re: Gating canals in houma area

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Not sure where that's at.

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good, let's keep it that way

I'm just kidding. We have a gate so it's not like you could get on our lease anyway

It's been years since I've seen a kayak where I fish.


Eta: "your side" I don't associate with those frickbois in Dularge FWIW.

You out of Dulac?

Found a new kayak spot over that way and can't tell if it's private or not. Guess I'll find out eventually.

That bourg property is stacked with reds. Just run north of sister lake and you'll hit the canal network.

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the property I legally own

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it's not like you could get on our lease anyway

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Do you own the land you gated or did you put up a gate on leased land? I only ask because it seems like own and leased are being used interchangeably throughout this thread and I feel like they are two totaly different things. Just because I lease land from delacroixe corp it does not give me the right to set up gates and run people out who are fishing on the lease.

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I understand some leases allow the leasee to make improvements, but they really don't have much legal claim to the land. I would think most leases can be pulled/broken with the quickness based on the whims of the true landowner. It happens all the time.

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Just because I lease land from delacroixe corp it does not give me the right to set up gates and run people out who are fishing on the lease.

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Do you not put up gates on your deer lease? And speaking of Delacroix Corp, I was out there this year and it appears they aren't maintaining their shoreline according to the law. Perhaps when the state starts cracking down on them for not doing their shoreline maintenance they will begin to limit access.

Damn baw, we're neighbors

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You should buy Alx a Bud Ice. I think that's what people from Alexandria drink, and Alx could reminisce on intimate times with certain other Alexandria residents/family members.

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Oh, and frick you for this part.

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I've never paddled past a sign. but there don't really need to be signs for it to be a trespass. if none, that's where the officer discretion comes in. those guys do not want to give you a ticket, but if you're being an a-hole obviously trespassing on posted property, they will.

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I agree with you but the point I'm trying to make is, officer discretion aside, there is no difference. Trespassing is trespassing, the law doesn't make a distinction between accidental and intentional. There isn't a level of trespassing you must meet to get a ticket.

The problem at it's core is the ability to protect yourself from accidentally becoming a criminal. The nice guy who gave me written permission a few years ago could have pressed charges just as easily. I had zero reason to believe the area I was in was private. Hundreds of hours of research and never once did I find any evidence of it being private property, it turned out to be but if I couldn't find out how is someone with less resources supposed to know? So where does that leave us? What about my children?

Let's look at all of Lafourche parish. We have PAC that is about 30k acres, a lot of which is in Terrebonne parish. We have Forenation islands. Some public land north of HWY 1 up to around the Southwestern canal. That's it as far as shallow water fishing goes. You can sink shite in deep canals for trout or reds but if you want to sight cast shallow water, that's all you got.

If we go a little further west, we have Terrebonne parish. That has a little sliver of state land that's about 1,500 acres and that's it outside of what little PAC crosses the parish line. That's all for Terrebonne. The whole parish which is home to roughly half a MILLION acres of marsh.

St Bernard Parish has Biloxi WMA, and nothing else. You could pole banks of a few lakes or canals but you can not enter the marsh. Delacroix is a fricking mess. They have lost tens of thousands of acres of land, all of it private, all of the restoration being funded by the public. Most of it because of the land corps exploration and transportation canals, which they profited from the destruction.

This is just the tip of the ice berg.