When I joined this site 11 years ago I still had a flip-phone and a pager. These days everyone has a smart-phone and instant access to the WWW and information travels in an instant.
I am all for actual "fish talk", lures, what's working, posting up a pic or two of a decent fish but as far as actually typing into a thread a spot that I fish that thousands of people will see within 3 minutes of me typing it, no thanks. Generalizations, fine but specifics, no.
That is what PM's are for and they do get utilized and I have no problem sharing info that way so long as the person I share it with does not then post it for all to see.
Most hard-core fishermen/surfcasters have taken years to learn their spots and how/when to fish them. Many of these spots are in areas that cannot handle crowds of fishermen and sharing them, even here, would jeopardize everything we have worked so hard to learn.
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