No Access to PUBLIC water!

[Biggie]

Theres this certian tact of swampland that I fish and it just happens to be the best spot around for crappie. Well I decided I'd go fish it a couple hours this am after work. I get all the way out there and notice there is gate with a lock on it. I start calling around and come to find out all the land around the public water is privetly owned and they have decided to not allow access to this place. Can they do that? Dont they have to allow access to the state owned water? Im calling my TWRA agent for firts thing Monday.

[Bucktales]

If that were here, you HAVE to allow access to a state owned lake. NOt sure if things are different down there, but I would be doing some checking. Sometimes there will only be a 10 foot wide easement, but there should be access.

[hunt4fun1]

Yeah, bro,

I know a guy with property that has a large impoundment on it that was built by the Federal Government. No one knows it's there and even if they did, it's surrounded by private property so you can't get on it if you wanted to.

I agree, it sucks.

[deerslayer11]

They have to let you have access here. 6' of the bank of the lake here is public. As long as you got to the lake by way of public access you can stand in someones front yard fishing they cant say a word unless you get on thier pier. There are still a few stakes up showing where the private stops.

[hoythunter48]

i dont know abotu lakes and stuff but we hunt public land in ohio and there is this one patch of ground we was wanting to hunt but when we looked at our map its surrounded by private and one guy owns it all so we was gonna drive up to his house to ask him and was blocked by a big gate that had "no hunting dont ask" "beware of dog" "no trespassing" signs hung all over it so we gave up, we did get permission from the guy next to him to hunt on his property though and we asked him abotu it and he said he was a real ass

[GoTres]

From what I understand, lots of public land in states like Montana are completely surrounded by private land. The landowners can collect "trespass fees" to allow access to the public land. So I guess the landowner could also deny access to the public land by people crossing his property.

Granted that is federal land. State owned land might be different. In Texas, creeks and rivers are public property up to their natural waterline. You could wade all you want, but you're trespassing if you stand on the bank.

[hunt4fun1]

Yeah, Go....there are some issues with that very thing on the Guadalupe.

[flhuntress]

we were gonna go fishin' in the paddle boat down this one creek that flows into private land but out recently that it's considered to be private if both sides of the creek is private....which is a crock if you ask me cause we could have spent the day fishin' from the boat and havin' a blast.