The question I have is when a person supposedly "helps someone out" and intentionally gives them bad info, even by pm, which is worse, not giving any info at all, or directing them to a bogus location where you supposedly caught some fish? I suspect it does happen, but I don't know who would be guilty of such.

I really don't see where teaching someone to fish has anything to do with showing them a honey hole especially one that is already crowded. Doing this only promotes entitlement fishing and encourages bad habits of crowding close to people who they think are doing better than they are, or crowding those that are already in the only hole they know to fish. Learning how to fish involves NOT catching fish as much as it does catching fish and does not happen on one trip or even 2 trips. It is a process that happens over years and years of fishing trips.

Just for the record and for all the lurkers. This same thread is started every year about this time and rarely ends well. If you care to review last years version of this same thing, please go back and read through forum pages 100-106. The solution is no different then than now. Have fun.