I wasn't gonna post but I have to because I have know JohnR long
before he created this great site!!! 1st of all there is nothing wrong with the site just the way it is. Pretty soon you are gonna have so many forums that your gonna need 50 moderaters.
I don't care how many techniques you put on the internet, Most people will try them once, it won't work, and they will never try it again. YO Yoing is no secret, it has been around for years and if you know how to do it and do not want to share the info, because of promises to fishing friends or so forth, and respect of fellow anglers, then do not participate, then you are in no better shape then if you did not say anything.
How many articals have been written by people on this board as how too's in all of our favorite magazines. Come on people!!! You share your knowlendge for money or fame or because you enjoy helping people catch fish in this sport. How many people do you really think are gonna go out and spend hours riggin pogies to yo -yo and then go fishing, its just not gonna happen.
I teach people how to fish every freakin day on the water and they will only get out of it what they put into it and no matter how many techniques you use only time on the water and dedication will make it work for you. Most people are too lazy to try any extreme or complicated methods to go striped bass fishing, they want the most quickest and best idea for right now!!!
If someone want to post how to do something then so be it. if you don't want to add to it or say anthing don't add to it and stay off the post from offending and starting %$%$%$%$ with anybody who did post it. In my estimation you guys have way too much time on your hands and instead of bitching back ond forth go fishing. Life is too freakin short people.
I respect and have learned from many great fisherman over the years who do not look for fame or any other variety of the sort, they just are good at what they do as time has tought them, they love the sport and they have some things they just do not share. If someone asks me not to divulge it I DON"T, but that does not mean somebody else knows how to do and will share it with somebody else or on the internet. Thats Life, get over it!!!!
I agree with the spot issue because some places just can't take alot of pressure, but you can best believe if people are weighin in fish at a local shop they are gonna send there patrons to where fish have been caught so as to build up trust with there clientel, does that mean the fish are there. NO THEY SWIM!!! what was the wind, what was the tide, what time of day was it. Any good fisherman knows there are alot more factors that play into catching fish that just the spot it was caught and what they caught it with.
Sorry JohnR, but I just could not take it any more. love you and love the site, stay strong and just keep it as it is. If you don't like it here leave, if you do stay. If you can't add anything good to a thread then keep your mouth shut. if you want to be positive and add something go ahead. Let the moderator decide if it is to much information. Tight lines everybody I am going fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!
