5/7 Lower End High School

[Hunter53]

So in the pdf all the yellow highlighted stuff is legal to fish?  I know there is a gas dock and restaurant in the yellow highlighted area on the left side in the first pic. 

[Bill Babler]

Just got off the phone with the Corp. Very helpful. Old rule 50’ from a gas dock. New rule and it may be changed 50’ from any commercial dock. The commercial chart may not be correct, you have to go by the 50’ rule.  A commercial zone cannot be 100/200’ of empty shoreline between docks so that’s why the chart is off. It is simply 50’ from the commercial docks. 

Rule is not enforced by the Water/ Hwy. Patrol. Marina operators can ask that you stay 50’ away.  They are also asked to not let slip owners fish, but the Corps know that they do and it is really not enforceable unless a ranger sees it. 

They are also not out there to measure 50’ for fishermen. They just don’t want lures clanging off boats. She said it’s really the honor system and both commercial operators and private fishermen neither are adhering to it. 
She said it’s basically unenforceable. 

I know for an absolute fact there are marinas that let not only slip rental clients fish but let a couple of the old time guides and their clients in the off season walk the dock and fish their slips. 

Hunter was correct in that the kids should not have been allowed to fish a dock slip. 

It’s coming to you will need GPS cords and a range finder for TR. 

Totally ridiculous.