Spots and Secrets

[shimmy]

 

I'll share What I caught, as well as How & When I caught but very Rarely (if ever) Where I caught.

That part is Always up to each angler to solve on his or her own.

IMO, 'Successful Bass Fishing' is a process by which one uses whatever knowledge, experience, and time on the water to get the job done.  Once you know how to catch them, looking for them and eventually finding them Yourself, where ever that may be, is very satisfying.

One may be better suited to concentrate their efforts there, rather than hoping or even worse, expecting others, to do it for them.

So I say find your own fish.  I'll never ask anyone where they got them.  I may ask how though, and that's usually sufficient.

A-Jay

Summed up better than I could have said it. For me, I have experienced too many times on a body of water 100-200 acres where we were the umpteenth boat there and it was obvious people had fished/spooked the bass there all day. I know Catt likes to say how open he is about sharing info, but it's another thing on a giant body of water where even if 100 guys read your post and tried to fish your spot that day, you have a 1,000 other spots to fish. Perhaps the rebuttal is, "well if your good enough, It doesn't matter if people fish your spot...you can still catch the ones they miss." Sure, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut and if you get enough blind squirrels, we'll that would make a funny looking forest and some strange tree climbing in your neighborhood AND your chances have drastically decreased for catching your big fish; especially on smaller bodies of water.

[Spankey]

Everyone has a different comfort level as to what they want to share. Everyone doesn't fish with the same intentions. I C&R all my bass. I don't want to kill one or see one killed. But realize things do happen. I've been on that end of things like everyone else. On a local level I don't share much info at the dock, ramp or parking lot. Whether I do well or not it's "I didn't set the world on fire". I'm not a troll, or going to be trolled. I don't leave a lot of tackle lay all over my boat deck when I come in so not much info shared there. There is only two guys that I've known for years that we really get into how things are going, stratigies, got a nice one here, bunch of runts there, color patterns choices and lure actions, structure. We are one in the same as to how we fish. My comfort level on a local level stops there. 

 

Some of the above may sound negative. But mostly it's not being a socialite at the dock or by engaging in a lot of running my mouth as to how it's going. My good time and mental relief doesn't get spread across the county. 

 

But, this is a great site here. This site has great guys on it. I like dealing with people on here. I don't hold back on anything, like to help and like being helped. Guys in my own backyard are going to have to find out on there own or the DB at the tackleshop who doesn't even fish. 

[GORDO]

Sharing information isnt a problem to me. Maybe if I was on a 300 acre lake I would be more tight lipped but Ill share pretty much whatever you need to know. I cant count how many times ive followed a boat down a set of docks and caught fish on the dock they just flipped to. All I want to know is are they shallow or deep and ill figure it out from there. Thats half of the fun of fishing is trying to find the fish! 

 

[BassGirl71]

On 5/7/2017 at 4:42 AM, 12poundbass said:

I could/would never ask for a certain location or give one up. Yeah I'd ask or give up a certain area (west side of lake) but that's it. That's the sport of fishing....figuring out where they are, when they're there, and what they want. 

I agree. I will tell people - main lake points or grass lines in 12-14 feet - something like that, but I don't give up specific spots, etc. Or I might divulge a color I found to work well, but I won't do another angler's work for them. To me, that's not what it's all about.

[Ratherbfishing]

On 5/7/2017 at 1:10 AM, th365thli said:

 

I'm unsure how you define "hoarding" but the implication that NOT sharing everything one knows is somehow selfish is, in and of itself, selfish.  Put your OWN time in on the water.   

[th365thli]

4 hours ago, Ratherbfishing said:

I'm unsure how you define "hoarding" but the implication that NOT sharing everything one knows is somehow selfish is, in and of itself, selfish.  Put your OWN time in on the water.   

 

You need to slow your roll my man. Nowhere did I imply that not sharing every little bit of knowledge is selfish "and of itself selfish" (redundant much?)

 

Read my previous posts please, I believe is stated that what you share or not share is your own business, as long as you do it respectfully. It's not like we all didn't start somewhere. And please do not "imply" that I do not put my "OWN" time in the water. I fish extensively and I fish hard and I figure things out. I put my dues and time in.

[brgbassmaster]

When i lived in northern michigan i wasnt worried at all. There are thousands of lakes and most the time you are lucky to see another boat let alone another bass boat. In arizona heck no i aint sharing nothing LOL. There is like 3 lakes here. My closest lake is 1 hr 15 min.