Police ticketing fishermen in Captains Quarters

[MarkW]

Until someone can come up with a real clear version of what happened and what is going? What do we do? How can we fight it? Obviously there will be some big tournaments coming up and this argument is going to show up again and again.

Ray----where did you come up with the "unlawful trapping" story? Did somebody really get a ticket for that? That would be a very silly excuse for a ticket. I have never heard of that one.

[bje]

The person that got the ticket could get an attorney to represent him and ask the judge to dismiss the case on the basis that the ticket is enforceable under Kentucky Law. For anyone interested, the Kentucky case that disusses the issue of public right to navigable waterways is Pierson V. Coffey, and it is published in book 706 of the Southwest Reporter, page 409. You can read and or copy it at any local law library. Again, I am not sure whether the CQ is exempted from this because they trenched out private property to create the bay, but I would argue that they extended a navigable waterway and in doing so made it open to public navigation.