The Corps folks will tell you the lakes are for flood control and nothing else. They, for the most part, could care less about fishermen. Let some politician get his drawers in a wad over hydrilla around his dock or a resort owner get upset over something and see how quickly they take care of that.

We fishermen just don't count most of the time even though they were going to barricade off the tailwaters below the dams here and we got politicians on our side and the corps backed off. Of course that was an election year also.