No, it never hurts to ask! I did this Spring, and got access to probabbly the best drift on one of my favorite streams. All I need to do is help rake leaves in the fall once or twice, and give her a couple fillets every so often... Easy as can be to get the chance to really have banner days! She is too nice to just leave it at that though. I am planning on building her a nice sitting bench, out of stainless steel so she can go down, and watch the Salmon run the mountain, or just listen to the stream... It is so worth it to make friends with folks like that. They are usually really generous, and will turn out to be great friends almost always. Plus you get to fish their sweet piece of the pie!