I tend to disagree with the drawdown. I caught my very first fish on Talquin about 50 years ago. I can remember as a teenager catching bedding shellcrackers that were 2 lbs. Then they had the first drawdown in 1983. The shellcrackers have not came back to the 2 lb size consistently since that initial drawdown. The drawdown they did when they shut the lake down until April was the only drawdown that I saw benefit from. Just my opinion.