so DAN what have you been catching in this privater tank???the way I read your postif you fished every weekend for the last 9 months you should be issued approx 36 tickets for NO TRESPASSINGthe owner might have been stocking this pond'maybe you should pay for the fish you have removed

If you want to access a pond regardless of where it is located, contact the owner of the property (can be done at the tax office) and get written permission from the landowner.

It is no different to have someone come onto your property, set up a campsite, tent, campfire, in your front yard in front of your house and relax in a hammock or lawn chair...it is trespassing. If that landowner gave you permission, then you would be legal to set up a campsite or fish their pond, otherwise, it is trespassing.

That's one reason why there is so little access to so many farm ponds not to mention hunting throughout the state since others did not take care of the land they were given permission on (not saying you didn't, because you did gather trash before you left) but by others or didn't abide by the landowners 'do's and don'ts' or thought you could just meander on the land since it wasn't posted or signed...it doesn't have to be in Texas.

Landowners just don't want to deal with the hassle anymore, or at least some of them do not, plus the possibility of the ones on their land sueing them for an accident, sting, bite, broken this or that, etc.

You can go to jail just for saying "give me a million bucks" wow..what is this place coming to?

LOL! LOL! LOL! I'm Dyin' here....DYIN'!!!!!! LOL! LOL!

Uhhhhhhhhhh...he left out the part about holding the snub-nose .38 at gut level while making the statement!

lol

For you fellers who think that us cops are only out to screw the little man and not worry about the big criminals should really get out on the street and do our job. It pisses me off every time some one complains that a cop is doing their job. OK so they aren't always so friendly about it, we have bad days too. Every call is important to the person that calls it in. They want something done and it�s the officer�s job to see that through. It may seem minor to you, but someone thought that it was important enough to report it. Put it in perspective. I am an avid outdoorsman and believe that every person should follow the law. Learn the law or ask someone before you go out and do it. And posting on here is not always a great idea, I�ve seen several posts with bad info on the law.

If the sign was there the sign was there and you are in the wrong. Just because you have been fishing there for 9 months or a lifetime doesn�t make it legal. A private lake or pond does not count as navigable water unless it has a public access point, and I don�t mean just some place that you can get to it. Only lake designated as public are for public use. Everything else is private and someone, somewhere owns it and may not want you on it.

BTW a criminal trespass offense of that nature is a class B misdemeanor.

Read more on the law here.

Offenses Agaist the Property-Texas Penal Code Chp 30

I guess we know where you stand OFFICER!
Wondering, did you view this while you were at work?

Actually I did view this at work. Check the time... I was at lunch.

Did my first post make me sound like an A$$????

yes

Not to me, I can understand where you was coming from. Believe me, there are some great looking ponds near my residence that have no tresspassing signs and I wouldn't dare fish them without permission. But that's just me.

We use "having a bad day" as a gneral term. Kinda hard to be nice to some one who wants to argue with you over a speeding ticket when you just got done pulling a car out from under a bus because they were speeding and ran a red light. Some folks just dont get it.

Sorry to say but you are blowing smoke in the wind, some just have a malfunction.....

That's it.