Old River lake in Scott, AR has some possessive owners on it. That was my favorite lake when I lived down there, had various levels of "desires" expressed by owners about their docks and/or nearby brush piles. One old fart starting throwing rocks, not at me, but at the water to scare the fish. Only made me want to fish it more, which I did. Nice little triangle of brush he had out there, nice of him to provide that for us.

I did violate the no touch rule one day, got hung up, broke off, jig was exposed between two slats, noticing kids toys and indicators that young ones played there I eased up to remove the jig, fella came out getting snotty about me be ON his dock. I wasn't on it, but had a hand on it as I leaned in to get the jig. Trying to explain my thoughts didn't help, he told me to stay far away or he'd call the cops. "Good luck with that", is all I had to say.

They own the structure, not the water under it nor anything they've placed on the bottom as fish attractors.

Be respectful, but don't take any crap.