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I'll give you a good example of what can happen when a single spot gets too much play on just one internet website.
Down here on Long Island there's a place called Tobay Beach. It's owned by the Town of Oyster Bay. For as long as I've lived here, the Town offered a night fishing permit, to park after hours in the town lot, to anyone who wanted one. They never issued more than 400 or 500 permits a year. This is a rarity in these parts, as almost every other Town on the Island restricts night parking (if they allow it at all) to residents of the Town.
Last year, there was a good run of fish and one of the local "Fishing Legends"---who also has a public access cable TV show and a radio show---started blabbing on his website about Tobay Beach and how easy it was to get a night permit. All of a sudden, people from 3 states started running to the Town Hall to get their permits. Some weren't even fishermen. They just wanted to park there after hours for whatever reason. The place also got trashed---you had guys relieving themselves in the tunnel under the causeway, garbage and dead bait left all over the place. At the end of the season, the Town fathers took inventory and saw that they had issued over 2,000 night fishing permits and the place had become a zoo. So, take three guesses what the solution was. Yup---from here on out, that permit, and some good nighttime fishing access, is restricted to residents and taxpayers of the Town.
Talking about "places"--say Montauk, the Canal or one of the bigger Cape beaches---isn't all that bad. Narrowing it down to spots---say, False Bar, Pole # xxx or Gate x---really creates problems.
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