Funny story. Quite a few years ago I get a call at work from one of my 3 teenage sons. “Dad, remember when you said all navigable rivers could not be blocked off and access must be allowed to these rivers”? He had heard me talk about the ongoing access/trespassing issues with the Devils River among many other rivers. “”This doesn’t sound good son. Why”? My son and his buddy are wade fishing in the river Squaw Creek right below the Squaw Creek dam. They come to a “No Trespassing” sign/fence across river. They continue onward because there must be better fishing under this fence or they wouldn’t have put the fence up....right? At the base of the dam below Squaw Creek they were picked up by the Nuclear Regulatory police(plant security) on private property and turned over to the Somervell County Sheriffs Dept. The sheriff took these two young men home but we had to go by the Sheriffs Dept when we got off work to pick up all their fishing tackle. The laws that allow access to ALL navigable waters in Texas? Evidently the Nuclear Regulatory Commission trumps them! Hey, at least my kids were getting arrested for FISHING! Way worse battles to fight in life!!!

Not all waterways are considered navigable, myth that everyone thinks to be true.

the property around the lake private so to get to the lake you have to trespass first.

You’re not technically trespassing, if you are in navigable water, don’t leave your vessel, and can freely navigate through all passages.

Come on guys. Stop analyzing the semantics of the story. It was (to me) a funny story of my son basically being arrested in Jr High for “TRESPASSING” onto the plants property to fish Squaw Creek below the dam. Nothing more.