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North Branch Verdigris River is a public river in Chase County, Greenwood County and Lyon County, Kansas, managed by State of Kansas (public / navigable water). You can fish it on a Kansas fishing licence; bank access is at bridge crossings, KDWP access points and public parks. Kansas riverbeds are private property up to the ordinary high-water mark except on a few federally-declared-navigable reaches, so wading or bank fishing away from a public access point needs the landowner's permission. Public access confirmed via public-trust river.
A southeast-Kansas Ozark-fringe river (Neosho, Verdigris, Fall, Spring, Elk, Cottonwood) — clearer and more gradient than the rest of the state. Smallmouth and spotted bass, largemouth bass, channel and flathead catfish, crappie and carp.
It runs roughly 27 miles through the Southeast Kansas region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish; spotted bass, black crappie, common carp are also on record. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Shaw Creek and Bloody Creek.
Species from PiscaMaps water-type profiles, KDWP trout designations and hand research.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Kansas. Snagging, gigging, bowfishing and trotlines/limblines for carp, gar, buffalo and catfish are legal on most waters with their own gear-tagging rules; some state fishing lakes and city parks post gate hours after dark.
Boats: Most Kansas rivers are waded or floated by canoe, kayak and jon boat; the Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and lower Neosho take full-size boats.
Bank & bivvy camping: Kansas river law is unusual: the streambed itself is private property up to the ordinary high-water mark on most rivers (only federally-navigable stretches of the Missouri, lower Kansas and lower Arkansas are public streambed). You can float through on the water, but wading or bank access away from a bridge right-of-way, KDWP access point or public park needs the landowner's permission.
Tackle: Statewide largemouth/smallmouth/spotted bass limit is usually 5 in combination (15-inch minimum on many reservoirs); walleye/saugeye/sauger 5 in combination (some waters have a slot or minimum length); wiper/white bass generous; channel/blue/flathead catfish generous with a protected slot on some trophy-catfish lakes; crappie 50 combined on most water. Check the current KDWP fishing regulations summary for this water.
Anyone 16 or older needs a Kansas fishing licence — the resident annual is about $29.50, the non-resident annual about $97.50, with non-resident 1-day (~$14.50) and 5-day licences also sold. A separate trout permit (~$14.50) is required in addition to the fishing licence to keep trout at KDWP's winter community-lake trout program waters. Kansas residents 75 and older need no licence, and anyone under 16 fishes free. Buy from KDWP at ksoutdoors.com. A Kansas fishing licence covers this river where it is public. Kansas riverbeds are private property up to the ordinary high-water mark except on a few federally-declared-navigable reaches (the Missouri, and short stretches of the lower Kansas and Arkansas) — float through freely, but bank/wading access away from a bridge, KDWP site or public park needs landowner permission.
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