Concealed carry legal while fishing?

[Bossassturtle]

Hey there everyone,

I came across this video on Facebook and after watching it everything seems pretty legitimate. Would LEO care to pitch in on their perspective! I’m fishing all the time just down the road from home and there’s some big cats and boars out at night sometimes.

https://youtu.be/Gi3YfSYYqzM

 

[berth]

Just to be clear, carrying a fishing pole around is not fishing.

Some of the comments on that video seems quite misleading to me, as well as some of the presentation. Seems to me the only time that person on the video could carry concealed legally in this context was when he was on the dock. Everything else is transport -- i.e. he's not fishing.

Folks may seem to think that carrying a Pocket Fisherman is some kind of ad hoc carry permit. "I'm always fishing."

For example, your "just down the road" fishing spot. Even if walking to the spot, you'd be required to carry unloaded and locked until you got to the fishing spot, and similarly for the trip back. You for sure could walk around your fishing spot, walk up and down the bank, change your fishing spot, but once you leave anything like the proximity of the water, you're no longer fishing. You're traveling. Walking back home or to camp is not fishing.

I am not a LEO.

 

[bojangle]

This is the section.

PC 25640.
Section 25400 does not apply to, or affect, licensed hunters or fishermen carrying pistols, revolvers, or other firearms capable of being concealed upon the person while engaged in hunting or fishing, or transporting those firearms unloaded when going to or returning from the hunting or fishing expedition.

 

[byke]

That's awesome. Anyone that goes for it, just make sure your trips are legit and take pics.

 

[buellistic]

Wait..
You can fish at nite now?

 

[orbframe]

Abuse the law/loophole and it will just end up being closed...

Exhibit A: open carry laws in California

 

[BillSmith]

Question comes up on Cal Guns intermittently. Here's the latest-

Fishing firearm carry loophole

 

[sanjuro]

Plus it is so useful to carry an unloaded firearm. Like buying condoms for the Unsullied.

Unless you were fishing or hunting while riding your motorcycle.

 

[FreeRyde]

Wait..
You can fish at nite now?

California Coastal waterways do not have curfew restrictions. Most lakes in the east bay have a curfew of 10pm.

 

[Beanzy]

I thought if you carry in a national park -- even without a fishing rod -- you're golden. Courtesy of Obama during his first administration. :laughing

 

[CDONA]

State laws are used in Nat. parks. No guns in fed. govmt. buildings anywhere.

 

[Beanzy]

So I Googled it:

Although it is now legal to carry loaded guns in national parks, guns cannot be fired except in rare circumstances. Hunting is illegal in most national parks except under special permits. Target practice also is banned. For national security reasons, guns cannot be carried into federal facilities within national parks.
Feb 22, 2010

National Park Service Gun Regulations.

 

[bergmen]

I thought if you carry in a national park -- even without a fishing rod -- you're golden. Courtesy of Obama during his first administration. :laughing

Only with a valid and current CCW license. Prior to the law, concealed carry was not permitted even with a license.

Dan