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[b]Now my feeling is that I don't have a problem with it as long as the credit is given. Not in a monetary or personally my name or this site (not that I'd mind but I doubt OTW would print it without me forking out for a quarter page ad) , JMO, but if you sincerly note in the article where you've gotten this info and that it is not all yours, I wouldn't be against including it. That is how I feel but on this case I can't speak for the others that offered suggestions. That's up to them. You say that you will show that this is a collection of yours and of others, I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. If I were to read the article, and I will if it's published and felt that we were misled, I would have a problem with it. As reputations develop on the Internet, especially when it comes to fishing stripers, they are lasting and few people forget.
I think the "John" part was they were tryiing to grab my attention...
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John, I appreciate your comments on the controversy that seems to have developed around this issue. And the last thing I want to do is leave anyone feeling like their ideas were "stolen", so let me start this by saying that if anyone has had second thoughts and would prefer to withdraw whatever tip they sent along, just post me a note and I'll not use their suggestion. That does get a bit complicated when that particular idea may have come from multiple responses, but I'll do the best I can with it.
Also, I've become almost as interested in the negative response that some folks have had to my request as I am about the original topic. I'm going to sit down with the editor (Gene Bourque) and review what's happened and see what his thoughts might be. I'll post that here on the forum...with the advent of the Internet as a major form of communication, it seems to be an issue that will likely repeat itself. Twenty years ago, in an article of this sort I would have called around to a few of my fishing buddies and said, "Hey Charlie, I'm doing this lure article and have you got any neat ideas to offer...", perhaps make a few calls to tackle shops and a lure manufacturer or two and that's how the piece got written. The only difference now, is I also posted the question here in a fishing forum. I thought some folks would have ideas that they did not want to necessarily make public - I know that when you've discovered something that works after a lifetime of paying dues you may not want to distribute it to the world - but I felt those folks would simply not offer a response.
A few respondents seem offended that I wil write an article that I am going to get paid for. Let me put it this way: I'm 62 years old and have been fishing for nearly 57 of those years. It has taken me almost as long to learn to write competently as it has to learn to fish successfully. To my mind, I've more than paid my dues in both areas. I don't mean it to be arrogant, but it is as much for how I write as it is for what I write that I'm paid at all and published regularly. I make no apologies for that and if anyone asks my help in attempting to become a published writer I will, and have many times, freely offer whatever assistance I can give.
Sorry to go on at length but I respect a person's concerns and I want to give those concerns a serious response.
Hope this helps bring additional perspective to the issue at hand.