How did this post go from a "has anyone fished butla thread" to an arguement about water being let out and the lake dropping from 211 to 208 thread????? Last year on May 1 Butla was above curve at 210.6. We got no rain that month and the lake dropped to 208.5 by May 31. No rain in June to speak of and dropped to 207.7 by June 30. A very small amount of rain in July and up to 210.9 by July 31. That is a drop of 2.9 ft in 61 days which is an average of .05 a day. I to also have common sense and it is really hard for me to believe the gates were open at more than a trickle over these 2 months with this little loss of water. However you want to slice it though mother nature put Butla in bad shape last summer but she is returning the favor and helping Butla out this year.