Lake / inlet stream boundary?

[trollin4trout]

Some lakes, (like Detroit) are open all year but the streams running into them are closed during some periods of the year. The question then becomes "what is the defining line between the lake and the stream?". I often fish at the mouth of the streams at Detroit and other lakes and I'll usually go up into the current until it seems I would be "rising above the level of the lake" if I went any further.

That's the boundary I use, but since I've never seen a definition or been stopped by a game warden at that point- I really have no idea. Anyone know the answer to this?


Still trout fishing every Sat.-how about you? Jim

[Old Coot]

From page 11, 2004 Synopsis

Lake _ The slack water portion of all lakes, ponds and reservoirs; excluding beaver ponds and tide-gate sloughs.