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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7117804
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What do you guide for out of the boat, Dirt?

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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7117812
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Here in the great state of Nebraska, nobody own the water on navigable rivers. How a body of water is determined to be navigable, I don't know. Landowners own the land under that water, to the middle of the channel if the river divides properties. So I can put in at a public access point, and paddle down to where the river goes through private property. If I fish using a bobber, I'm not trespassing, because I'm not using he land. But if I fish using a sinker, I'm trespassing because my sinker is on the private property under water. If one side of the river is public land, I can only fish with a sinker on that half of the river. Kinda silly. Also, portaging around an obstruction is an affirmative defense to trespassing, as long as the water is navigable. So I can get out on walk on your land if you put barbed wire across a navigable river. Never done it, though. Never had to, and it just doesn't seem right, even if it's legal.

Re: Navigable Waters [Re: charles] #7117813
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Originally Posted by charles
I didn’t hear the entire recording but I think if someone carries customers for hire, they may need a Coast Guard captains license and their vessel is required to be inspected annually. Lots of other CG refs could apply, even on internal waters and lakes.

A lakeside restaurant cannot provide free pontoon boat rides to patrons. A coastal wedding venue cannot provide water born entertainment for wedding guests, without CG licensed operators. Not sure when a fishing guide requires licensing, probably on coastal waters for sure. More than six passengers requires a different license.

The point though is that even if the potential boat operators meet all the Federal requirements (Coast Guard licenses, etc) the State of Washington still won't allow them to operate since the State has created a monopoly on who can operate on that large lake; they allow only one operator. Tell me that is fair.


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7117840
01/03/21 12:57 AM
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Be careful what you wish for.

I can see the Feds taking control and using it to control all the land that the water flows thru.

I was looking at buy some land that had a VERY small flow of water thru it. You could easily step across it and it was less than 6" deep for its full length.

The town had no issue with putting a culvert in it to access the rest of the property. In fact there was already a culvert in it upstream on the neighbors property that he used to get to the farm fields.

I looked into what the state might say.

State said I might want to get OK from Army Corp of Engineers. I looked into that. Seems that if they determine that a body of water is navigable there is all kinds or red tape needed to build a bridge over it.
They viewed a culvert and driveway as a bridge.

Gave me cold feet. I told seller about possible issues.

The seller decided to avoid the issue and hired a excavator and had them put a culvert in with no formal OK from anyone. That was about 5 years ago, the culvert is still there and the new owner of the place uses it everyday.

Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118198
01/03/21 11:02 AM
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The feds aren't a party to the lawsuit. The federal government has no regulatory authority regarding commerce over intrastate navigable waters.


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: FairbanksLS] #7118222
01/03/21 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by white dog
The feds aren't a party to the lawsuit. The federal government has no regulatory authority regarding commerce over intrastate navigable waters.


I argued this point when the Feds made me get a six pac and the ole TWIC card. I believe this has something to do with maritime law?


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118246
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The US supreme court has already made decisions concerning navigable waters. It has already ruled that on navigable waters, the state owns the land to the ordinary high water mark. The test for navigability is this: can it be navigated with commercial-type watercraft such as were common when the state began, including canoe-type watercraft. The supremes specifically said that there should be no strange or unusual test for navigability- if it is navigable, it is navigable. Once it is determined to be navigable, it does not fall under federal jurisdiction, but state jurisdiction where it held in trust for the people. Until sportsmen rise up and force the issue, lots of opportunities for water use will be under lock and key, designated as a private waterway when the supreme court has already ruled in our favor. We need to make the state recognize the property rights we already have been given.

Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118250
01/03/21 11:38 AM
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^^^^^
The Coast Guard license is for safety reasons, so we can legally carry paying customers whether it's in conjunction with our guide business or just for ferrying.
The need for the TWIC card is just part of the CG licensing process whether you are operating a canoe or a thousand ton ship.
Really dumb requirements, but it is bureaucrats who dream up this stuff, so it's not surprising.


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118261
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Every waterway out here is undetermined except for one and the State owns the waterways up to the high water mark as far as I know for both. Maybe not in the Park?


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118324
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Most if not all of our rivers and alot of our bigger cricks are considered navigable which means we have the right to be anywhere up to the high bank or as in the books, "the high water line". We can walk, trap and fish anywhere along them.


Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118328
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If the state offers public transportation do they have a right to deny a hotel from operating an airport shuttle on public highways.


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118329
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What about when its iced over?


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: 330-Trapper] #7118343
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
What about when its iced over?


If your asking me, doesn't matter. Landowners don't own anything below the high water mark.

Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118352
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I have to ask. Is it the high water line, high water bank, or high water mark? Lol


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: FairbanksLS] #7118420
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Originally Posted by white dog
I have to ask. Is it the high water line, high water bank, or high water mark? Lol


All the above! lol

Its arbitrary, but in actuality with some common sense its easy to see.

Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118617
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the Marias des Cygne routinely floods. Almost annually. There are a lot of places where the normal high water line is a mile from the water.


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: 330-Trapper] #7118642
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
What about when its iced over?

Same deal at least here in Maine.


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7118647
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I usually ask permission...depends on the flow age!


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Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7119202
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The high water mark is defined as the location along the stream where the high water leaves a permanent change in appearance or vegetation. The bank may be all sand and then weeds start or something similar. Obviously water vegetation such as cattails can be some distance from the waterline. There is nothing absolutely set in stone, but a warden or landowner should be understanding as the boundary cannot be narrowed down to an inch or two. As of now, Montana, my home state, only recognizes to the low water mark. Ie, no traps above waterline. Can anyone show me a low water mark? ? Funny, as it doesn't exist. I wonder why the sportsman's alliance and sportsmen's groups are not suing states where our water rights are protected?

Re: Navigable Waters [Re: danny clifton] #7119220
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Persons using navigable waterways also have the right to incidental contact with the bottom up to the high water mark. As the waterways were held in trust by the states some states on intrastate waterways held the navigable waterways as the federal intent was if in facts they are indeed navigable, they are navigable. KY you have the right to navigate navigable waterways intrastate and Illinois you do not. I have been to the lower court and was upheld by a district judge for anchoring decoys. Our conservation officers can’t stand it and have cited and fought the public for some of their chronies who own land around the river and it’s tributaries. “You have the right to navigate and recreate including incidental contact with the stream bed up to the ordinary high water mark” the high water mark varies but is usually recognized by the point where the bank transitions its vegetative growth and in some places may be close to the riverbank and others very far from the riverbank.

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