Striprman, in your quest to be different and ask the hard questions and make people think, you might help 1 person out, but why make your goal so low? You can help a lot more if you PARTICPATE in our community and stop going out of your way to punch holes in it. Your "posting ability" was not pulled (hence another page of drivel), the reason your ability to start new "threads" was restricted was so you wouldn't start 10 rediculous posts per day. You were driving the people you want to "help" flippin' bonkers
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You almost hit the nail on the head when you said fishing today would not be like the good old days. It will never be the same but for a different reason than lack of fish. It will be because of lack of access. More open space is lost every year due to construction, town resolutions, anti-fishing groups exclusion zones, new property owners not being as friendly as the original people, people being pissed whan anglers or even teenagers move on to the beach in hordes. We have a responsibility to protect what we have for access and one big way to protect it, and maybe even get some back, is to not over populate a spot. If we don't, we all be bumping into each other in boats - be freikin "Oar Rage" or something out there. Maybe we're tiliting at windmills here and its a lost cause because of all the spot puking between the net, maggies, shows, papers, and books. Its probably too late now anyway, but damn we should as a community TRY to reverse the tide on access.
If you want to share everything, invite some people to fish with you and show them your "spots". But don't ruin a spot in your quest to be the Great Oracle of Keene Street.
From one of the greatest films of all time "Lighten Up, Francis"