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bpet wrote:You spend too much time on the water and not enough time in the woods. You really need to fix that. Much simpler to understand the laws.

I think I'll work on that.

The following are the CoE lakes in Texas:

Aquilla Lake
Bardwell Lake
Belton Lake
Benbrook Lake
Buffalo Bayou
Caddo Lake
Canyon Lake
Cooper Lake
Ferrells Bridge Dam Lake O' The Pines
Georgetown Lake
Granger Lake
Grapevine Lake
Hords Creek Lake
Joe Pool Lake
Lavon Lake
Lewisville Lake
Navarro Mills Lake
O.C. Fisher Lake
Pat Mayse Lake
Proctor Lake
Ray Roberts Lake
Sam Rayburn Reservoir
Somerville Lake
Steinhagen Lake
Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir
Texoma Lake
Waco Lake
Wallisville Lake
Whitney Lake
Wright Patman Lake

Only lakes I can think of that I've been to and are not on the above list would be Toledo Bend, Lake Corpus Christi, Eagle Mountain, & Lake Worth. I'm sure there are others, but that's what comes to mind.

I just did a board search on "corps" and got two pages of hits. Interesting reading.

On edit... I've been to Buchanan, LBJ, Inks, & Marble Falls which are not on the CoE list.

Search the board - a recent thread details a poster being stopped on the lake by a game warden, asked for ID, since GW is a LEO the poster had to produce his CHL (he was armed), GW asked if poster was armed, poster replied yes, GW told poster to get his blankety blank weapon off the lake NOW and NO you cannot leave it in your truck at the boat ramp parking lot as that is still Corp of Engineers property!

I'll let one of the professional legal eagles chime in, but to me... the federal prohibition against firearms on COE property trumps any and all state regulations because you are not on state property, you are on federal property.

Note also, that if we are talking lake Texoma, you have the federal COE regs to consider plus state regs from both TX and OK (eg the unique Texoma fishing license).

Certainly NOT on any Corps of Engineer lake! There are 31 of them listed for TX. The listing can be found here:

http://corpslakes.usace.army.mil/visito ... m?state=TX

Select "print friendly" if you want to see the full list at one time. As to the boundaries of the Corps property, you'll have to figure it out... I never have.

Example, Lake Lewisville is a COE lake. No CHL, nor even possession of a handgun, there period. What about in the campgrounds such as Hidden Cove Park? Am I legal sitting around the campfire on the park grounds? Am I legal just having one in my vehicle/RV? Since you can't have it in the boat, can you leave it in your car parked at the boat ramp?

There have been previous discussions on this subject here on this board. Reading them may give you some insight, or just even more confusion and questions. Good luck.