Mar T - it is a mind set. It comes from giving up stuff and getting burned. Time & time again. Besides - you're right, nothing really special about that spot anyway. Not knocking it just doesn't have trmemndous promise for big fish... Now I know you said don't try to explain but I'm gonna try anyway - read it and try to understand where some of us are coming from - thanks...
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Wow - just saw all this. MarT - it's all about balance. If "Joe who know his crap" says ABC is on fire - 40 cars will be there the next night - 80 on a weekend. Fact of life. Half the spots I fish have limited access & limited parking and THEN you gotta walk 1/2 a mile to a mile to fish where you want. If I posted some of those spots, not only would I be a pariah amonsgt some of my peers the spots would be BURNED. "No Parking" signs would be up quicker than you can dunk some stinky old squid. It's already happend - Internet & Books burned spots, Access is being LOST, Year by Year there are more spots that you CAN'T access. So what do I do? Should I go and share what little of the not so well known is left? So instead of encouraging people to learn how to fish and to figure things out, I should point out the spot? Park the car for 'em and tell them what time to cast behind rock C?
A few years ago I was fishing one of my favorite spots that I'm so greedy for not sharing with anyone else. A place where there are certain unwritten rules with the neighborhood that are adhered to so fishermen & residents can coexist (that fine line before the "No Parking" signs go up). I ran into a guy there, chatted for a little bit. Until he told me that it was his 1st time fishing there, he was from Philly, and he heard about the spot on the Internet - I crapped my drawers. This spot CAN'T handle one night of being posted on the Internet.
Other spots are places shown to me in confidence by others, do I betray their trust by blowing a spot on the net?
More & more I see a progression of those that get "IT" and those that can't. Those that get "it" offer assistance to help anglers get better but don't hand over the kitchen sink and some don't get it and keep trying to give it away and others bitch that nobody is giving it to them. It's not being handed over on a silver platter and it shouldn't be. Give a Man a Fish will fead him for a day - Teach a man to fish will feed hime for life. Teaching someone to fish isn't knots and tackle and gear so much as it is encouraging someone to learn the nuances of fishing so they figure a lot out on their own. When someone starts learning stuff on their own and really start clicking - they can often do the same with other aspects of fishing...
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Red - follow the watch as it goes side to side, you're getting sleepy, you're getting ready to spill yer guts on yer new spot....