I agree. Except the easement. Then you will have a real problem with trash and people tearing up land

Tell that to the Lake Mcqueeney HOA!

most corp of engineer lakes do have an easement around them...if I understand it correctly,you can only own the land to the highwater mark and you can only put a dock there with corp's permission...I'm not sure if person can beach his boat and fish from the shore anywhere on the lake but I think he can.....

Most of the areas they are talking about are swamp and marsh land. These aren't clean lake shores.

Lake Theriot is a public lake surrounded by private owned marsh in south Louisiana. The only access to it is through gated canals. So it�s a situation where the public can�t access public land because of the current laws.

I would agree with you .

The skipper is right. It is soley greed driving this.

Lots of places I fished as a kid are now gated off because landowners wanted the fish for themselves.

There are areas in the salt marshes that look like huge bays or lakes and you can be cited for trespassing in the middle of the lake. Those that own the oyster beds apparently own the water on top of them.

Then after courts have sided with landowners time and time again, these lake bottom owners began leasing fishing rights to navigable waterways.

I believe what started this is the crawfishing years ago. Land that is dry for most of the year floods in the Spring. So people look at it as private land that is flooded. Then crawfishermen show up each spring as the waters rise and put a trap on almost every tree. Fishermen and landowners have been in the courts forever.

Its like your yard flooding and then someone anchoring their boat in your front yard saying you don't own the water.

I know it shouldnt be as simple as saying if you can float your boat there it should be open to the public, but there needs to be something in the middle.

At no point in time should they be able to put up gates. If you want to keep the fish, build an earthen dam.

There are guides that fish behind the gates and on leased water over oyster reefs. I will never fish with either.

It is really a shame what the Sportsman's Paradise has become.

agree that you should not be able to fence off public water...if you want private water,build you a dam and dig you a well or let God fill it up with rainwater....

Sadly this is a major problem. This video was just taken. https://www.facebook.com/danny.pool.908/videos/1701824539885540/

Either that link doesn't work or its been taken down..

All work just fine from my phone as of 30 seconds mb ds ago.

It worked but I'm not on Facebook so you can't watch it