We learned years ago that the state will never accept responsibility for what they do or fail to do . Case in point 16 or so years ago my brother a friend and myself set our boat in below the dam to do a little fishing . At that time the TPWD fishing rule book said that the State of Texas controlled the water from the dam down too Shawnee creek so to stay legal I whooped out my trusty GPS and started tracking our drifts so we would not venture into Oklahoma waters and break the law . After not much more than an hour or so we decided we would head over to Ray Roberts because with no flow the river was all but dead , after we had loaded the boat and were about to leave we were blocked by Oklahoma wildlife and ordered to produce our fishing license which we gladly did ,after that they said they needed our drivers license also and said we had committed a violation and we were all getting tickets and we asked for what and they said for fishing Oklahoma waters without their license . So I pulled out the TPWD manual and showed them what Texas had printed about Texas waters down to Shawnee creek , then one of them spoke up and said we had gone past Shawnee that they had watched us . Then I remembered I had been tracking with my GPS and I showed it to them which basically said they were lying this made them real mad and one of them that was beet red in the face kept fingering his gun which made us plenty nervous . Then they started to get madder and said that only by their graces That Texans were allowed to fish in the river . In the end they said we would not get our drivers or fishing license back until we followed them to a store and gave them several hundred dollars worth of money orders to get them back . Later over the next couple of weeks of talking to the state of Texas they basically said they were not liable and would not pay our fines because we followed their printed rules but after that year the book was changed and the state put "from the Texas Bank" after that . All three of us have never been back and never will .

We learned years ago that the state will never accept responsibility for what they do or fail to do . Case in point 16 or so years ago my brother a friend and myself set our boat in below the dam to do a little fishing . At that time the TPWD fishing rule book said that the State of Texas controlled the water from the dam down too Shawnee creek so to stay legal I whooped out my trusty GPS and started tracking our drifts so we would not venture into Oklahoma waters and break the law . After not much more than an hour or so we decided we would head over to Ray Roberts because with no flow the river was all but dead , after we had loaded the boat and were about to leave we were blocked by Oklahoma wildlife and ordered to produce our fishing license which we gladly did ,after that they said they needed our drivers license also and said we had committed a violation and we were all getting tickets and we asked for what and they said for fishing Oklahoma waters without their license . So I pulled out the TPWD manual and showed them what Texas had printed about Texas waters down to Shawnee creek , then one of them spoke up and said we had gone past Shawnee that they had watched us . Then I remembered I had been tracking with my GPS and I showed it to them which basically said they were lying this made them real mad and one of them that was beet red in the face kept fingering his gun which made us plenty nervous . Then they started to get madder and said that only by their graces That Texans were allowed to fish in the river . In the end they said we would not get our drivers or fishing license back until we followed them to a store and gave them several hundred dollars worth of money orders to get them back . Later over the next couple of weeks of talking to the state of Texas they basically said they were not liable and would not pay our fines because we followed their printed rules but after that year the book was changed and the state put "from the Texas Bank" after that . All three of us have never been back and never will .