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In court, you dont have to anchor, or touch bottom to be trespassing. Picture this, you are walking down sidewalk, jewelry store window is broken out. You reach in, steal a ring. The second your arm breaks that imaginary barrier, you are trespassing. Same applys on water. Enter a federal refuge in a boat, during duck season, on water. Cross the property line, dont touch anything. You will find out quick about trespassing. Lol. As for huntin the Mississippi, l did for yrs. Had some big days. All about water level, duks staging. Ran a 1760 with a sixty tiller. 2 ft sides. The Mississippi is very unforgiving. You need to know area well, at all stages. Dikes are very dangerous. Especially with a foot of water over them. When l hunted it, no cell phones. At least now, you can have a phone.
 
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The great lakes are another place that isn't for beginners, the power of both can kill ya quick. I have no urge to hit any of the big rivers
 

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I've been reading about the levees and all and after seeing the river that time it seems we are just kidding ourselves thinking we are gonna control/ conquer that river. We've been fooling with it for about 100 years, I guess when it gets tired of the levees and control structures it's just gonna push them out of the way and go back to normal.
 

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In court, you dont have to anchor, or touch bottom to be trespassing. Picture this, you are walking down sidewalk, jewelry store window is broken out. You reach in, steal a ring. The second your arm breaks that imaginary barrier, you are trespassing. Same applys on water. Enter a federal refuge in a boat, during duck season, on water. Cross the property line, dont touch anything. You will find out quick about trespassing. Lol. As for huntin the Mississippi, l did for yrs. Had some big days. All about water level, duks staging. Ran a 1760 with a sixty tiller. 2 ft sides. The Mississippi is very unforgiving. You need to know area well, at all stages. Dikes are very dangerous. Especially with a foot of water over them. When l hunted it, no cell phones. At least now, you can have a phone.
The laws for navigable waterways, jewelry stores, and federal refuges are not the same, but that's a nice comparison of apples, oranges, and spider monkeys.
 

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I've been reading about the levees and all and after seeing the river that time it seems we are just kidding ourselves thinking we are gonna control/ conquer that river. We've been fooling with it for about 100 years, I guess when it gets tired of the levees and control structures it's just gonna push them out of the way and go back to normal.
Straightening the river seemed like a good idea at the time, but that just unleashed a beast.
 

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The laws for navigable waterways, jewelry stores, and federal refuges are not the same, but that's a nic
The laws for navigable waterways, jewelry stores, and federal refuges are not the same, but that's a nice comparison of apples, oranges, and ok.
Go ahead. A navigable waterway is defined as a existing channel, ditch. Not the backwater it provides when out of its natural, normal bank. When a river overflows its banks, that doesnt become a navigable water way by law.
 

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