Mixed bag, I’ve done jetties where I have walked along, asked how they were catching and told them I was going in, please do not cast on the bubbles and not had a problem. Once a fisherman was casting way out for flounder, I told him they were right by his feet but he didn’t believe me. When I entered I goosed two into my bag and handed them up to him, then all of the fishermen told me what they were looking for.
Been hooked twice, once on the zipper pull and I had to cut the line. Another time one got my glove. Both idiots were casting right toward my flag. I’m just glad neither hooked the BC bladder! Got tangled once on a fin and he kept trying to reel me in rather than let me untie it so I had to cut it before he set a hook into me.
When I find fishing equipment on the bottom I give it to the fishermen, one I don’t need it and two it might bring karma.
There are some spots I avoid like the Avon jetty on Shark River in NJ because there are just too many lines in the water