While up at our vacation home in Brinnon last week,I just happened to drive to the Quilcene to see if any fish hit the holding pond yet.As I thought.No!!

What I did see where you walk over the hill by the bridge and in a couple other places were signs placed by WDFW that said the Quilcene had been deemed to be not navigable water.That if you were standing in the river on private property,That most of the property on that river is owned by the landowners.Including the river bottom you were indeed trespassing if you didnt have permission from the owner to be there.

It explicity explained and showed a map of the access that was set up by WDFW and said that if there is as much trouble there this year as in years past(ie.snagging,trespassing,and garbage dumping) the river might be closed completely to fishing.

I explained to my wife,from what I understood about navigable water.From postings by CFM and others that the navigable waters laws were a federal thing and that The state cant supercede it.If a person had enough time and money they could probably beet the trespassing.I dont have the time or the money,Plus I probably only think thats what I read instead of being true,so I could be wrong about that part. You might do some research and save yourselves a bunch of trouble.