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

[Slipknot]

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No matter what anyone thinks of my opinions , one thing is for sure .That place has recieved a huge volume of press in a real short time."

Yep, you're right about that it seems, and it's only gonna get more it seems, too bad

"Fishing there or anyplace else where there are private owners is a privledge not a right. They can do what they want"

We mention the canal all the time too and there are private owners there also, but we don't talk pole numbers usually so it doesn't burn the canal by speaking of it. And the owners do do what they want, including dumping grass clipping over the fence onto you right MikeP?

time to buy a boat soon, the surfcaster is going the way of the dinosaur sad I'm more comfortable on shore and like the challenge better, I guess I'll stick it out and fight the seals and plovers and mung and private access issues.............

[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

[JohnR]

Bill - I partially agree. Yes, Cutty has been talked about an awful lot - IMO too many spots are talked about online and in print toooo much. Believe me I've taken a lot of hear for that. Talking in generalities I think is more acceptable. Talking in reports is what I feel does the most damage. You've seen what can happen when that occurs.

I do think that specific spots and reports should be better handled mouth to mouth, over the phone, and between club members. ALL of the pertinent information can be handled that way - not just what the writer choses - and imoprtant things like access, parking, when to be quiet and such can be discussed angler to angler. That is IMO safer for our sport.

Fishing reports and specific spots are sexy and they sell. Personally I think the potential for damage is not worth the sexiness of running reports. I think we as anglers need to be more responsible with that so WE don't loose the access we have. I'd rather err on the side of caution than make the Report buck. I think that is responsible.

Has S-B worked Cutty? Yes. Are we 5% of the talk about Cutty? Maybe. Are we repsonsible with how we talk ablut Cutty? I think so, perhaps as not as much as we could. That goes the same for a lot of places. But I do believe we are far more responsible with specific spots AND reports than just about any other "media" source.