Originally Posted by
ksfowler166
Some of you guys should try reading Kansas law before commenting on it.
From the 2013 Fishing Regulations pg.6 "Unless otherwise posted, all streams in Kansas other than the Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas rivers are under private ownership of adjoining landowners. Those three large rivers are public up to the normal high-water line."
From the 2013 Hunting Regulations pg.5 "Landowner permission should be obtained before pursuing wounded game onto private property. If you cannot find the landowner or get permission, contact your local natural resource officer."
So not only is it legal to hunt deer in the three stated river bottoms, if you wound one you have legal options to retrieve it.
***You haven't said a thing in your post that we haven't already stated and covered in this thread other than if the deer went above the high water mark he'd have to get permission to retrieve it!!! That really is a given in most jurisdictions and is just common courtesy to the landowner even if it isn't. The problem with that is if there isn't a good blood trail from below the high water marks, the landowner would have good reason to believe the guy was a poacher and actually shot the deer on his private land. That's why a number of us have stated that it's not really worth the hassle to risk alienating the landowners or put yourself in a position to possibly be arrested for poaching.