Actually, Drew, you have more running water access than you know in N.E. Kansas, but you do have to hunt it down. The Corps of Engineers controls a surprising amount of waterway coming into their reservoir projects. Streamway parks and trails are also getting more common on some of the smaller semi-urban waterways in the area. Sometimes they require a county permit, but fishing is usually allowed and can be surprisingly good. I wish we had freer water access myself, but with access laws getting tighter rather than looser around the country, I don't see it happening. Oh, almost forgot-- track down a copy of the book Paddling Kansas.