This is what I would expect of Randleman. I think I'd put it at more like 10-12 years, judging by the amount of shoreline wood cover still there now in season 5, but the original point of the post is interesting. I am actually sorry it made the list at all. Randleman is getting a lot of press, and press = pressure. It's not as big as High Rock, Badin, Jordan, etc, so the extra boat traffic and the attention of large tournaments can hurt more. The irony is that when press brings more tournaments and pressure, it un-does that which brought the press to begin with... the down-home relaxed nature of the lake becomes yet another casualty to the big-boat, big money, big ego crowds. I have fished Randleman since day 1 (literally), and I have just recently noticed an upswing in many of the things I hate to see on any bass lake... mainly with regards to the people and behavior, as much as with numbers of boats.
<sigh> I guess it's just inevitable, and it will be interesting to see how things go.