Fishing reports please!

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Originally Posted by gobbler

This site is not about hey I caught 50 over at such and such ya’ll all come over here and getem too

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It used to be.
When this board became more of a tournament board all that went away. My late friend Mr Wilson was the biggest advocate for getting more folks on the water, especially through this board. Now that it’s more of a tournament crowd, these more of a secret fishing hole situation. I’m not a tournament guy, seems wrong to me. What’s next competitive picnicking? Lawn chair competition? I’ve been slapped by the mods on here before for saying so. But I get it, it’s a good time, great way to hang with buddies, show off your chops, maybe learn a little something, maybe make some $$$. But it’s taken a lot away from this board. It’s better now than it was a few years ago, and it’s the newer members helping that along, like the guy who asked the original question. Keep asking pal, don’t quit the board over it.

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Originally Posted by gobbler

Ya know I don’t think Clarke had any ill intent, there are a lot of takers and far less givers, if someone wants to give something that’s great but when you get someone asking for hey where have you been catching fish folks are a lot less willing, and I believe that’s was clarkg’s Angle

A person that goes on his own finds his own fish does not owe it you you to share what he has put in his time money and work for, so don’t get so wound up

This site is not about hey I caught 50 over at such and such ya’ll all come over here and getem too

The thing I enjoy most about fishing is figuring them out, dailing them in on that particular day

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I never asked for that either! Just a simple report since I haven’t been in a while. Just common help.


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Best thing you can do, is just go. Plan on a skunk. if you get some, celebrate it. I’ve been fishing a long time (I don’t hunt, trap, drink, or work for that matter) and the trick to fishing is learning what doesn’t work. Every zero is a win. The internet is just a shortcut and usually ends up being more of a headache than it’s worth. We caught plenty of fish before people started writing reports on little plastic boxes and screens.

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Originally Posted by Nater

Best thing you can do, is just go. Plan on a skunk. if you get some, celebrate it. I’ve been fishing a long time (I don’t hunt, trap, drink, or work for that matter) and the trick to fishing is learning what doesn’t work. Every zero is a win. The internet is just a shortcut and usually ends up being more of a headache than it’s worth. We caught plenty of fish before people started writing reports on little plastic boxes and screens.

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I was planning on doing that Nater. I usually look at NWS the day before and do read some fishing reports to help me generalize a lake but yes Through trial and error I will find them on my own. I was a very active participant on this site and Roy timely gave fishing reports until my boat gave up last year. I bought a get me by boat this year until I can find a new one I want and first time out it broke down. So I haven’t got to fish since last year and lost the time and movement bubble. Just trying to get some basic ideas after the big rain we had last week. Thanks for your assistance.


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Originally Posted by Nater

It used to be.
When this board became more of a tournament board all that went away. My late friend Mr Wilson was the biggest advocate for getting more folks on the water, especially through this board. Now that it’s more of a tournament crowd, these more of a secret fishing hole situation. I’m not a tournament guy, seems wrong to me. What’s next competitive picnicking? Lawn chair competition? I’ve been slapped by the mods on here before for saying so. But I get it, it’s a good time, great way to hang with buddies, show off your chops, maybe learn a little something, maybe make some $$$. But it’s taken a lot away from this board. It’s better now than it was a few years ago, and it’s the newer members helping that along, like the guy who asked the original question. Keep asking pal, don’t quit the board over it.

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Thanks Nater and I agree with your attitude towards fishing. If I do good I had rather pass on as much information to the next guy so he can do good too! To me that is almost as fun as catching them. It makes me feel good to help somebody else if I can.


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Any guys I am going to Jordan tomorrow since I am not sure High Rock is clear yet and I will give a report afterwards.


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Ya know this kinda goes off the mentality of I work hard put in my time money effort and I’m wrong if I don’t share what I find or have

If everyone knew of the same great spot how long do you think it would be so great? I’m being real here, do you think that there is an endless supply?

If you had a certain ridge that you killed deer or turkeys off of every year would you/could you tell thousands of people on the World Wide Web and expect it to continue to be great, would you want to be made to feel bad if you didn’t? How long do you think a place would be good once you shared it with the world? This isn’t a exclusive club with a few members it’s the whole world, how many folks do you think locally read this and never post? But would gladly venture over to wherever you bragged about?

You say this board used to be like that, guess why it’s not, folks got tired of helping a guy out then the next time they show up there are 20 boats there, a few years back I started making YouTube videos (catchinkevin), I quit because folks could see where I was at and wasn’t able to keep fishing my spots with near the same success, yes it got that bad

We used to have a fella on here I forget his name but he was originally from up north somewhere, red headed guy as best I can remember nice fella gave very good detailed reports, we’ll he gave this one report about Robeson creek one time then the next time he went he said he could barely idle through the creek, you ought to search it on this site, his username will come back to me eventually, history repeats itself but if your fine with having a lot of company then so be it

Ya see I’m just really trying to help you because I’ve walked this rd before

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Originally Posted by gobbler

Ya know this kinda goes off the mentality of I work hard put in my time money effort and I’m wrong if I don’t share what I find or have

If everyone knew of the same great spot how long do you think it would be so great? I’m being real here, do you think that there is an endless supply?

If you had a certain ridge that you killed deer or turkeys off of every year would you/could you tell thousands of people on the World Wide Web and expect it to continue to be great, would you want to be made to feel bad if you didn’t? How long do you think a place would be good once you shared it with the world? This isn’t a exclusive club with a few members it’s the whole world, how many folks do you think locally read this and never post? But would gladly venture over to wherever you bragged about?

You say this board used to be like that, guess why it’s not, folks got tired of helping a guy out then the next time they show up there are 20 boats there, a few years back I started making YouTube videos (catchinkevin), I quit because folks could see where I was at and wasn’t able to keep fishing my spots with near the same success, yes it got that bad

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Again, I wasn’t asking for any spots anywhere. I was asking a simple fishing report the same way it has been on here for years. Example, “I fished Jordan today and caught around fifty fish. About 20 of those were dunks and the rest were keepers. About eight of those went 14 inches with the biggest being 16 inches. Caught them mainly in the mouths of creeks in 20 ft of water down about 12 feet. Water was clear and 62 degrees. Used jigs and jigs tipped with minnows”. There was no mention about a “ spot” or about color of jigs or weight of jigs or type fishing pole. Common courtesy goes a long way.


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Why not give a little help? just because you catch fish at doc "A" to day dose not mean that they will beat their tomorrow, they could be on a brush pile in the next creek.