Just after the paystation, if you leave the paved road and take the graveldirt side road straight ahead and then park below the dam near the spillway, you can walk back over the paved road to the main lake a couple hundred yards and you will be at bank fishable crappie stumps in 10 feet or so of water. If you're there just at the time of year crappie happen to be in water <10 feet, you might have as good of waters as any boater.