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 Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: fishrdude]
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06/04/20 04:14 PM
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BillS2006
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It's amazing how something so simple is being over thought and becoming complicated.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: fishrdude]
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06/04/20 04:31 PM
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DLALLDER
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CONTROL,CONTROL, & CONTROL, that what it is all about. MOST GW's that I have ever talked to have common sense and use it. Gw's have the authority to enforce any law they want to and the latitude to turn a head when they want to. Example, unless it has changed, all Federal lake require a paddle in your boat, when was the last time, if ever have you had to show it?
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: T- Gil]
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06/04/20 04:36 PM
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bronco71
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No, it is not legal. Get caught by a Game Warden and learn the hard way.
Guides do it as they advertise they do it as a service.
Get caught on the way home and see who gets the ticket. From the Outdoor Annual: "In order to verify length and species, a fish caught may not have the head or tail removed and may not be filleted until an angler finally lands the catch on the mainland, a peninsula, or barrier island not including jetties or piers and does not transport the catch by boat." They can be transported away from the water filleted. Until recently, I thought the same as you, but looked it up. Makes sense. Too many variables once you leave the lake, to cloud things. pretty sure the ramp is on the mainland, just don't transport the fillets by boat after that...
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: fishrdude]
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06/04/20 05:13 PM
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spacejunkie
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Had a guy yesterday on Choke pull up to the cleaning station and dump a bunch of fish. Guess he cleaned them on the water as he took the load out of his boat. And yes they were bass with a couple of good ones in the batch. 
Last edited by spacejunkie; 06/04/20 05:13 PM.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: fishrdude]
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06/04/20 05:44 PM
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Bobby Milam
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Legal to do on land. Illegal on the water. Never heard anything saying it was legal or illegal to dump remains back in but assume that since it is food for other fish it would not be littering.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
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06/04/20 07:29 PM
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blackhorse
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I called the Game Warden in Bosque county and according to him it is perfectly legal to dump carcasses into the lake. Just don’t throw them on the shore which would be littering
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: FishTheBite]
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06/04/20 08:59 PM
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T Bird
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Many of our state parks have fish cleaning stations in the park. If it was illegal to clean and transport fish I don't think they would be there.
Sadly for me the lakes I fish are Corp lakes with Corp parks. I sure wish the Corp would spend some of my tax money and install cleaning stations. They (Corp) can't/won't even maintain the courtesy docks. Darn shame.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: FishDFly]
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06/05/20 11:25 AM
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Dubee
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No, it is not legal. Get caught by a Game Warden and learn the hard way.
Guides do it as they advertise they do it as a service.
Get caught on the way home and see who gets the ticket. It is absolutely legal
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: Treybiz]
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06/05/20 12:50 PM
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SteezMacQueen
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So, we had a big blow up at our neighborhood ramp (on whitney) about this a few weeks ago... I'm under the impression it's legal and it really doesn't bother me* since I'm sure it's food for other species in the lake.. Although I take mine home and let the racoons/pigs have them.. But, it bothers me when the guide literally throws them right where my kids are swimming (along with about 20 other kids).
I don’t keep fish, so I don’t have a dog in this hunt. But! Why are your kids swimming in a nonswimming designated area? There are NO FISH CLEANING stations on a swim beach.
Eat. Sleep. Fish.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
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06/05/20 01:28 PM
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Treybiz
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So, we had a big blow up at our neighborhood ramp (on whitney) about this a few weeks ago... I'm under the impression it's legal and it really doesn't bother me* since I'm sure it's food for other species in the lake.. Although I take mine home and let the racoons/pigs have them.. But, it bothers me when the guide literally throws them right where my kids are swimming (along with about 20 other kids).
I don’t keep fish, so I don’t have a dog in this hunt. But! Why are your kids swimming in a nonswimming designated area? There are NO FISH CLEANING stations on a swim beach. It's not non-swimming designated to my knowledge (it's not in a park... it's in a neighborhood not sure if that matters). Heck I've been swimming there for 28 years since my folks built the place.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: fishrdude]
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06/05/20 05:11 PM
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Gray_Ghost9
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I was told 2 summers ago by a guide at Lavon lake the rules changed there and no one could clean fish at the lake nor drop remains in lake or they would get a ticket.
I could not find any information on it but, was not worried since I don't clean my fish there.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: FishTheBite]
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06/05/20 06:20 PM
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JAlfred
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Many of our state parks have fish cleaning stations in the park. If it was illegal to clean and transport fish I don't think they would be there.
Sadly for me the lakes I fish are Corp lakes with Corp parks. I sure wish the Corp would spend some of my tax money and install cleaning stations. Granger had cleaning stations when I fished there many years ago. Did they remove them?
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: JAlfred]
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06/05/20 09:45 PM
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FishTheBite
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Many of our state parks have fish cleaning stations in the park. If it was illegal to clean and transport fish I don't think they would be there.
Sadly for me the lakes I fish are Corp lakes with Corp parks. I sure wish the Corp would spend some of my tax money and install cleaning stations. Granger had cleaning stations when I fished there many years ago. Did they remove them? I don’t fish Granger so I don’t know.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: T Bird]
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06/05/20 09:48 PM
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FishTheBite
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Many of our state parks have fish cleaning stations in the park. If it was illegal to clean and transport fish I don't think they would be there.
Sadly for me the lakes I fish are Corp lakes with Corp parks. I sure wish the Corp would spend some of my tax money and install cleaning stations. They (Corp) can't/won't even maintain the courtesy docks. Darn shame. I know of a courtesy dock that has been 100’ from the water due to flooding for a year now.
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Re: Cleaning fish at the lake
[Re: fishrdude]
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06/05/20 10:00 PM
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chireno
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My parents live on Toledo Bend. They have a fish cleaning table. All carcasses are placed in 5 gallon buckett. Next trip out, usually same day or next morning, buckett goes with us in boat and it's dumped out on lake but, minimum 500 yards away from shore. They have several Eagles near their home that take care of a lot of the trimmings as well as turtles.
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