If a creek that is 3 ft. wide runs through your backyard does that give me the right to be in your yard whenever I want as long as I'm in the water?

That's why the state designates streams and rivers and "navigatable" and "non-navigatabl." If it's "navigatable" then you may hunt, fish, or trap as long as your w/in the "high water" marks. Basically inside the grass line or flood markings. You can be on the sandbars as long as it's w/in those confines.

If it's a "non-navigatable" stream then the adjoining property owners own that property including the stream. Say you wanted to push the issue of the state owning the water...........as soon as any part of your body touches that creek bed your tresspassing. Secondly, how can you say that a person's property stops at the waters edge? If that was the case I'd have to have a surveyor out everytime it rains!