Guiding On Crane Creek?

[pruett417]

I can only assume that it's a law, it's contained in the Missouri Statutes and it would be the person who is guidings responsibility to ensure he/she is abiding by law. Punishable by what? I'm assuming a fine or citation leading to a fine, you would have to refer that question to someone a helluva lot more qualified than most of us. I think we all tend to read a whole lot more into these issues than what the original thread is referring to. No, it's not illegal to guide on Crane Creek, when accessed by means of private property. If guiding on Crane in areas in which the stream flows through land leased or owned by the Missouri Department of Conservation it is illegal. I don't think it's an issue of the navigable waterways nor the stream bed, if you're gonna guide on Crane Creek don't do it via state owned access and don't step "ON" conservation land while you do it, it's that easy....but then again I usually look for the most obvious interpretation of these things, so I may be the minority in this case. As most know, at least the one's that fish this resource, 90% of the time you're feet aren't wet while fishing the stream, so therefore you are technically on land owned by the Missouri Conservation Department. I'm like a lot of the others chiming in to this post, I've taken several people fishing on Crane, and I enjoy sharing the experience, and I leave it at that......enjoy the resource, take care of it, leave it in a way that makes the next visit just as enjoyable.......everything has to get so darn difficult once money is involved. But I am interested on what it takes to have one of those 30, 40, or 50 fish days......and here I thought I was doing good with anything more than 1.