I have always preferred a very slow rise or fall with a river. KY Lake is another entire ball of wax, as stated before KY dam is always discharging or pulling water. The fish react differently to the different discharge rates. Once rates get to the 80,000+ cfs (cubic feet per second ), the fish will begin to relate to more structure. When it gets into the 125,000+ cfs, they will have a safety harness tethering themselves off to the structure! On the low end, last spring we began a drought with hardly any rains to speak of. The dam was only pulling 10,000 to 15,000 it seemed for months. This really hurt the water quality, and into the fall had pushed the fish to the very bottom. We caught fish with mud on their bellies.
As 'MO stated, hard pulling will suck them back out to deeper water, and a rise will send them more shallow. But they like it here on the big lakes with good current regardless of time of year!

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