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    Quote Originally Posted by Cane Pole
    You guys can fish around my boat dock anytime. I know who owns the water. We all do. The docks are private, but it is on public land (water). Nothing dock owners can do about it except bitch. Some of the dock owners have more money than they have good sense. I know a few of them. We all must exercise common courtesy about such things. I have had bass fishermen throwing stuff around the dock as we sit and CRAPPIE fish. I am always polite. I just consider the source.

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    some bass fishermen act like they own the water . sitting in my little crappie machine they come into a creek and sut down that big 150 or some 200 hp within a few hundred feet and all i can do is grab something and hold on. if you git a bite or a pole falls off the boat you have just lost it. i wouldnt mind them fishing around my dock but if i was fishing off my dock i would ask politlet to moove on while i was fishing and if they didnt they wouldnt git a luer back i might even throw a brick at them . that would be like pulling up to some ones boat and start fishing . there is a big lake out there . dont hog my little world . papasage
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    Default This has been an interesting thread

    Dock fishing isn't much of an issue for us since we fish on state park lakes that don't have private docks. Even so, they don't let shore fishermen walk out on the rental docks to fish, mainly as a means of protecting the boats. They do allow fishing off the docks that hold the state rental boats. I suspect that people were stepping onto the docked pontoons and sailboats and getting a lot of gear caught in the rigging.

    When it comes to private docks, I think I would be unhappy to see someone fishng around my dock for two reasons: 1) I went to great expense to build and maintain it, and 2) liability. As litigious as our society has become, it's a sure bet that some lunkhead could sue the dock owner if he hit his head or damaged his boat on it. - Roberta
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    The lake that Adam is talking about has about 1000 miles of shore line, out of this 1000 maybe 100 miles of this doesnt have a dock on it. Finding open shore to fish is very tough for this lake. You would spend more time running and gunnin to get to open water than fishing. So having to fish around docks is the way it goes. Plus this lake gets very rough with the summer boats and even worse on the weekends. So most owners that do fish place beds around the dock so that dont have to get out on the water. So the owners better just get use to seeing fisherman around there docks all day. Crappie..bass fisherman are going to fish them. I wont fish a dock if the owner or someone is on the dock fishing or not fishing. Even if she is cute or not. And i usually leave a dock if someones comes down. But dock owners need to relize that they dont own the water and what is down in the water. Even if they put there, they only own the dock. I am not trying to bash anyone. Go to this lake once and you will see how rude and stupid people can be.

    Oh Adam, one thing about this lake.. we are lucky that we are fishing it this time of year. Since most dock owners are gone for the summer. In the summer some owners will have sprayers set up on the ends of dock. If you get to close fishing they will turn the sprayers on. So if you fish next summer better wear your raingear....
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    Default Sprayers!

    Quote Originally Posted by TAE73
    The lake that Adam is talking about has about 1000 miles of shore line, out of this 1000 maybe 100 miles of this doesnt have a dock on it. Finding open shore to fish is very tough for this lake. You would spend more time running and gunnin to get to open water than fishing. So having to fish around docks is the way it goes. Plus this lake gets very rough with the summer boats and even worse on the weekends. So most owners that do fish place beds around the dock so that dont have to get out on the water. So the owners better just get use to seeing fisherman around there docks all day. Crappie..bass fisherman are going to fish them. I wont fish a dock if the owner or someone is on the dock fishing or not fishing. Even if she is cute or not. And i usually leave a dock if someones comes down. But dock owners need to relize that they dont own the water and what is down in the water. Even if they put there, they only own the dock. I am not trying to bash anyone. Go to this lake once and you will see how rude and stupid people can be.

    Oh Adam, one thing about this lake.. we are lucky that we are fishing it this time of year. Since most dock owners are gone for the summer. In the summer some owners will have sprayers set up on the ends of dock. If you get to close fishing they will turn the sprayers on. So if you fish next summer better wear your raingear....
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    Default Yep sprayers!

    I tell ya this lake has its own breed of people, not all are this way. But some are, and they think the bigger the boat that they have the bigger they bullet proof. When a 32' scarab sinks becuase of rough water something is wrong. If you ever hear of someone talking about going to Lake of the Ozarks, I hope they dont have a boat under 28'. Unless they go in the dead of winter.
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    robert if you dont want any one fishing on your dock dont build it on taxpayers waters . if i built a house on your land you would have rights to it .all fishermen and boaters should use curtisey in their activities . and the dock owners should to but that is the way of humans not all will . papasage
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    Default Has anyone investigated state law?

    I wonder how far into the water the property rights extend of the property owners. The reason I ask is that when we took a stream monitoring class recently, we were warned not to wade in a streambed while testing unless we had the permission of the adjacent property owners. The water was public, but the stream bed is not. If that holds true on lakes, then I'm guessing that boaters are okay as long as they don't touch the dock. I'd still like to know if the dock owner is liable for damage done to a person's boat or the person himself (what the insurance industry calls an "attractive nusiance") . I'm sure it's something most people never think of when they build theri docks.

    Glad I'm too broke for it to ever be an issue for us, not that many Ohio lakes even have private property rights along the shore anyway. Know the law! That's your best defense if someone gets ugly with you. - Roberta
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    Default Fish here.....

    You guys ( or anyone) can fish around my boat dock anytime you want. The docks are private, but I know who owns the water. We, the people do. I have never had a problem with any fisherman. It is all about courtesy, respect for others, desency, and tact. I give it, I expect it in return.

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    A few years ago some kids swamped a canoe on Lake Hamilton and swam to a dock for safety where one of them was electrocuted due to faulty or damage wiring on the dock.

    I suspect the dock’s owner and their electrician (if they had one) had some liability in that situation but I never heard how it came out.
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