Shoal Creek Missouri Experience

[woodman]

This past weekend fishing trip was highlighted not with catching a lot of bass but a run-in with an irate land owner.
Their was 10 of us on this day trip in southern Mo. near the Ark-Okl. border.
The Missouri. Dep. of Conservation has boat launch ramps on this stream....
This stream or creek is listed in the Mo. Dep. Guide Book (A Paddlers Guide To Missouri) Which lists launch ramps access points etc. to 58 streams to canoe and kayak..............
(The gripe is why are we are not aloud to get out of our kayaks or canoes and set foot on a gravel bar to rest or fish which is down in the creek channel about 6-8 foot lower than the surrounding pasture ) We are in a flood zone (low water mark)...

Let the Ozark Angler Forum speak for it self on what happened last weekend...
4/17/11 Annual Float
http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.ph ... opic=27900

Shoal Creek Is Private Property?
http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.ph ... opic=27899

You're voice counts
http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.ph ... opic=27924

Any other states have this kind of harassment problems while trying to fish designated streams and rivers?

 

[woodman]

Here is a story out of Canada dealing with the same problem we went through in Missouri...
http://forthefly.wordpress.com/2011/04/ ... prevailed/

 

[mike]

The first three links no workee......

Mike

 

[woodman]

Fixed the links above....
The outcome of the meeting with law enforcement...
http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.ph ... opic=27963

 

[Kayak Jack]

Michigan used to have a State Supreme Court Judge that was a very avid trout fisherman. In fact, he resigned the bench to return to trout fishing, (Voelker, who wrote the book "Anatomy of A Murder".) Maybe you can find someone in the Missouri judiciary who fishes?