Yeah the Big Lake ordeal was orchestrated by the state. According to the game warden, driving the airboat transporting the Jr Engineers to the north end, they were trying to keep the ducks from going south to the BP oil spill area. As all of this was happening they allowed the north end of the lake to backfill with silt. You can't get 100 yards from the boat ramp at Timms point without bottoming out. It kills me they just leave it that way.