These lakes are for flood control PERIOD. Most Corps and TVA big wheels don't know or care there are fish in the lakes. Somewhere in a room in front of a monitor, some person is projecting rainfall a couple of hundred miles south and east of us.The lake levels are managed according to what a weatherman is saying and they are typically wrong 80+% of the time.
For that, we get to tend with mud flats and sandbars. I'm glad I can set my depth off-set and shallow water warning on my LakeMaster cards.