Giving Out Your Honey Holes

[Mike2841]

I don't mind sharing most places, but there's always a few I keep to myself

[bigbill]

Funny

I was in Wal-Mart buying tackle years ago when a guy with his son walked up behind me at the register. The dad was a tad under the weather. He asked me where I fished. He went on to say about his son catching 10lb bass. But heckled me about telling me were it was. I know about most of the good fishing spots around me and hidden one too. The second he said it's deep in the woods I told him where it was not exactly but enough to say I knew the spot. He sobered up for a second and shut up. He kid looked shocked that I knew about it. This spot I don't tell. There is a six foot high Rocky ledge when you walk up to this pond. Off in a distance there are large black lines in the water moving. There big bass all over the place.

[J Francho]

The likelihood of sharing a spot is directly related to the size of the spot. There's good fishing on Erie.

[S10rman88]

Had a spot where we used to slam flounder while I lived in NC that luckily was a local establishment and only knew 4 people including myself (2 of the others were my friends who introduced me to the people who worked there) that could fish it.

 

 Can't say this is a secret spot but when I moved back to MD recently and got into bass fishing I decided to hit this pond right by my old work that I have never seen people fish except for one old guy years ago. Within the first couple of days caught multiple fish close to 3lbs with one that was over 3 (PB as well for me). This week everyday people have been asking if I catch stuff there and its kinda hard to lie a bit when you get slammed mid conversation haha. Either way its a public place so not much I can do if people decide to fish it hopefully everyone will be respectful and I would love it if everyone did catch and release.

 

When it comes to real honey holes if its a close friend I will definitely tell them as all my friends who fish all know what happens when you start blabbing about a great spot.

[Munkin]

There is a reason I do not post pictures or trip reports anymore. On another fishing board I use to frequent there was a guy local to me complaining about not being able to catch anything? Figured I would help out so I took him out in my boat to a spot on a spot type place and we wrecked them. At the end of the day I told him not to tell the world about this place or post it on the internet. Well the very next weekend he went back with a buddy and posted pics of all the fish they caught in his secret hole on the same forum. I was so ticked off that he did this after I specifically ask him not to. Luckily I was able to convince the Mod to delete all the pics and info that showed the location. Well he burnt that hole and was back to complaining how he couldn't catch anything so he sent me a PM asking for help. I told him to try the Atlantic Ocean as all the fish in the Potomac swam there.

 

Allen

[RoLo]

When I offer coordinates to a fellow angler, he can rest assured that it's a contact site.

On the other hand, sharing waypoints is not the same as divulging your favorite hotspots.

 

Roger

[Catch 22]

The likelihood of sharing a spot is directly related to the size of the spot. There's good fishing on Erie.

Huumph==spot burner

 

Its actually forbidden on some sites

 

I gave up a good spot to a fellow angler who eventually kept going there regularly with out me,but with others.Thru a series of other trips and events over the years we became bitter enemies .

 

After fishing for over 68 yrs and dealing with all sorts of people,my feelings about sharing a real honey hole is"don`t do it"

[KyAngler_1120]

On a large body of water I am not so much worried, but on the smaller bodies of water I tend to keep my knowledge to myself. The smaller water bodies that hold good fish may not stand up to large numbers of over fishing, so I tend to keep quite and enjoy my fishing spot.

[HoosierHawgs]

Looks like you just learned the hard way. I've learned the hard way too. Maybe not just fishing, but with everything I believe this lesson applies. "Don't tell anyone anything you wouldn't be ok with everyone knowing."

[Tery Songz]

i fish a honey hole 15 lbers giant oak tree laydown in about 15 feet of water amazing drop offs and coves and creeks epic vegatation rocky litteraly a millionare designed bass lake thats wild. only a few fish it lots of the bass i catch have hook holes in there lips meaning they have been released which is great. except for this one guy who takes his whole family fishing and leaves with about 5 fish every day he took out 3 10 lbers and fillet them. i decided to keep about 30 blue gill there one time during the spawn just for food and i found tons of parasites . all throw them away i never eat bass and last time i ate a bluegill is over 10 years ago.just mad that a epic bass lake is being ruined by 1 guy for a bass to reach 10 lbs it takes years. i saw a few 5-12 large mouth meaning it takes a while for them to grow in that lake. nontheless the amount of bullheads in there make it worse. dont know if i can talk him out of releasing them.

[Jar11591]

The ONLY people I tell about a specific spot are people I fish with and know won't run their mouth. I really only fish with one other person and they know just as well as I do that "secret spots'' are incredibly rare and pretty much extinct this day in age. When people ask where I caught a fish I just say "private pond". 

Give somebody an inch, and they will take a mile every single time.

[soflabasser]

Good topic.I have given many fishing locations to fishermen both in person and on the Internet.Many of these fishermen where grateful that I helped them and a couple of them have given me locations as well.With that said,few people will give out their top 10 favorite fishing locations online for obvious reasons.Some of these locations are small bodies of water that will not respond well to having a horde of people pounding the place,even if they practice catch and release fishing(big bass eventually learn to avoid lures if they have enough negative experiences with certain lures).

[scaleface]

I've had three more people ask me to take them fishing this week . I have to quit posting on Facebook .

[lo n slo]

my cousin is my fishing partner and he knows everything.

just ask him ; - )

[Bass Turd]

One phrase. "He now sleeps with the fishes..."

[lectricbassman]

Fisherman bragging on facebook, to me, is the number one way to ruin a spot. I no longer post any fishing pictures for that very reason. I wont go into details but it happened here very recently. 

[Oufb90]

I have a friend I fish with. We have a gentlemens agreement that we don't hit each other's spots without the other unless by ourselves. It works for us. 

[gim]

I killed em on the Great Lakes in August.  Grab your buckets boys lets go fishin'

[Oufb90]

9 hours ago, Bass Turd said:

One phrase. "He now sleeps with the fishes..."

I wonder what a guy with concrete shoes on would look like on my DI. Lol

[bigbill]

It's good to remove some fish within the slot limit but don't tell every Tom, Dick I and Harry about it.  There is food stamps if you need help.

[d-camarena]

I learned my lesson guys. The accused person and i dont speak anymore. Wasnt the way i wanted it to end but you gotta do what you gotta do. 

[soflabasser]

On 9/25/2016 at 7:00 AM, d-camarena said:

I learned my lesson guys. The accused person and i dont speak anymore. Wasnt the way i wanted it to end but you gotta do what you gotta do. 

Your former fishing buddy has a type of personality that has become too common in today's age and those types of people spend more time struggling in bass fishing than they do doing well in it.He is learning the hard way that it takes more than having a good spot to be successful in fishing.

[RichD913]

Never. My brother found this little spot by our house that isn't on any maps or anything, you can't see it from the road or anywhere you park, and you have to walk a ways to get to it. When we started there no one was ever there and we would hammer them. Then we saw one or two people show up, thought nothing of it, gave the place a break for a bit because we wanted to fish the bigger lakes and came back to it and every time we go there are several people there and they always seem to say "I just heard about this spot."

[fishwizzard]

The only "good spots" I have found are places with a mile or three hike in and I never have an issue sharing them.  I figure most guys are not willing to walk four miles round trip to catch a bass and those that do just give the ticks a target other then me. 

[Sam]

NEVER, EVER GIVE OUT YOUR HONEY HOLES LOCATIONS

LIE IF YOU MUST. IT IS OK TO LIE ABOUT YOUR HONEY HOLES IN BASS FISHING.