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Steelshot Scott wrote:The problem with that is that if they allow Sunday hunting for waterfowl, they will allow it only on private property(i.e. impoundments and ponds). All public water would be off limits, that includes creeks and streams and beaverponds fed by public water. So we would give up days so impoundment hunters could hunt on Sundays. I don't want that and I bet that 99% of duckhunters would feel the same way if they understood the full impact and restrictions of the law.
dead_fowl wrote:NCGS 1-45.1
§ 1-45.1. No adverse possession of property subject to public trust rights.
Title to real property held by the State and subject to public trust rights may not be acquired
by adverse possession. As used in this section, "public trust rights" means those rights held in
trust by the State for the use and benefit of the people of the State in common. They are
established by common law as interpreted by the courts of this State. They include, but are not
limited to, the right to navigate, swim, hunt, fish, and enjoy all recreational activities in the
watercourses of the State and the right to freely use and enjoy the State's ocean and estuarine
beaches and public access to the beaches. (1985, c. 277, s. 1.)
Steelshot Scott wrote:I am not misrepresenting the definition of public water. If you can access any navigable water from public trust water, it is by definition public water. If you can access a beaver pond from public trust water without getting out of your boat and crossing private property, it is in fact, public trust water. I have many times run up and over a beaverdam in my boat. As long as I don't get out of my boat, I am in public trust water. Do you somehow believe that if you are on your land by the river and the water is high and you are hunting from flooded timber that it is somehow not the same water that is out in the channel of the river? If that were so, a person with a boat blind could hunt on your "private" property without permission. I have not misrepresented it. The problem that the public/private water question would raise would be where does private property start and who could hunt the "public" water on Sunday.
Not to mention that it would take 1/6th of the season from everyone to award it to a few.
Steelshot Scott wrote:It appears the Sunday hunting law will make it to the floor for a up or down vote. If it passes, there will be no hunting on Sunday for waterfowl. Seems that would answer the Sunday hunting problem without costing duck hunters valuable days since the law allows Sunday hunting only on public property.
Steelshot Scott wrote:The more I think about it, it is more like 99% of us are on a diet and 1% want to force us to intravenously inject the calories of a cookie directly into our bloodstream without even letting us eat the cookie.
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