Thread: Picture of Butla Sunday

Killin time Sunday, I looked around at Arkabutla. The spill is completly shut off and the lake is about a foot from going over. The first picture is the closest picknick table south of the levee. The last pic is HWY 51 landing which is all the way to the crappers.

Just wondering. Since the lake is flooded back onto people's land which are usually pastures, do you have to ask permision to fish?.. Hmmmm.. So would it be private or public? Hmmm.. And if it is concidered private, would we still be held to the same crappie size/# limits??? HHHHmmmmm........... :D

If arkabutla is like Grenada, that land is corp land that they lease to people for pastures and row crop land. It's still public, and you can fish and hunt on it when flooded or otherwise.

Nice try though.:D

Originally Posted by EmptyStringer

Just wondering. Since the lake is flooded back onto people's land which are usually pastures, do you have to ask permision to fish?.. Hmmmm.. So would it be private or public? Hmmm.. And if it is concidered private, would we still be held to the same crappie size/# limits??? HHHHmmmmm........... :D

You can fish any where you can but all lake rules apply. Caught em in a bean field a few years ago.

Pstone: I know that around these parts when you lease land from an entity, public or private, the leese generally controls access and usage of that land. If I lease land for row cropping I certainly want to be able to be in control of any other usage by people other than me on that land. On occasion people come onto land which is known public land but leased to private individuals and have been known to shoot up the farm equipment, leave gates open, and run 4x4's randomly through their crops. I'd be surprised if the Corp would let you have unlimited access to Corp land that they have independently leased to a private citizen. Could happen though. Just askin'!? Don't want anybody gettin cross ways with each other over a miscommunication or misinterpretation of usage issues. Just tryin to help.

Jimmydee,
The land around the lakes in N miss is corps of engineers land when it is lease to an individual it is lease for farming use only. It is still public land and the hunting and fishing rights cant be leased.You may put up a gate and limit it to foot travel or atv travel,but you have no say so as to who can come and go. It is public land.

Yep, we hunted in a mans cut corn feild last year that was COE land that he leased. I got a friend that has to pull his cows out of the COE pasture every deer season to keep em from getting shot... You can still hunt on it, just not destoy it. They have rights to farm and pasture there, but can't stop hunters/fishers/birdwatchers/etc.

guys, you can acess any coe land thats flooded, or not flooded, the thing about fishin on private flooded land , the gwarden told me if its posted dry its posted wet.

Slaiterman is correct posted wet is posted dry.

Mike

Ha ha. Thought that might stir up a conversation. By the way, I heard Butla went over the emergency spill last night.