Announcing closure of Cland tailwaters

[HURRICANEBOB]

Got it!

Sit way back from the dam, and launch a remote controlled battery powered 2 foot boat that will carry your lure or live bait up to the dam and drop it.

If the toy boat gets sunk, call it in and report another hampster operator and mouse passenger lost to the tailwaters. :-)

Before long, small rodents won't be able to operate watercraft on corps lakes anymore. LMAOROF.

[kygorski]

I forgot what dam it was, somewhere in alabama maybe, where they used radio controlled boats to fish in the tail waters. You know they can't outlaw stupitity, they they can make it against the law to do stupid things. Boating can become dangerous sometimes, I know I was darn lucky to out run a storm on lake michigan, if I would have paid attention to the NOAH radio it wouldn't have happened.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Can warning signals at dams help to reduce such occurences? Since power generation schedules can "change without notice", as noted on this page, then what warning signal exists to alert prudent fisherman, aware of the posted schedule for generation, and that gives adequate warning for a prudent person to avoid that danger when an unannounced change that introduces an unforecasted risk occurs?

COE Lake Cumberland Facebook page quote:
Here is Lake Cumberland's lake elevation and generation schedule for December 4, 2012! As of 12 AM the headwater elevation is 681.86 feet above MSL and the tailwater elevation is 545.66 feet above MSL. There generation schedule for today for from 6 AM until 9 AM and 5 PM until 9 PM. [U]Please remember this is subject to change without notice or warning.[/U] WEAR IT!

I'm starting to understand more of this problem, how many have died at dams, because they thought they knew the "rules" for the day? Was there advanced warning of a generation schedule change, was their an alarm or siren, that could have warned an angler the "rules for the day just changed".