as i see it right now. i see several posts about getting 'a long way from the main lake' to find fish. with butla as high as it is, the fish have a very wide area to scatter to. and there are places where a man can go and wade or possibly get to in a boat. however, lots of these places are well outside of the reservoir boundary. i know from personal experience that if you go outside the boundary and fish and the right person comes along that it can turn into trouble. several years back i was fishing up a creek channel, and two other fellows came along fishing as well. i recognized one of them right off. as it turned out, i was "well outside the boundary" as green jeans put it, but i was given a courtesy and they went about their way. i made my way back towards the corp boundary after that, but not before hitting a willow fallen off the bank into the water. i smacked 'em pretty good and left.
a few days later i was up the same creek again, but inside the line. there was a man sitting on the bank fishing. i began a conversation and he turned out to be the owner of the land adjacent the the corp land where i had been a few days before. he would drive his truck in the field and walk in a piece and fish. i had seen him before but never talked to him. told him the story about the warden. he told me "yeah them boys say they aint catching no fish up there, but they go up in there and stay for hours. tell ya what, you go fish up there all you want and if they say something tell 'em i said it was ok." it was a good spring after that.
anyways, my point is, make sure of where you are. just cause water is there doesn't mean you aren't supposed to have permission. there are many an acre of flooded, wade-able land right now outside the boundary at butta. just my opinion.