Fish talk

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by stripermaineiac

does anyone share fish info on this site anymore or is it just a bitch fest. when i ist joined this site there was loads of sharing an fun things talked about.Now its all about spot burning an people afraid to share due to being hammered about it. we need to remember where we all came from. We weren't born experts. we all started somewhere that another angler showed us the way. Sharing info, ideas,spots,lures an so on is where it's about. Sorry to vent but we need to share to grow. If others didn't share we wouldn't know what we do today. Ron

Well said Ron.... it's a sign of the times I guess...

[JohnR]

I think it all needs to be shared, but spots are best shared between people, in person. I know it is a bit of a third rail but some people just go scanning sites and FB for spots.

But these days - even more so than in the past - nothing is secret

A lot of what we did here has moved on to FB, rather than a model where people would come to one place and discuss in this more centralized space, now more has moved to the decentralized of FB

[spinncognito]

When I joined this site 11 years ago I still had a flip-phone and a pager. These days everyone has a smart-phone and instant access to the WWW and information travels in an instant.

I am all for actual "fish talk", lures, what's working, posting up a pic or two of a decent fish but as far as actually typing into a thread a spot that I fish that thousands of people will see within 3 minutes of me typing it, no thanks. Generalizations, fine but specifics, no.

That is what PM's are for and they do get utilized and I have no problem sharing info that way so long as the person I share it with does not then post it for all to see.

Most hard-core fishermen/surfcasters have taken years to learn their spots and how/when to fish them. Many of these spots are in areas that cannot handle crowds of fishermen and sharing them, even here, would jeopardize everything we have worked so hard to learn.