You know, I was not sure that I wanted to get into this conversation cause so many people have strongly help positions on this topic, but......

I really do not think that posting pics or fishing reports on crappie.com is doing as much damage as people think. I suspect a larger problem is the writing in professionally published fishing magazines and the advertising produced by the professional guides in the state. Do not take offense, guys! I have no problem with sharing our public resources with anybody, and if you can make a living by taking people fishing, more power to you. Sounds like a great way to pay the bills. My point is this. Even if all of the pleasure anglers on C.Com agreed to never put another picture on our little website, InFisherman is still going to publish a million copies of their magazine featuring a report on the "Arc of Slabs" (look it up). A local guide that I follow on Facebook has posted a photo almost every day for the past several weeks with huge limits (multi-boat limits) of massive slab crappies. I suspect facebook has more users by far than crappie.com. Again, I am not complaining about this, just pointing it out.

My point is simple. No matter how we on crappie.com decide to proceed about the posting of fishing pics and reports, the word is out, and it is being spread by people who's financial well-being depends on the word getting out. You are not going to change that, so getting angry at each other here on this little website is really just a waste of time.

Relax. Fish. Pray. Life can be simple.