How much info do you share ?

[ET Fish]

No one ever asks me!

[cva34]

When they ask me I tell Them;;;in "corner if mouth" or out there "in Water"

[cva34]

When they ask me I tell Them;;;in "corner if mouth" or out there "in Water"

What I share is anything thats helpfull ...Knowledge...But not exact spots...(cause next time you go fishing there may be boats waiting in line at your Hot SPOT)...

[gatoloco]

I am a guide and i will tell what worked for me, the area i caught fish, depth and that is it. No disrespect I am on the lake 250 days a year and spend allot of time on the water with inserting structure and with all the new electronics it is hard to hide the structure.

[catchNgrease]

I will share color,depth and terrain type and that's it.

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[Pithon]

Here's my thoughts, being a Pastor im sure I may look at things different than most and that I understand. I have found that it is impossible to be too good to people, it is impossible to give too much to people, it is impossible to love people too much, but I can certainly not do enough of all these things.
Matthew 5:42

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“Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.”*

I know people think others don't deserve because they don't put the time into it, but the reality is some people don't have the time, money, ability or equipment that the Lord has blessed others with, so why not share all we can. Lets us remember who gave us all the fish we catch, all the time we have to enjoy them, because all good things come from the Lord. Just my thoughts, God Bless.

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I just wish the Lord would tell me some of his hot spots, cause he's a better fisherman than I'll ever be. Lol

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[river scum]

real fishermen don't ask where. lol

if it a huge lake/res. I could see tossing some bones. a few hundred acres is another story. small lakes have been wiped out(keepers fished down) around here from internet talk. places for ice fishing access ruined and shut down from abuse and trash scattered all over. I have seen the ramp full, this year, on a small local lake that was featured in game n fish magazine as "bass heavin". used to see maybe 2 other boats during the week before.

consequences

as a guide your showing them where to dig your gold!

[Yak Fish]

It depends on the situation as to what I'm willing to share. I was seeing an older retired gentleman, always fishing for crappie on a couple of the same lakes I like to fish. One day as I paddled my kayak under the bridge he was fishing (an over-fished community hole), he watched me boat a couple of fish I caught away from the bridge pulling cranks. He asked how many I'd caught and at the time, it was 4 times as many as he'd caught with minnows & jigs (48 to 12). I turned around above the bridge and caught another, bigger one, which I gave him as I passed. He wanted to know how I was out-fishing him so badly, so I told him to follow me back down the lake & watch. I boated 5 more and lost a couple on the way back to the ramp. He caught up to me again at the ramp and said he was impressed that a guy in a kayak was catching so many & wanted to learn the technique. I took about 15 minutes and explained what I was doing & not doing and that I was catching fish that nobody else was fishing for. I even gave him a couple of crankbaits to get him started. The next year, when I was at a different lake, I saw him going to the boathouse to pay to launch. I asked how it had been going & he said that he'd just been catching a few. He didn't recognize me with no hat on & wearing my glasses, away from my kayak, so I asked if he'd been catching much on the crankbaits I gave him. As soon as he realized it was me, he shook my hand & patted me on the back & broke out his phone to show pictures of the fish he'd been catching at another lake 60 miles from here. He'd caught a personal best (2lbs. 8oz.) and boated 82 crappie on his last trip out. His wife begs him to go fishing so he might bring home more & bigger fish than he used to. He told me that I completely changed the way he fished and his expectations for catching quality fish. Another guy waiting in line to pay to launch saw the pictures on his phone over his shoulder & the retired guy answered that those fish were from a lake over an hour from here & he hoped the fishing was as good here...but he didn't know if it would be. Then he winked one eye at me and made the motion of a key turning in his mouth, like he was locking his words in & the secret was safe with him. It made me feel good.

We caught up on the lake a few hours later & he was doing well on a different part of the lake that I never fish. I hope we get the chance to fish together soon, but I haven't seen him on the water this year.

Jim