Rude boater in Ohio river marina

[365allout]

Can someone explain the laws/rights with fishing in the marinas on the Ohio River. I see signs that fishing is not allowed. I also do not see how they can prevent recreation fishing from occurring since it is connected and accessed via public waters. I do not want to get a ticket but would love to fish these waters. I purposely do not enter any tournaments on the Ohio because I know that others fish the Marinas but I do not know where the laws stand. Any insight into this situation is greatly appreciated.

I can't say in that situation but with most Corps Lakes many of the marina areas are leased for commercial purpose areas and the lease holder has certain rights to reduce or prevent interference in his venture within that area. Few seem to know or choose to ignore it and the signs but fishing is not allowed in most marina areas. However that is between the marina operator, Fish and Wildlife Service, lease grantor and the angler, no boater has the right to be harassing another angler as in the video, I would rape him in court. A note to tournament anglers is that fishing in most marina leased areas is a violation of posted restriction, which by most tournament rules is automatic disqualification.

[EricSnow]

I can't say in that situation but with most Corps Lakes many of the marina areas are leased for commercial purpose areas and the lease holder has certain rights to reduce or prevent interference in his venture within that area. Few seem to know or choose to ignore it and the signs but fishing is not allowed in most marina areas. However that is between the marina operator, Fish and Wildlife Service, lease grantor and the angler, no boater has the right to be harassing another angler as in the video, I would rape him in court. A note to tournament anglers is that fishing in most marina leased areas is a violation of posted restriction, which by most tournament rules is automatic disqualification.

This is the case when the marina owner leases the land from the COE. In the case of the video the land is owned by the marina.

[SLP]

It looks like the marina has dealt with the problem, this was posted on the youtube comments.

Louisville Yacht Club
4 hours ago
We do not condone the actions of this resident and he has been dealt with. His actions were his alone and not respresentative of the membership of LYC. We are aware of the public waterway statute and his violations of it and have made it quite clear to him that this action will not be tolerated. We have also had a very good suggestion by one of your fellow anglers regarding rewording the sign at the mouth of the marina. We are reviewing this and will make appropriate changes. We did not remove the message on FB and quite frankly we are glad that this was brought to our attention via FB so that a dialog could occur and hope that we can all get back to enjoying the water and her bounties, now if we could just get some of the fishermen to share some of those Bass!
We apologize to the fishermen involved in this video and look forward to something like this NOT occurring again!

Nice to see everyone involved keep their heads and handle it responsibly.

[GeoFisher]

They totally cleaned up the thread on their facebook page.........it is completely gone.

Personally, I don't think this should be accepted, and ALL fellow fishermen and women her should take a stand, crowd fund a lawyer, and GET this stupidity settled once and for all

Property rights along the river are interfering with fair use rights all over Kentucky and Indiana. Mostly because it is an "old boys club", and the politicians own all local enforcement.

I had a dumbass land owner on the Elkhorn come out with a shotgun, basically DARING me to step foot on the riverbed. That happened nearly 10 years ago........which is why I stopped fishing there.

Later,

Geo