Boat docks on public lakes are kind of like mineral rights you don't own on your property that you bought. You put brush out beside the dock so you have a place for the grandkids to fish while they visit. OR You have a nice yard you have worked on for years and some oil company comes along and puts a pump out there for all to see. I'll fight tooth and nail for the rights of fishing any brush pile on the lake but I'm also a push over for the owner of the dock. There is to much water out there to make an enemy over fishing a dock that I know I didn't have any help in building or baiting. Offer the guy some help to bait the hole and maybe make a friend or make an enemy. The choice is yours. I hate going out of this world with enemies and hope I haven't made any with this thought. Ferdi aka Fred