So Paul, when can we go to Crab Creek? I strongly suspect your answer to this question will be some variation on 'I don't know or trust you' or 'But you're not one of my closest fishing buddies'.
This forum is by and for responsible flyfishermen. If you're disturbed by an open discussion among your peers that you perceive as threatening your secret fishing preserve, then perhaps you'd be better served by joining some other list instead. Kent Lufkin >This watershed is one of the places where I've employed the policy of "I will >take you there but I won't tell you about it just in passing, and then I will >ask you to follow the same policy". The people that I've shown it to all felt >that this was the best policy as well; once they spent a day there. People >who haven't checked it out in person don't have much of an appreciation for >the situation and often pass on information quite freely without regard to >impact because they don't really know what they are talking about. It's small >water with no protective regulations. I think it was inappropriate to discuss >any details of this fishery in a public forum (searchable Internet database) >like this. Would you announce such info in a crowded auditorium? I hope that >in the future when someone asks about a fragile unprotected fishery they will >get a response via private email instead of a forum that is subject to public >search engines. > >Have fun >Paul
