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So if touching the bottom of a creek or lake is trespassing then it would follow that wade fishing is trespassing. There is the precedence to outlaw shuffling. Of course it would also outlaw most wading but hey a person can't have it all. I don't see how a land grant from the king of england can be enforced in our court system. Once the US kicked England out the grants were worthless but, then what can be expected out of a bunch of lawyers. Anyway I see a lot of holes in your argument but thats what makes a horse race.

I guess anything in excess will kill ya. I don't think I would worry to much about the BBQ grill tho. There are a lot more dangerous things out there like fast moving boats and cars. Car accidents kill more people every year than cigarettes do but you don't see people being paranoid about driving. I am not defending cigarettes. I don't smoke. I just don't think BBQ smoke is a high priority health hazard. Cant compare a house fire to a BBQ. Most people who die of smoke inhalation in a house or business fire are over come by toxic fumes from plastics, rubber, chemicals and items such as that, not burning wood or charcoal.

I agree bows and browns can co-exist in the same fishery. What I mean is if all of the effort is put into managing the brown trout are bows going to be swept under the rug so to speak. Personally I like the bows more than the browns but, that is just my preference.

ROFL Terry.

It is getting out of hand for sure. There should be a limit. We have speed limits and size restrictions on all roads in this country why aren't there speed limits and size restrictions on the lakes? It is getting crazy and downright dangerous out there.

I myself would rather catch a 5 pound bow over a 10 lb brown just like I would rather catch a 5 lb SMB over a 8 lb LMB. I am just curious with all the hype about making Taney a world class brown trout fishery what is going to happen to the bows.

I stand for what I say too. I don't use Pepsi products and haven't for years. I meant the part about arguing about anything. I was just joking around about that.

I don't think so. People have strange ideas about smoke. Some are so scared of smoke they worry about breathing the smoke from a BBQ grill others are terrified of cigarette smoke but smoke pot like there wont be any next week. Seems silly to me. JMO

They should. The point I was trying to make is there is no balance of power in an issue like this. There is no check in place to stop people from abusing the hotline and wasting law enforcements time.

I would take it then that most float trips, unless confined to state land, are trespassing unless they have specific permission from the adjacent land owners? Lakes are certainly not the Mississippi or Missouri rivers so by your definition of the law the adjacent land owners would also own the lakes because the weren't around back then so they were never used by barges and for commercial travel. How would you deal with those issues?

You must have a lot better eyes than I do. I have seen and/or caught fish I just knew were short that turned out to be legal. Just to play devils advocate....How many times do you reckon people have had the law called on the because they were fishing in someones favorite spot or because they were catching fish and someone else wasn't "so they just had to be doing something illegal"? I have the poacher hotline number programmed in my phone. I have yet to use it and I won't unless I see someone who is purposely and vagrantly violating the law. I am certain there are some people who are so adverse to anyone keeping a fish that they would call the law just to harass the fish keeper. Point I am trying to make is a person should know for certain what they are talking about if they call the law on someone.

Hey guys I was just joking around hence the smiley Icon.

Believe I will pass on that particular experience.

Which would you rather catch a 5Lb Rainbow or a 5Lb Brown?

I don't have any dogs in this race. I rarely drink either anymore. Water or Tea is my preference. I make my own tea and fill my water jug with well water from my own faucet, so I really don't support either of them. Somehow I think the point of this topic was to show that people will argue over anything. To this I say

CC: I didn't go into the detail that you did but you are 100% correct. Out west a person could tie up the water holes and control 1000's if not 10000's of acres of land without ever purchasing it. After all what good is land without water? It also kept people from damming up small streams and selling the water for extortion prices as well as lock up all the natural resources from fish and wildlife to logs or gravel.

Now we are talking. We would need at least twin 350's on it. Fully blown and nitrous oxide injection of course.

Then you have to make a donation to the breast cancer awareness foundation.

Sounds like you had a good time. Cleaning enough Longears for a tasty treat could take a while. Them fish don't get very big but they sure are pretty and a blast to catch.

I am not only in favor of a length limit I am in favor of a HP limit on pleasure boats. With all the big fast boats on the water early spring and fall has became my favorite time to fish the lakes. Sadly from Memorial day to Labor day it is risky business being anywhere near a popular lake.

Purple paint means no trespassing, but that means on land. It is kinda hard to paint water purple. Anyway the laws were written years ago, I think to keep water from being monopolized.

Welcome to the asylum....uhhhh I mean the site. You should find all the information you need here.

I hope they (MDC) does start stocking bigger and better fish. I have heard it rumored that we fishermen are paying for a upgrade that has nothing to do with fishing but rather it has everything to do with selling fish to other states and to the food industry. Wonder if there is any truth to this.

Channel cat or flathead?

Man I am jealous. I haven't been fishing in a couple of weeks now and am starting to get a case of the chilly-blanes.