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[quote name="643" post="823062" timestamp="1281009895"] [size=10pt][b]Legally, I don't see how the guards can[/b][/size], also I have been run off from the bulkhead at the CG station, in the yrs past I have always picked up a few flounder against the bulkhead, now they run you off and I do leave cuz their 50cal trumps my Glock... [/quote] I don't know if they can or can't in this situation but I think it is possible for the law to allow them to do that. Navigable waterways are controlled by federal law and they can set what waters are used for. The feds can set all rules for the rights and uses of those waterways, even if contained entirely within a state. The states have the right to make laws that control the use of such waterways also just like with other laws. In other words, you can have dual jurisdiction however, either one can make something against the law and the other generally cannot trump that law. Now the feds could make a specific law that overrides state law such as if the feds said something like, "A state cannot make new laws regarding blah blah blah". An example of dual jurisdiction is that the federal government does not have laws on armed robbery (called Aggravated Robbery in Texas) but they do have laws on bank robberies because they are federally insured. Texas naturally has those Agg Robbery laws. In a bank robbery, they appear to conflict as Texas law on a bank robbery does not match federal law on bank robbery. In such a case the feds can prosecute under their laws or the state can prosecute under their laws or both can prosecute. They have dual jurisdiction with different statutes. Texas law cannot stop federal bank robbery laws and federal law cannot stop Texas's right to make their own robbery laws. It is the same in navigable waterways. Even is something is not against the law in Texas (using navigable waterways), that does not stop the feds from making a more restrictive law. The United States Code are all laws in the USA or the equivalent of the Texas Penal Code, Parks and Wildlife Code, etc. The US Code gives the federal government control over all federal waters which is all navigable waters. It has been upheld in court under the Commerce Clause part of the Constitution. The federal law is restrictive enough in use that there is even a federal law dealing with the Sabine Ship Channel. That's right folks, the federal government has a law that specifically names Port Arthur and Sabine Pass in navigable waterways, which coincidentally is the very waterway that we are talking about. There are also laws pertaining to safety zones around military installations and other vital infrastructure of which Sabine Pass has plenty. Here is part of the law from the USC. It says the waterways are free to be used by the public BUT Congress shall have control to make laws pertaining to protection, maintenance, etc. [size=10pt][b]United States Code TITLE 33 > CHAPTER 1 > SUBCHAPTER I > § 12 § 12. Port Arthur Ship Canal After there shall be conveyed to the United States, free of cost, a valid title to the line of water communication between Taylors Bayou and Sabine Pass, in the State of Texas, known as the Port Arthur Ship Canal,.......................the said waterways shall thereupon become free public waters of the United States, and be subject to the laws enacted by Congress for the maintenance, preservation, protection, and regulation of navigable waters: [/b][/size] The reason for federal control is obvious if you think about it. If it did not have such laws, Texas could for example, stop the military shipments from Beaumont to the Iraq and Afghan wars or all oil. The feds have to have control over such waterways. The words maintenance, preservation and protection gives the Congress wide latitude in making laws. Back to the main question about navigable waterways and fishing in Sabine Pass. The federal government has the right to control all navigable waterways in general and specifically has a law anyway for portions of the ship channel. Texas also has navigable waterway laws that says a private entity cannot block a navigable waterway from the public if that waterway has public access. That came up a few years back in this area when some people that owned land on either side of some local bayous and tributaries tried to block access to duck hunters by using barbed wire. They were under the assumption that since they owned all land on either side of the waterway, they could block it. Texas laws says no, it has to remain open. That law however has nothing to do with federal law restricting use for safety or commerce purposes. Clear as mud?

Since crossbows are now legal to use during whitetail archery only season, I figured that a few more people might be trying them out and maybe even hunting archery season for the first time. For now, I am still using my compound.

[quote name="PNG Proud" post="822630" timestamp="1280802032"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=70019.msg822357#msg822357 date=1280662981] I could use a boatload of sand trout. Some people don't like them but I do. [/quote] I love too.  Some say that they turn mushy after freezing, but I never found that to be true. [/quote] Maybe if they make sushi out of them.  :D Fried they are great.

[quote name="westend1" post="822499" timestamp="1280760794"] Question for you offshore guys.  I'm looking at a 2005 Robalo r240 with twim yamaha 150's.  What is your impression of this boat for light offshore(Maybe up to 50 miles) [/quote] I have been out to about 30 miles in an 18 foot with a single 135 Merc on the back (not that I was intelligent). I would think the R240 with two Yamahas would be easily a good offshore boat.

[quote name="baseball10" post="822458" timestamp="1280716646"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=70019.msg821671#msg821671 date=1280380962] Went to the channel tonight with another guy and we got one keeper in an hour and a half. Almost no bait seen in the water. [/quote] where'd you try to get some bait at?? [/quote] Where we fished under some of the lights near downtown PA. I think the heavy rains from the last week have killed the fishing for now. I work with a guy that guides on the weekends and they fished a tounament today and caught three keepers in several hours of hard fishing on the south end and at the jetties. Another guy that I work with that fishes all of the time did not catch a keeper gamefish of any kind in the same tourney. A few days and it will probably be back up and running full force if we don't get any more heavy rains.

[quote name="liltex" post="822444" timestamp="1280711172"] I'd post some pics if I knew how.I can barely do this w/a computer.My grandkids could shame me when they were 4 lol. [/quote] Go to photobucket or imageshack. They are free services (although they all try to sell you something) that allow you to upload photos or videos to your personal media page. Each photo or video has its own webpage and you can post that webpage on here but putting [img][/img] around the page. I know on photobucket, you click on the post photo option below the picture and it adds that automatically for you. I use photobucket. Go to that and sign up for the free account much like signing up for this forum. Then start posting away.

I could use a boatload of sand trout. Some people don't like them but I do.

[quote name="PNG Proud" post="821927" timestamp="1280455505"] is the water muddy? [/quote] As bad as I have seen it this year in the channel.

[quote name="baseball10" post="821670" timestamp="1280380841"] went on the neches last saturday, got 5 keepers all Spec's saturday morning and then my buddy went back sunday to the same spot and got 4 more Spec's...gunna go again this weekend  but probably wont get the same result with the hard raining all 3 days this week [/quote] Went to the channel tonight with another guy and we got one keeper in an hour and a half. Almost no bait seen in the water.

[quote name="rykerx144" post="820961" timestamp="1280243794"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=70019.msg820949#msg820949 date=1280242865] [quote author=rykerx144 link=topic=70019.msg820922#msg820922 date=1280240212] went bank fishing last night.  Couldnt find trout any where.  Caught a few red and flounder but no a single trout!! GRRRR [/quote] After I caught them twice in a row the last few days, a couple of friends went out Saturday night and only caught two keeper trout. I guess the last few days of rain have again pushed them south. We sure have been getting a lot of rain in the last month. I like rain as much as the next guy but a break would be nice or maybe some small showers and not these gushers that we have been getting. [/quote] i went to the terminal next to the coke dock and worked my way along the channel at any light i can find.  Saw a lot of movement and bait fish but couldnt find any trout [/quote] They are with the bait but we are having a hard time finding bait right now. Four weeks ago you could wade across the ship channel on shad. Now I have a hard time finding any. That is why I want the rain to stop.

[quote name="rykerx144" post="820922" timestamp="1280240212"] went bank fishing last night.  Couldnt find trout any where.  Caught a few red and flounder but no a single trout!! GRRRR [/quote] After I caught them twice in a row the last few days, a couple of friends went out Saturday night and only caught two keeper trout. I guess the last few days of rain have again pushed them south. We sure have been getting a lot of rain in the last month. I like rain as much as the next guy but a break would be nice or maybe some small showers and not these gushers that we have been getting.

In November.

[quote name="hatethatpurple!" post="820230" timestamp="1280005871"] I think we should wait a few weeks before making this prediction, just so we know what each team is bringing to the table! [/quote] It's only 4 and a half months until they play.  ;D

[quote name="rykerx144" post="820155" timestamp="1279978568"] dont know yet!  any suggestions [/quote] Anywhere that you can find lights at night. We have been killing them in the ship channel.

[quote name="PNG Proud" post="820211" timestamp="1279999116"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=71181.msg820137#msg820137 date=1279958918] [quote author=PNG Proud link=topic=71181.msg820126#msg820126 date=1279945300] Got my 1st one, and 2 on the same day!   Trout, red, flounder.....SWEET! [/quote] A three base hit is a grand slam?  ;D [/quote] I have been catching a bunch of baby sand trout in a cast net.... and the specks have no problems eating their cousins. If I throw in the croaker and sand trout too maybe?   :/ [/quote] I

[quote name="rykerx144" post="820139" timestamp="1279965073"] Im going tonite hope they still around! [/quote] Where at?

[quote name="PNG Proud" post="820126" timestamp="1279945300"] Got my 1st one, and 2 on the same day!   Trout, red, flounder.....SWEET! [/quote] A three base hit is a grand slam?  ;D

[quote name="liltex" post="819652" timestamp="1279802876"] People in the work force get tested so why not test teachers/coaches/admin and especially bus drivers. [/quote] That is true but in my mind, what an adult does to his own body is his business from an employment standpoint. As long as it does not interfere with his job or endanger the public I don't really care. Now with teachers/admin, etc., I can understand the performance aspect of it. The employee needs to show up and ready to do the job. From a law enforcement perspective, I understand the fact that it can be a crime but is it the business of a school district to be enforcing or investigating criminal law? Their business should be to make sure that their employees show up on time and ready to do their job. If a substance interferes with that then it is an issue and even with a legal substance like alcohol. Children/students are a different issue entirely. What we do or require from or for children to protect them in no way has any relation to what an adult employee does. It is not tit for tat.

[quote name="WOSgrad" post="819236" timestamp="1279644376"] I say continue the testing.  [size=12pt][b]I am one of those that believes that the confirmed cases are so low because of the deterrent effect of the testing. [/b][/size]The $1 million in scheme of things is not that big of a price tag when we are talking about the health of our young men and women.  In fact, that is an amount that should not even touch the taxpayers.  As discussed in an earlier thread, by the next re-alignment, Texas will have almost 200 more teams in the playoffs games, which amounts to about 100 more playoff games which the UIL gets 15% of the gross...and that is just football.  All other sports pay a portion of the gross in post-season games to the UIL.   Off of this alone, they have more than enough to pay for a testing program in Texas. [/quote] You are correct.

[quote name="mat" post="818716" timestamp="1279383737"] Where were they bank fishing? Under lights? live or artificial? [/quote] Bank fishing under the lights. Last night all were on artificial.

They are back again tonight. I watched a couple of coworkers put a couple on the bank that were over 20" and a few other keepers by the time I left.

[quote name="bullets13000" post="818616" timestamp="1279319654"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=70019.msg818612#msg818612 date=1279318390] [quote author=bullets13000 link=topic=70019.msg818610#msg818610 date=1279318212] of course, they day i leave town.  and when i get back, we'll have company for a few days... CRAP! [/quote] You would have loved it last night, especially if you just wanted to catch fish. I caught almost 30 and they were still hitting when I left. [/quote] live bait or soft plastics? [/quote] All of the above. I couldn't find much live bait but when I did find some, I lost it in less than a minute. I got tired of using the cast net. I finally caught the most on about a 2.5" shad looking lure that I had just bought at Academy. It looked about the right size, shape and color of the shad so I tried it. I am heading back for some more. Like flyfishing, match the hatch. Throw a bait at 'em that looks like what they are eating.

[quote name="bullets13000" post="818610" timestamp="1279318212"] of course, they day i leave town.  and when i get back, we'll have company for a few days... CRAP! [/quote] You would have loved it last night, especially if you just wanted to catch fish. I caught almost 30 and they were still hitting when I left.

[quote name="BaseBow" post="818549" timestamp="1279299116"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=70952.msg818525#msg818525 date=1279293149] I predict that when they play almost 4 months from now, Nederland will be on their 5th quarterback  and will win anyway. [/quote]That is not funny if its your kid at QB :D [/quote] Maybe. If he is the 5th quarterback, he gets the win at LCM.  ;D

You know, I guess for a forum anything is game for discussion but Nederland and LCM don't play for several months. It could almost as valid discussing their chances in the 2012 season.  :D