S-journey, it's just that the internet can overrun a spot in a heartbeat. We are by no means the largest bass site around but we still get a five hunder to a thousand people watching a day, that goes up on fridays too
. With a LOT of people watching, including the many that lurk and don't actually log in and participate, its easy to over run a spot. I've SEEN it, even to the point of having someone - not a member - send me an e-mail calling me an effin liar cause the he read the fish were there the day before by a report I made and the fish were'nt there the next day.
If you want to talk specific spots and share it with a fellow member here, that's fine, just do it in a PM. Otherwise I recommend speaking very generically. It's one thing to talk methods, and a lot of great method talk happens here, and its another to talk how to read water and certain situations 'cause you can apply that all over the place, it can be disastrous to narrow things to a finer detail than the name of a town. It's sad, but that's what happens.
So where does the line need to be drawn over what's good info and what's bad? Tough call. But I can honestly say that talking detail on a spot has far more negatives than positives on the Internet. I'm just trying to be completely honest and upfront when I say that. Some mods and site owners encourage "spot talk" in detail but if come October and I say I slammed 30#ers at Balstons on Friday, there WILL be an extra 25-50 people there the next night. The other bad thing is in tough spots that can't support much traffic. If I were to openly share all my knowledge and put up a post that Spot X is giving up the fat girls, but in order to get to spot X yoou had to park on this resedential street, cut thru the white house with the flag poles yard, try not to step on the cat, walk west for 300 yards, cross along the hedges behind the gazebo and follow the path on the left for 200 yards to spot X, step on the most sw exposed rock and cast between the xxxxxx cropping and the xxxxx . You get the idea, the locals would have the cops on paid duty keeping anglers out, plus someone (me likely) would be in court for tresspassing
- just gotta find the right balance