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Originally Posted by Zachary Boy

I tried to stay out of this one but....I rented an R/V lot on Bayou Lafourche for about eight years. We were a couple miles north of Bobby Lynns and there were about 3 little runouts across form our campground. One weekend (when I wasn't there) a friend let his kids age 12 and 9 years old troll across the bayou and fish in the canals to get away from the ever present crew boat/shrimp boat traffic in the Bayou. The so called land owners ran them out and told them "Don't come back, private". These guys also had a camp on the waterfront. Right after dark every weekend ,they came easing out of the same canal with no lights or running lights,threw their ice chest in the truck and hauled arse. I'm sure they were making some major meathauls on the redfish but would not allow kids to fish. I say if fish swim into a waterway, they belong to the taxpayers of Louisiana. If it's private dam it up, don't gate it.

This is a major problem in the Lafourche area, several people I know no longer fish down there because of this. I suspect several people would change their position on this site if you could no longer fish areas in Turner's bay or behind the weirs. It happened in Lafourche, it can happen in big lake.

Another unintended consequence is there are people like me that are going to fish no matter what, if I had to buy a lease for my kids to fish then I would do it and would write that check and never look back. More buyers for leases (like me and my very wealthy neighbors in my camp area) would drive prices up for the rest of the people on this site that may struggle to pay their duck lease every year. Before long, guess what they can no longer afford their lease and they are looking for public places to hunt. I suspect many would change thier position on this law.