I see the point but it does chap your rear when the same guys refuses a offer to help place structure, then crowd you off what you put in. That is just sorry in my book. Like putting up a deer stand after days of scouting and opening day someone set up within 100' of your stand or worse sitting in it.

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Crappiepappy. Hard of hearing? lol I like that one.

Like you, I don't camp in one spot more than 15 minutes if the action is slow. That bein' said, I reckon I don't get subjected to much harassment by some idiot.

I reckon if I did get harassed, I could pull out the ole 45 and do some turtle shootin' within 50 yards/feet of him~ Just joshin'~but a nice fantasy (about the only kind I have nowadays.

aj

I agree. And if you stumble onto a good looking brushpile while trolling then by all means...FISH IT!!!

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NIMROD, that sounds like a wanabe friend that is too sorry to help. I would just kick his ass. and still be his friend.

I own it If I find some structure I fish it. Plenty of folks have found ours and fished it. What can you do.

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This is how the ownership thing really goes. You dump it in the lake, you still own it. If there is something in it that is damages the lake you are responsible. If there is a person fishing over it, you still own it. However, you don't own the lake that it is in. If the lake is public you cannot tell the person fishing your cover to move. You can, dive down and move your crappie condo if you wish.

Just like if you put a boat in the water, it does not become public property. If a person is fishing around your boat you do not have the right to run them off but you can move your boat.

How's this for another theory?

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If it's in the water, it's free for all to fish!

My two cents.

I used to build and place a lot of structure. Tried to never go to the structure I placed on a bass tournament day, just to keep exposure to a minimum. One day I went to lake and low and behold I had forgot it was a tourney day, the first 5 sets of structure I motored by that I had built, either had a bass boat on it fishing or a marker bouy marking it as they had found it with their electronics and would fish it later.

My other two cents.

A friend and I put a very large cedar tree in, it was a lot of trouble, someone had the audacity to move that tree. ( I am a diver and know for a fact it was moved, gone) I have known guys that make large hooks out of re-bar for the express purpose of "stealing / moving" structure that others have went to the trouble of placing. This incident caused me not to build or place structure for a long time.

Who was the loser? The fisherie. Just think how much better a fisherie could be if everyone just put in a little structure.

On the other issue, we can all fish it.

I have to agree on it being public proterty, even if it was mine. This spring we had high water at our place in Central Louisiana we had to guys fishing in our yard I thought it was funny and even took a piucture of them, but I did it mainly because the boat was an LSU Sketter purple and gold. I was just glad they didn't hit the walkway that was about 4' under water.

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