Turning a blind eye?
- Thread starter snyper564
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Taken from the Qwantani harbour at sterkfontein dam
LOL, I love pics like these.
Just an interesting note, you can only be banned from fishing on land, if you are on water that borders public and private property (like basslover's pic) and you are on the water, you cannot be chased away by the land owner. The water does not belong to him
Just an interesting note, you can only be banned from fishing on land, if you are on water that borders public and private property (like basslover's pic) and you are on the water, you cannot be chased away by the land owner. The water does not belong to him
Little Green Fish
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Loams wrote:
, so if you got there by boat/kayak/trekker-tube/swam etc. and gotten onto this piece of dirt you can fish to your hearts content.
Ok now to make it even more interesting............... If you are on the land that borders the water, right, but you're below the highwater mark (the level when the dam is at its fullest), right, he, the owner has the same dillema, as the land that is his property stops where this mark is. So in half-full dams you can stand between the water and this mark and you cannot be chased away, having said that, you must not have crossed the owners land to have gotten there.....
, so if you got there by boat/kayak/trekker-tube/swam etc. and gotten onto this piece of dirt you can fish to your hearts content.Little Green Fish wrote:
Just ask William Smith in Knysna... His toppie has actually painted a white line on the high water mark, and apparently the old man used to shoot at people if they crossed it.
100% correct for saltwater, but I don't know about fresh water....Loams wrote:Ok now to make it even more interesting............... If you are on the land that borders the water, right, but you're below the highwater mark (the level when the dam is at its fullest), right, he, the owner has the same dillema, as the land that is his property stops where this mark is. So in half-full dams you can stand between the water and this mark and you cannot be chased away, having said that, you must not have crossed the owners land to have gotten there.....
Just ask William Smith in Knysna... His toppie has actually painted a white line on the high water mark, and apparently the old man used to shoot at people if they crossed it.
Shooting at people is a pretty dodgy action to take, even if they are above the high water mark. Just the other day there was an article about some guy who shot somebody who broke into his house and he was charged with murder. I don't think that a "justice ?" system that will do that would have much sympathy with a landowner who shoots somebody who crossed a painted high water mark.
Not that it would be much help to the shootee though, it's purely academic.
Not that it would be much help to the shootee though, it's purely academic.
Marthin
Sealiner
Little Green Fish wrote:
Even further than this..... If you are on a boat/kayak/trekker-tube, and for some reason you cannot go further, you are allowed to take your craft out of the water, and keeping as close to the water as possible walk on his land and then enter the water again as soon as possible, without it being called trespassing.
Loams wrote:Ok now to make it even more interesting............... If you are on the land that borders the water, right, but you're below the highwater mark (the level when the dam is at its fullest), right, he, the owner has the same dillema, as the land that is his property stops where this mark is. So in half-full dams you can stand between the water and this mark and you cannot be chased away, having said that, you must not have crossed the owners land to have gotten there.....
Even further than this..... If you are on a boat/kayak/trekker-tube, and for some reason you cannot go further, you are allowed to take your craft out of the water, and keeping as close to the water as possible walk on his land and then enter the water again as soon as possible, without it being called trespassing.
Marthin wrote:
And if you fish at the same time?? :lol:1Little Green Fish wrote:Loams wrote:Ok now to make it even more interesting............... If you are on the land that borders the water, right, but you're below the highwater mark (the level when the dam is at its fullest), right, he, the owner has the same dillema, as the land that is his property stops where this mark is. So in half-full dams you can stand between the water and this mark and you cannot be chased away, having said that, you must not have crossed the owners land to have gotten there.....
Even further than this..... If you are on a boat/kayak/trekker-tube, and for some reason you cannot go further, you are allowed to take your craft out of the water, and keeping as close to the water as possible walk on his land and then enter the water again as soon as possible, without it being called trespassing.
IAN FISHERMAN
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shame brew shame... must suck big time to loose all your stuff. I don't know what I would do if that happened to me.