If you use a Georgia navigable river, you are about to take it up the kiester.

[Gunny Jake]

When that guy appointed Loeffler as our senator,…he appointed himself to the naughty list. If this House Bill will screw over Georgians, he’s all for it. Stanky Abrahams will probably pay him a Spiff.

 

[OttoMan]

So, who in the legislature is a "adjoining landowner"?

I think would be the homeowner or landowner and The Big Brother (government) in this case, ONLY the government would dictate the rules. I think!

 

[aFarewellToKings]

I think would be the homeowner or landowner and The Big Brother (government) in this case, ONLY the government would dictate the rules. I think!

My post wasn't clear (even to me).
I meant, how many legislators are "adjoining landowners"?

 

[mfoster]

Hell I seen where ocmulgee is navigable from Jackson to altamaha that is impossible without a helicopter

 

[gh1950]

Hell I seen where ocmulgee is navigable from Jackson to altamaha that is impossible without a helicopter

Historically, steam boats traveled from the Atlantic Ocean at Darien to Macon, and somewhere above.

Most people don't realize that all the old bridges in that stretch are swing bridges, with the mechanism still in place, in order to let steam boats pass at high water.

The COE had a snag boat clearing the river up into the 1980s. Typical of the gov't, the snag boat (basically a big barge with a couple of big cranes on it) would go up the river, take out the snags, put them on the bank, and next spring, when the freshets came down, wash it all back into the river.

Two hundred years of massive silting has ruined those rivers for navigation.

There still is historical debate as to how far up the Oconee steam boats came. Dublin for sure, Milledgeville likely, above there questionable. There were several large cotton mills right on the river (one in good condition now under Lake Oconee) that would have made small steam flat boats economically feasible.

 

[Greybeard2]

If this is what the land owners want then so be it. The state should stop paying any and all monies associated with stockings of fish and studies of any kind. The trout streams in north Georgia get stocked and the average person can’t fish. Landowner private fishing hole !!!

 

[CardsFan]

If this is what the land owners want then so be it. The state should stop paying any and all monies associated with stockings of fish and studies of any kind. The trout streams in north Georgia get stocked and the average person can’t fish. Landowner private fishing hole !!!

Striper fished up many small rivers long ago. Some landowners were cool, others not.

The thing is, if you're a landowner on a Striper river and buying a fishing license to keep the Striper fishery healthy, you're doing the right thing. Fish 24x7 from your land as far as I'm concerned.

But if you are fishing from your property and NOT buying a license, you are stealing from those of us that buy the license every year. Their "tax dollars" aren't helping to maintain the fishery, but some of the attitudes we encountered confirmed they thought those fish were their fish.

 

[Jeremy Sharpton]

Here’s a good question. If there is a boat ramp on USFS land on a river bank, how far can you legally run a jet boat up said river? I like to run it as far as I can that way I don’t have too much company while I fish. I’m clearly above the fall line. The govt put that boat ramp there in the river with some of my tax $$$$. I think the people that don’t want us up there fishing should really show the govt and quit paying their taxes!!

 

[Greybeard2]

The way I understand it is this: you are legal in your jet boat until you come to private property. Then you are trespassing if they want to push the issue. But you do have a jet boat so outrun them. Lol lol.

 

[Jeremy Sharpton]

The way I understand it is this: you are legal in your jet boat until you come to private property. Then you are trespassing if they want to push the issue. But you do have a jet boat so outrun them. Lol lol.

Frustrating