There was pheasant hunting, but the drought kind of ended that, for the most part.
There is still some deer and pronghorn hunting.
The last time I saw Lake Meredith, it didn't look like much. Whatever you do, don't bother going fishing at Lake Optima near Hardesty, Oklahoma.
http://www.abandonedok.com/optima-lake-state-park/ It was a big joke when they built it and a bigger joke now. Of course, they confiscated several thousand acres of land from its owners by the use of eminent domain as part of the big joke.
A little more about Lake Optima. It was built by the Army Corps of Engineers and is, I think, their biggest failure ever. At the time they were building it, they projected that it would hold X acrefeet of water where X was some pretty large number. In this area, that was commonly jokingly said to mean that the lake would cover X acres of water one foot deep.
The April 1 issue of the Guymon Daily Herald from 1979 (I think) had a front page story about how the world's foremost dryland fisherman (a businessman in Guymon) was fishing in the middle of Lake Optima and threw his cigarette overboard. The cigarette caught the grass on fire and someone called the fire department which showed up and put the grass out, filling the lake to capacity in the process. The article then went on to say that the lake quickly became popular for its watersports and had so many people that they had to appoint a cop to enforce laws at the lake -- his name was Charlie Tuna. It reported that he wrote so many tickets the first day that he became known as "Chicken of the Sea".
I suspect that the water level today is probably around a foot deep but doesn't cover very many acres.
