Quote Originally Posted by GITN-JIGY View Post
It is not the same...

You do not own the bait, water, or the slip, only the light is your property. Are you not going to allow the other slip owners to fish from the slip they lease if it is next to yours? Also you dont make my boat payments so you do not tell me where to fish!
Actually, you are misinformed. I pay rent on the slip, therefore I am a tenant of the slip. All possession, usage, access, trespassing laws state that a renter is granted the same rights as if they own the property. So, I do, in the eyes of the law, "own" the slip. And simply saying it isn't the same doesn't hold water unless you can provide a valid argument as to how it isn't the same. I never claimed to own the bait or water just as I never claimed you owned the picnic table or the land underneath it. So how is it really not the same? I can answer that. It isn't the same because I actually do have more rights to my slip than you do to the picnic table.