Where do we draw the line?? Anyone who can call himself a true sportsman will gladly help other true sportsmen learn what they need to know to be successful. For us, we get tremendous enjoyment helping other fishermen become successful and put fish in the boat. We fished an Arkansas River lake Saturday that had quite a few boaters....some spider rigging, some two-pole trollers, ect. The vast majority were catching very few fish. We gave out some jig/jigheads and plenty of tips to some of them when we found out they weren't being successful. I know all too well what it is like to make a fishing trip and not catch fish. When we loaded our boat we had four different boatloads of anglers follow us out and question us about how we were catching fish. We spend an hour at the boat showing them everything we were doing including how we had our rods rigged and why, what jig color and type we used and how we decided on that combination, depth, speed, ect. We gladly showed them the basics to enable them to go out there and catch some Crappie. I steered them all to Crappie.com in the hopes that they will join and use the board to become better fishermen. To me, the more the better! By the time I retire I want to see the CrappieMaster Tournament trail have 3-4 times the angler involvement that it does now. On the other hand, we do "draw a line" at the point of giving out what we refer to as "proprietary information" about locations, techniques and rigging that we feel is unique to us as a team that might give someone an advantage if we were to meet up with them at a tournament. Some of that information took years for us to learn and develop......We feel like we have done our part when we have taught someone the basics needed for them to continue their fishing education on a self-directed basis. Then they are "out of the nest" so to speak. I will also sometimes give out fishing locations on a one-to-one basis to fishing friends but saw too many favorite spots become quickly fished out in the past to publicly post those now. They are kept "at low breath or whisper" for those of you who know what I mean. We love to fish tournaments when we are able and they are fairly close. Don't get to fish as many as we would like because we both work fulltime during the week and usually can't prefish. That is a different ballgame from fishing for fun and most of those guys take it real real serious. That brings me to another "line to draw". We usually do a lot of joking and kidding around before tourney's but I would never ask even a close tournament friend for specific information on how they caught fish before a tournament.......I personally consider that to be rude and in poor taste to do so.....and puts that friend in an awkward situation if they will be fishing that same tournament........nor do I persistently pester friends of fellow tournament anglers for information they might have learned in confidence from that tournament angler (going behind his back so to speak). I am sorry for rambling and I hope I haven't offended anyone by anything I have said, that certainly isn't my intention but the topic was "where to draw the line" and I thought I would give my two cents worth on the subject.