Today while fishing Pierrepont Pond in Ridgefield. A guy came out of his house. And told me that where I was fishing on the pond was private property. He said that he was on the pond association. He said that anything past the island was private property. I told him that as far as I knew,the pond is one single pond. Not 2 separate ponds. And as long as I launch legally at the state launch. I have the right to fish the entire pond. Am I correct?

Years ago, I was on Quassy. As I'm passing a dock, a woman comes out to tell me, along with a wave of her hand, that everything in front of her dock is 'private'.

I ignored her, and fished that area very thorough. That really ticked her off. I got the impression that she was use to getting her way.

You can't fish in a permitted swim area - but really only town swim areas have the proper permits and marker buoys. Everything else is just ignorant yuppies running their mouths.

I just searched around a bit and didn't see any kind of restriction on portions of the lake.

I talked to the Deep and it appears the area after the island is private. And was told the Public Trust Doctrine only pertains to Salt Water. But the're still looking onto it. So after fishing this pond for almost 23 years. Now I can't go past the island where most of the fish are. A sad day indeed.