re: Gating canals in houma area

this entire issue is ridiculous. I have a lease in orange grove. We have several areas that people can access the lease. All of which are gated or blocked by drums. It is a constant battle keeping people out. Not only bass fisherman, but people frogging as well. I do not understand, that if an area is posted, clearly marked, how people think that they have a right to trespass it and have a viable argument? Total and complete BS. I truly believe that if people would have just stayed out of the marsh and stopped arguing and fighting with the land owners, then none of this stuff would be happening. It's aggravating to me because, if they do, for instance block of 70 mile and the blue bird, that would be upsetting to me because I've fished there for my entire life. I've never once entered the marsh, though, except on my personal lease.

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You really don't seem capable of understanding any of this.

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Maybe, but neither do you. How does a drainage canal built by the parish on private property to drain false river into another bayou have anything, at all, to do with canals in the marsh?

I honestly believe you're being annoying just for sake of being annoying.

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I do not understand, that if an area is posted, clearly marked, how people think that they have a right to trespass it and have a viable argument?

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What would happen if the state pulled all public funding for restoration in that area? Do you think you could afford to foot the bill? Because that's what is about to happen if something doesn't change.

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What would happen if the state pulled all public funding for restoration in that area? Do you think you could afford to foot the bill? Because that's what is about to happen if something doesn't change.

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What are you even talking about?

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Cannot do this without Army Corps approval, they won't approve it without the canal being deemed private.

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OK, so who deems the canal as being private? Doesn't that designation and decision settle the issue? If someone dug out for a large pond on private property and then installed a culvert to allow water from a public waterway to flow in and fill up the pond, is that pond private or public? Seems to me like the pond would be private?

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What are you even talking about?

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I am talking about...

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What would happen if the state pulled all public funding for restoration in that area? Do you think you could afford to foot the bill? Because that's what is about to happen if something doesn't change.

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For example, if you owned property in that area and the state stopped funding coastal restoration, what would happen? Would your marsh become open water?

I don't understand why you have such a hard time understanding the question.

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For example, if you owned property in that area and the state stopped funding coastal restoration, what would happen? Would your marsh become open water?

I don't understand why you have such a hard time understanding the question.

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How does that in any way relate to your desire to continue trespassing on private property?

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How does that in any way relate to your desire to continue trespassing on private property?

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If I'm paying for it, I'm using it. Agree or disagree, there isn't really a goddamn thing you can do about it. More and more people everyday are tired of being run out of the marsh.

If we can't use it, then why bother?

Thank you ... The second your boat hits the water at Bob's bayou black marina you are trespassing ... You can't travel to "public water" without trespassing..

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Seems to me like the pond would be private?

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From my understanding, it would 100% be private, but you would have to have a fishing license to fish it. If it was not connected and stocked with fish you put there privately, you would not have to have a license.

This whole argument is based in the fact that people are so familiar with using certain areas for their recreational fishing. Pretty much all marsh is private land and if anyone wants to keep you out of 95% of it, they can. But we are so accustomed to no one caring or putting in enough effort to actually keep people out, we have several generations who feel like they have the right to the place because they've always done it.

You can 100% argue that private canals are damaging to the marsh and if you want to take that up to a state level and demand that those who created and own them pay up, that's fine. But it doesn't give you the right to use them.

The whole "no other state deals with this" argument doesn't work all that well, because name another state that has private canals like this. Most states probably won't let someone cut up the wetlands in the first place.

I also think the viewpoint is skewed due to it being wetlands/uninhabited area. If I lived in the middle of solid land and had 100 acres (let's say in Baton Rouge this was somehow possible), then dug a 20 acre pond right in the middle and connected it to the bayou with a small canal(with all permits and such), you think you'd have the right to come into my pond? You most likely wouldn't even think of it. But people are just accustomed to doing just that in the marsh.