I misinterpreted you "I know where I am at, you better keep your butt in the boat" as a threat that I hear all the time from where I am from. Landowners in my neck of the woods think they own the river bed and claim that they will protect themselves from tresspassers on "their land" and that getting out of a boat and placing a foot on the river bed constitutes tresspassing and an attack on their personal sovreignty cause their deed fradulently says they own half the river.


My post/question was about river rights and access and the law as it applies to public/private ownership and what constitutes trespass because most landowners really don't know near as much about the leagalities of the river running through their property as they think they do. I never brought up the hunting issue or shooting deer on private land.