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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:03 am
by Wingman
I haven't drove down there yet this season, but I would imagine all the adjoining land owners have the ramps locked up tight right now. Funny they sure don't mind you launching there form Feb-Oct to fish, but come duck season and everything is locked downed tighter than Fort Knox. Wish I had a PUBLIC oxbow that I could claim to be a private lake all to myself!
I hear they just closed the ramp on Flower Lake. Same situation: public lake with no public access. Wasp Lake is in the same shape. We lost our public boat ramp and now the only people with access are private landowners.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:21 am
by tombstone
Wingman wrote:I haven't drove down there yet this season, but I would imagine all the adjoining land owners have the ramps locked up tight right now. Funny they sure don't mind you launching there form Feb-Oct to fish, but come duck season and everything is locked downed tighter than Fort Knox. Wish I had a PUBLIC oxbow that I could claim to be a private lake all to myself!
I hear they just closed the ramp on Flower Lake. Same situation: public lake with no public access. Wasp Lake is in the same shape. We lost our public boat ramp and now the only people with access are private landowners.
Just tell every one to go to lake bobby reed. There are 2 ramps on this PUBLIC water partially funded by MDWFP
Forgive me for being so ignorant, but I just can't see how this is right
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:04 pm
by marshman
Jelly wrote:marshman wrote:I haven't drove down there yet this season, but I would imagine all the adjoining land owners have the ramps locked up tight right now. Funny they sure don't mind you launching there form Feb-Oct to fish, but come duck season and everything is locked downed tighter than Fort Knox. Wish I had a PUBLIC oxbow that I could claim to be a private lake all to myself!
What makes it public?, you should be thankful they let people fish the lake at all. They don't have to.
I was under the impression that if you own all the lannd around a lake, that made it private..
All the land around it is private, but that does'nt make the lake private. If there was a way in without tresspassing on private land then the local land owners couldn't say a thing about it.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:56 pm
by Jelly
marshman wrote:Jelly wrote:marshman wrote:I haven't drove down there yet this season, but I would imagine all the adjoining land owners have the ramps locked up tight right now. Funny they sure don't mind you launching there form Feb-Oct to fish, but come duck season and everything is locked downed tighter than Fort Knox. Wish I had a PUBLIC oxbow that I could claim to be a private lake all to myself!
What makes it public?, you should be thankful they let people fish the lake at all. They don't have to.
I was under the impression that if you own all the lannd around a lake, that made it private..
All the land around it is private, but that does'nt make the lake private. If there was a way in without tresspassing on private land then the local land owners couldn't say a thing about it.
that's what makes it private...
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:38 pm
by DUCKAHOLIC
I got a helicopter ......will travel
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:52 pm
by marshman
Jelly wrote:marshman wrote:Jelly wrote:marshman wrote:I haven't drove down there yet this season, but I would imagine all the adjoining land owners have the ramps locked up tight right now. Funny they sure don't mind you launching there form Feb-Oct to fish, but come duck season and everything is locked downed tighter than Fort Knox. Wish I had a PUBLIC oxbow that I could claim to be a private lake all to myself!
What makes it public?, you should be thankful they let people fish the lake at all. They don't have to.
I was under the impression that if you own all the lannd around a lake, that made it private..
All the land around it is private, but that does'nt make the lake private. If there was a way in without tresspassing on private land then the local land owners couldn't say a thing about it.
that's what makes it private...
May be private in your defination, but according to the law the water itself ain't! Just the land around it.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:47 pm
by Jelly
marshman wrote:Jelly wrote:marshman wrote:Jelly wrote:marshman wrote:I haven't drove down there yet this season, but I would imagine all the adjoining land owners have the ramps locked up tight right now. Funny they sure don't mind you launching there form Feb-Oct to fish, but come duck season and everything is locked downed tighter than Fort Knox. Wish I had a PUBLIC oxbow that I could claim to be a private lake all to myself!
What makes it public?, you should be thankful they let people fish the lake at all. They don't have to.
I was under the impression that if you own all the lannd around a lake, that made it private..
All the land around it is private, but that does'nt make the lake private. If there was a way in without tresspassing on private land then the local land owners couldn't say a thing about it.
that's what makes it private...
May be private in your defination, but according to the law the water itself ain't! Just the land around it.
What law? Isn't lake manor private becuase the land around it is private? Maybe I just don't understand, please explain..
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:13 pm
by marshman
See this topic from last year:
http://www.ducksouth.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=31114
Lots of reading but in short it says that an oxbow lake of the Mississippi is a public waterway, however if someone has to tresspass to gain access to the waterway then he would be breaking the law. Lake Jackson falls into this catagory. I believe Wingman, after checking into it even states that somewhere in one of the pages.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:41 am
by Jelly
I think I see the problem. Lake Jackson is not an oxbow, it's landlocked. Washington is not an oxbow but is a "state" lake with public access.
It was an oxbow at one time just like Lee, Ferguson, whittington, etc..
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:06 am
by marshman
Correct, Lee and Washington are both oxbows with private land all around but they do have public access. Actually Lake Jackson is still considered an oxbow. I guess the landowners in that area hope and pray the MDWFP never decides to build a public ramp there.
Anyway glad you had a good hunt there. Never fished there but it looks good.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:50 am
by Jelly
i gotcha, i was under the impression that an oxbow was still connected to the river, ie, inside the levee. Good hunting...
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:20 am
by Warren
well the land all around is private so untill they do put a ramp in you can't go there with out permission...so what is the arguing over
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:02 pm
by marshman
Warren wrote:well the land all around is private so untill they do put a ramp in you can't go there with out permission...so what is the arguing over
Not arguing with anyone Warren, just stating it must be nice to have a public waterway with no public acess as your own personal duck hole. I guess if I was one of the few lucky landowners around Lake Jackson I'd be singing a different tune.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:46 pm
by TWR
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:20 pm
by marshman
What is east about a mile?