re: Fishing/boating on someone else’s property to remain illegal

I am aware of the law, but I don’t agree with it nor will I abide by it. Gate or no gate if I want to go somewhere fishing and the water is tidal and it doesn’t appear to be man made I will go.

Only something truly man made should be private. If it was made by Mother Nature it should be public.

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I’ve seen too many people fish a hole dry or shoot every deer in a block of woods and then sit on their butts and bitch that there aren’t any fish or deer. If they could catch or shoot a hundred in a day they would with no thought for tomorrow. They just don’t care.

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What in the world are you babbling about regarding fishing a hole dry? How is that applicable here?

Oh I’m sorry I though we been discussing water ways not land. If I was to be talking about land I would have said that and not water.

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I’m not disputing you about bayous and open water being public. You’re right, that shouldn’t be restricted.

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Why? The same legal reasoning applies to a bank that's been eroded over time into a bay as it does to a canal that was cut by a landowner allowing tidal water into a previously landlocked pond. I don't see how you could support access to one and not the other. At some point the landowner cut or allowed to be cut the canal that allowed tidal water onto the property and further erosion. The other landowner simply watched his bank recede through no fault of his own.

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It’s a resource to be maintained. It can be depleted like any other.

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How does one maintain the marsh?

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Artificial vs. Natural. That’s all you need to say.

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So in your opinion the landowner who actively encouraged the issue should be rewarded and the one who was just a victim of circumstance should lose his property?

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Only something truly man made should be private. If it was made by Mother Nature it should be public.

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Hold up. So you are in fact saying that there should be no such thing as a privately owned river, stream, canal, bayou, etc., unless it’s man-made?

Are you serious? You think every single naturally occurring body of water should be open to the public?

Politicians bought and paid for by the rich land owners.

"It’s a resource to be maintained. It can be depleted like any other."

That is about one of the dumbest things I have heard today. Hunting, I might give it some consideration but fishing...... The public fish that are caught, will be replaced with other public fish. Fish might not be that smart, but they are smart enough to swim past a gate. Conveniently, none of these gates are solid barriers.

They are selling public resources to be able to afford their taxes / profit. I think I might make a cut through road on some of my property between two major roads here in baton rouge and lease access to the road. You think the city would maintain the road for me? I'll even put in some ditches on either side of the road, you think the city is going to maintain those ditches and do restoration projects for me from the erosion it might cause?


I still take the stand that if a canal is private, it should have a dam built across it to not only lock out the public but to also lock out any public resources, or any access gate must be solid, marked with hazard lighting and only be opened for entry and exit.