Lake Chicot is the largest natural lake in Arkansas. - Photo by Corbet Deary of The Sentinel-Record
LAKE VILLAGE -- Lawanda Penick, owner of LJ's Cafe & Bait Shop in Lake Village, is worried about the next six months.
In any normal year, she'd be heading into a comfortable summer season selling bait and fishing supplies to local anglers. This year, however, a six-foot drawdown of Lake Chicot, which started Monday, may limit recreational fishers' ability to use the lake and affect her business -- the town's only bait shop.
"People don't come fishing, you can't prepare for it," Penick said.
Penick is one of a number of Lake Village residents who worry about the effects of the drawdown. Others welcome the lower lake level, which has ecological benefits that increase the game fish population in the lake.
Every five years, Lake Chicot is lowered by the U.S.
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