Have you ever read this sign?
These rules are important for the safety and well-being of all of our Oakwood East Residents
Oakwood East Park Is Owned and Maintained By
The Oakwood East Homeowners Association, Inc.
and Is Not A Public Park
Children and adults
please stay out of the ponds for your own safety. There could be
fishhooks, tangled line, broken glass, or sharp pieces of building
materials in the water. We have even spotted a few poisonous snakes
in or near our ponds. When we experience heavy rains everything from
nails, broken glass or splintered boards are washed into the ponds from
construction materials used to build our addition's new homes.
Please be careful!
The path around both ponds is approximately a distance of one mile.
Fishing Regulations
This was taken from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife
web address:
http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/fishing.htm
General Regulations
IT IS UNLAWFUL TO:
• fish without carrying a license and a Fishing and Hunting Legacy Permit
or written evidence that you are exempt.
• fish upon the land of another without the consent of the owner, lessee
or occupant of such land.
License
Requirements/Exemptions
License Requirements
An Oklahoma resident or nonresident fishing license is required of all
persons who take, attempt to take or possess fish or other aquatic
dwelling organisms by any method in Oklahoma. Persons fishing the Red
River must have a valid Oklahoma fishing license unless exempt. Unless
exempt, anyone hunting, fishing or trapping must possess the Fishing and
Hunting Legacy Permit.
License Exemptions
• Resident owners or tenants, their spouses, parents, grandparents,
children and their spouses, grandchildren and their spouses who fish in
private ponds on land owned or leased by such owner or tenant. Persons
residing in another state who own land in Oklahoma but do not live on that
land are not exempt.
Oakwood East's Ponds are watershed lakes which
are owned and maintained by the Oakwood East Homeowners Association.
What are watershed lakes?
Watershed lakes, or flood control ponds, dot the Oklahoma landscape from border to border. But some anglers mistakenly believe that the public is entitled access to these ponds, which can create conflicts between landowners and envious anglers.
Because they are on private land, these flood control ponds are not open to public access. Most watershed reservoirs were, and still are, built with technical assistance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Primarily constructed to prevent flooding, these mini-reservoirs allow for increased agriculture and other land use opportunities downstream. Fisheries development is not a primary consideration when building or planning a flood control pond and, if there happens to be good fishing in one of these ponds, it is because the landowner has taken efforts to make it happen.
Permission to fish one of these ponds is entirely at the landowner’s discretion. If asked, many will allow responsible anglers to spend a day fishing their pond, but always ask first.
As taken from the Oklahoma Wildlife Department at this link: http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/whyitsfishing.htm
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