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re: Is there an etiquette while fishing docks?

Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:17 am to
Posted by gorillacoco
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:17 am to
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And if it is, and you can't reach it from the river, it's private property. Not public. Which means the old man is right and you are technically trespassing.


if salmon can legally launch his boat, he can float his boat on the lake wherever he wants (unless there is a man-made canal that is owned on both sides and can be closed off). unless i really misunderstand louisiana law.
Posted by The Last Coco
On the water
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:18 am to
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Here chad I'll help. I'm assuming this is along Red River. And if it is, and you can't reach it from the river, it's private property. Not public. Which means the old man is right and you are technically trespassing. You'd need to see the plots, but I'd be willing to bet he didn't build that dock on his neighbors property. I think we all agree about trespassers on this board...


If you have access to the lake, you have access to fish anywhere on the lake that is accessible by boat/kayak. The guy even admitted we weren't illegal just called it a "social etiquette" thing (his words not mine). We never stepped on his land or his dock, we cast underneath it from a watercraft.
Posted by JAB528
The Mexican Ocean
Member since Jun 2012
16870 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:18 am to
If you can access it from a public waterway, it is too, a public waterway in the state of louisiana.
Posted by gorillacoco
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2009
5318 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:18 am to
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The guy even admitted we weren't illegal just called it a "social etiquette"


boom roasted
Posted by faxis
La.
Member since Oct 2007
7773 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:19 am to
Depends on what you mean by legal access. If that's rights granted by a landowner and you entered from his property, technically you can only fish his portion of the lake. Now normally what you get is the landowners all just kinda agree to share it, but if one of them wants to keep his honey hole for himself, he can. And you might be hearing from the guy that let you fish there about it if that guy gave him a call.

Now if you got there via the river, he can go frick himself.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81604 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:19 am to
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and you can't reach it from the river, it's private property. Not public.
Speaking of. What about that lake at St. Maurice? Not accessable prior to lock and damn. Now is?
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
166135 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:20 am to
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The guy even admitted we weren't illegal just called it a "social etiquette" thing (his words not mine).


who me? I'm not knowledgeable on what's legal or not.
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83524 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:21 am to
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If that's rights granted by a landowner and you entered from his property, technically you can only fish his portion of the lake.


his portion of the lake?
Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
166135 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:21 am to
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his portion of the lake?




don't some camps plot extend into waters?
Posted by gorillacoco
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2009
5318 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:21 am to
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technically you can only fish his portion of the lake


if this is true (not sure if serious) has it ever been enforced ever?
Posted by gorillacoco
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2009
5318 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:22 am to
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who me?


i don't even know who i was roasting i just wanted to say it.
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
166135 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:22 am to
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has it ever been enforced ever?



old man enforced it bro, were you not reading it?
Posted by gorillacoco
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2009
5318 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:22 am to
Posted by dawg23
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Jul 2011
5065 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:23 am to
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okay now youre just running out of material.



There's no reason, legally or etiquettally (add that one to the OB lexicon), to avoid fishing a pier on public waters that is not already being fished.

I'm wondering if Chadboy is the pier owner who prompted the OP to post.
This post was edited on 5/8/13 at 10:24 am
Posted by JAB528
The Mexican Ocean
Member since Jun 2012
16870 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:23 am to
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don't some camps plot extend into waters?


Yes, but if the land is flooded for a certain period of time, it becomes state property.
Posted by faxis
La.
Member since Oct 2007
7773 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:23 am to
If you can reach it by boat, it's game on. You can't set foot out of the boat though.

Had this conversation with WL&F agents coming out of the Army Ammo plant on Dorcheat with a couple limits of ducks one day. Since we waded, we were trespassing. Had we gone in in boats, they couldn't do a thing about it.

Got a nice certified letter from the army to back that up telling me to frick off shooting their ducks.
Posted by The Last Coco
On the water
Member since Mar 2009
6840 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:23 am to
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who me?


No, the guy bitching at us. He used the words "social etiquette" and when Salmon told him we weren't illegal he said he knew that but asked if we had ever heard of "social etiquette"
Posted by Crawdaddy
Slidell. The jewel of Louisiana
Member since Sep 2006
18364 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:23 am to
post on La sportsman the dock location and explain how hot that spot is. Post you left with the fish biting.

That guy will be stacked with boats at his dock this weekend
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83524 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:23 am to
like we said, the guy admitted he did not own the lake, or any portion of the lake, he just thought it was rude of us to be fishing around his dock

but he used a few more "fricks" to get his point across
Posted by JAB528
The Mexican Ocean
Member since Jun 2012
16870 posts
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:24 am to
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