I know on a river I used to hunt, was told by the GW that on navigatable waterways, you can hunt them and can access the land to the normal vegetation line. That might be right on the bank or could be 100 yards on a big gravel bar...

Dave

Problem is that that Game Warden will tell you one thing and another will tell you another.Id go get the duck if its not clearly marked.The reason the law only applies to humans is because you cant tell a dog to leave your land.And rarely you can find a dog that knows what purple piant on a tree means,or what no tresspassing signs.woof woof.

Ok I talked to the GW a little bit ago. He said that as long as you don't have to get out of your boat to push/pull it over vegetation/sand bar (when accessing a slough off the main river) you can hunt it. Once you have to step foot out of your boat then you are illegal.

Sec. 62.0061. HUNTING ON OR OVER CERTAIN SUBMERGED LAND. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not hunt or take any wild animal or wild bird when the person is on or over privately owned land that is:

(1) submerged under:

(A) public fresh water due to seasonal or occasional innundation; or

(B) public salt water and located above the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries; and

(2) conspicuously marked as privately owned by a sign or signs that are substantially similar to the following:

POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING.

(b) This section does not apply to:

(1) fishing or to fish and other aquatic life;

(2) a person who:

(A) owns the submerged land; or

(B) obtains the landowner's consent;

(3) land that is dedicated to the permanent school fund and that is located within:

(A) the tidewater limits of this state; or

(B) the gradient boundaries of a navigable river or stream in this state; or

(4) land that is:

(A) submerged by public water; and

(B) located below the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries.

On the main river you are good but must be in your boat and it must be either anchored or staked in place.

TexasEd: That information was straight from the GW for the county I am hunting in. He actually told me that he has hunted in sloughs in the past

I respectfully disagree with the warden based on Sec. 62.0061 quoted above.

I have some distant relatives with land on the Navasota that has sloughs. They are on private property inside the fence line. They are only seasonally flooded and not part of the normal riverbed.

No, they don't let anyone hunt it.