Reel Basshole

According to the ruling, they need to own the bed and have the rights to fishing from the state to deny access. That's it. Which I am sure the rights to fishing the section of water they directly own out in the main body of water, is not hard for marinas to obtain. Especially ones in Ithaca area with ties to Cornell. Again, go make your argument, but it'll be up against precedent. Good luck to anybody.

The one at East Shore you can try to make your argument, but any Marina that has a channel way in and out, like Treman or Myers, the decision by the NYS Court of Appeals in 1997, in the case of Douglaston Manor vs. Bahrakis, is pretty straight forward. That's consider private property and the owner of the Marina (City of Ithaca and Town of Lansing in those two particular cases) owns the fishing rights in those waters. It's not fishable, even by boat launched elsewhere on the lake. Same holds true, throughout the state, not just Cayuga.

It's not legal. https://dec.ny.gov/regulatory/guidance-and-policy-documents/ogc-9-enforcement-guidance-public-rights-of-navigation-and-fishing Section III, part B, last line.