If you want to fish Cuttyhunk.... you better start exercising those legs.

[beamie]

Boy this thread is churning some opinions.

Just think about the numbers of people who read the stories of Cutty whether recent stories on the net or from an oldtimer at the shop. The number of people who hear and read about the stories but never do actually go/get a chance to fish there far exceed the number of people who actually do.

So is it ok to finally go make the trek to Cutty because you read the story and saw the pic of Churchs bass...or talked with Otnic at a meeting about his fish.....but you can't if you happened to read about it on a site.

This thread is reading this way........I have been going there on and off for years and the internet ruined it.......So you have yours and no one else "new" can try it?......Where and how did the people who went there in the past hear about Cutty.....but that way was ok.

The fact is that fishing is popular and is on the upswing of popular since the recovery of the bass numbers. People have a little money in thier pocket and want to make the trip out there....so be it, you can't change it, there are no grandfather rules saying I heard about this place before you so you can't come.

When the day comes where the bass cycle is on the downturn and fishing is real slow, the number of people going out there will drop, internet or no internet, high gas prices or low gas prices, eels or no eels.

Merry X-mas

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by beamie

Boy this thread is churning some opinions.

Just think about the numbers of people who read the stories of Cutty whether recent stories on the net or from an oldtimer at the shop. The number of people who hear and read about the stories but never do actually go/get a chance to fish there far exceed the number of people who actually do.

So is it ok to finally go make the trek to Cutty because you read the story and saw the pic of Churchs bass...or talked with Otnic at a meeting about his fish.....but you can't if you happened to read about it on a site.

This thread is reading this way........I have been going there on and off for years and the internet ruined it.......So you have yours and no one else "new" can try it?......Where and how did the people who went there in the past hear about Cutty.....but that way was ok.

The fact is that fishing is popular and is on the upswing of popular since the recovery of the bass numbers. People have a little money in thier pocket and want to make the trip out there....so be it, you can't change it, there are no grandfather rules saying I heard about this place before you so you can't come.

When the day comes where the bass cycle is on the downturn and fishing is real slow, the number of people going out there will drop, internet or no internet, high gas prices or low gas prices, eels or no eels.

Merry X-mas

Yup

[whiplash]

I don't know how many of you guys are from the Cape and Islands - I mean born there. I was. And I fished all the Holy Grounds in the 50's and 60's and 70's and I could really b**** about all the folks that invaded the beaches and the "spots", the Feds coming in and screwing up the lower Cape, but I don't because I'm sure someone was b****ing about me coming in .Its all "progress" wether we like it or not. It was bad enough when it was just Saltwater Sportsmen and The Fishermen mags one article about the whiteperch in the Agawam back in the 60's and three years later you couldn't by a fish in that river. If you don't like the crowds -stay home -if you don't want someone else on your rock -don't post- this and the other sites are based on a common theme FISHING and sharing info . Nobody is fishing a spot for the first time ,we are always walking in some elses boot prints -accept. If some place gets shut down we have no one else to blame but ourselves. Get over it and try and be the best ambassadour(sp) for fishing that you can be and maybe fewer spots will be off limits. Sorry if I pissed anybody off but think about the locals its thier towns we are invading.
Merry Chritmas and be safe.
Jim