The access laws are similar to those in Mich. "Navigable water" is defined as rivers and creeks which were used to float logs during the great loggging period in Michigan.
Stan - What happens if the duck you shoot falls on land? In Mich, that would require trespass. The only time you can leave your boat or the streambed is to traverse around a deep hole or impediment which precludes your continuing down the river safely
And that law comes from about 1928-- Top Taggart had his employees fell large trees across his stretch of the Pine River, for his private trout fishing- When a "trespasser" had manuevered through to fish, Taggart had him arrested, but he appealed, all the way to the MI Supreme Court- whence cometh the "If an 8" dia. log can float through, open access is the law of the State-- Taggart donated big bucks to FSU in Big Rapids, the football field bears his name- made his $ in the oil and gas industry- The Ford family tried to block off a stretch of the Pigeon River, so canoers and tubers could not see their private cottages- As Hemingway once said to Scotty Fitzgerals- "The rich are different from us, Scott- they have way more $"-- Still true today- look at what Teddy Turner and his Frau then- Hanoi Jane, tried to do with their water and property in MT_ some years ago, but the locals were "powerfully pissed" at the Tedster for his audacity.. Such is life..
