Captain Mike, There is nothing wrong or illegal about floating through someone else's property. On this particular stretch of river, fishing from a boat is illegal, but there's nothing wrong with using the boat to get from point A to point B.... You have to get out of the boat to fish though. That is what I was doing. I was staying well with in the high water marks, in fact, I was up to my knees in water when this guy came down and started in on me. My brother and I told him that we were with in our legal rights to be there and that we hadn't trespassed to get to where we were. He didn't like that answer. We started to argue and the next thing we knew, this guy had pulled a gun on us! I don't really care if you do own a piece of river front property, you don't have the right to start brandishing a firearm around..... At kids! Like I said in a previous post on this subject. Land owners should know their legal rights. If you don't want to have to deal with this type of stuff, then don't buy riverfront property. Contrary to what all these landowners think, they do not own the river! In Wa. state it's impossible for an individual to own the river. You may own both sides of it right down to the high water mark, but as far as that river is concerned, you have no legal claim to it. And as far as guns go, if rich, old men wouldn't run around pulling their guns on inocent kids, then I'd have never felt the need to ever start to carry. You should stop and take a look at your own logic before you go off all half- cocked about property rights, and you should definately know where you stand legally before you start pulling pistols on people..... You don't have to agree with it, but that's the law.