Some friends of mine were wading in a small stream in Ithaca, NY and were told they were trespassing by a cemetary worker. When they pointed out that they had entered the stream from public land and had not left the streambed for the length of their walk, the worker replied that the stream itself was off limits to trespassers, regardless of where you enter. My friends are still trying to figure out who was in the right.

The stream doesn't have any fish that I know of, by the way. Name is "Coy Glen"

Does anyone know the actual law on this?