Thread: Lakeview / Horn LAKE, MS

Have even tried to PAY commercial fishermen. Which there r very few left. The Chinese fishermen at Moon River foods are our only hope!!

You are doing a great deed rebranger what about Tunica cutoff? I haven't been there in years.. and do you at least get to sell those fish?

I remember at Lakeview the fish market would buy buffallo and catfish also to if I'm not mistaken. I hooked a very old trotline while bass fishing dang thing had a huge buffallo 50lbs plus if I had to guess on it. I ended up cutting the line after it basically ruined my pretty new bait caster, guy at the fish market said he would have bought it if I would have brought it in At least i could have got a few dollars back for my reel. And I would figure those fish would make good fertilizer or something if some are not edible..

yes sell some, too far to drive to sell the Asian Carp, the Chinamen come get them. They're fishing in the Cutoff too, but not near enough

Don't get me started on Lakeview or Flower Lake, it will get my blood pressure up! I've spoken to everyone that would listen over the last several years about those lakes, lawyers and wardens with MDWFP, Commissioners, Levee Board etc. They don't want to touch it and don't want to enforce their jurisdiction for public access. But they would be more than happy for me "as a private citizen to file suit" because I have a ton of cash just to pay more lawyers to defend what the state should be defending. I think the citizens should file suit against the State for allowing this to happen especially when our tax dollars have funded these lakes, stocking plans, wages for officers and employees of the state, and the list goes on and on. Just this past weekend I made a road trip to "check in" on Flower and noted the private landowners have now reinforced their man made restrictions into flower. This is called blocking a navigable waterway, but who is keeping score? Good luck with this one. If anyone wants more info PM me. This thorn has been in my side for years. Just let me win the lottery...

Yeah Tracker, if I had to guess this all comes down to money and someone probably is getting greased up. Before it was sold to the previous owner I believe was Belz. From what I understand he intended to open a casino / resort on the lake but Robbinsville casinos had more lawyers and money to block these plans. It was sold to the current owners and after the big flood of 2011 flooded the bait shop and did more damage than the owner was willing to spend to repair. So the new owner just blocked it off and told the public to go pound sand. I would be willing to start a petition if you think we could muster the support? It's a start anyway, everyone says the lake is gone to the carp and is basically unfishable for game fish anymore. But with the tactics rebranger is deploying on his lake I believe it could be brought back to it's former glory. How can you have a city named after a public oxbow lake and not allow the public fish that lake.. it's bizarre.

Originally Posted by Tracker99

Don't get me started on Lakeview or Flower Lake, it will get my blood pressure up! I've spoken to everyone that would listen over the last several years about those lakes, lawyers and wardens with MDWFP, Commissioners, Levee Board etc. They don't want to touch it and don't want to enforce their jurisdiction for public access. But they would be more than happy for me "as a private citizen to file suit" because I have a ton of cash just to pay more lawyers to defend what the state should be defending. I think the citizens should file suit against the State for allowing this to happen especially when our tax dollars have funded these lakes, stocking plans, wages for officers and employees of the state, and the list goes on and on. Just this past weekend I made a road trip to "check in" on Flower and noted the private landowners have now reinforced their man made restrictions into flower. This is called blocking a navigable waterway, but who is keeping score? Good luck with this one. If anyone wants more info PM me. This thorn has been in my side for years. Just let me win the lottery...

If I remember correctly, they stocked Lakeview with stripers less than a year before it went private.

Here's the rub, research the Miss Law on the definitions of a "navigable" waterway. The Casino people could not put casinos in certain places they thought they could.. Any "man made" body of water is not defined as navigable... Don't Ask me how I know... cost me $$ to learn that!!!