I made a post on another site about getting skunked at a warm water discharge. Next thing I know there are many replies which resulted in bus loads of people coming from all over the state. No one likes to go fishing only to see masses of boats and people fishing where you "used" to fish. There are many people that never post that are looking for specific spots. I like to fish at night for stripers on C-land. Usually you wont see many boats. I remember someone posting about catching big stripers in a specific creek arm one spring and there was a swarm of boats to that creek. Boats everywhere. You had to worry about running into someone they were so thick. We opoligized to one guy that we didn't see coming. He was so close that we could hear his trolling motor and could see his cigerett light up but he never said a word. I will gladly tell everyone what technique I use and even what lure, but I wont give specific spots(stripers move alot so it wouldn't do any good anyway). I really enjoyed fishincreeks posts. He's a die hard like me and fishes similar to the way I fish also. I will be down to the big lake here in a few weeks for some night plugging(did I say that)up in the creeks(maybe main lake) if the water temp is just right.

I do think the PM system does take away from the open forums. I'm guilty of that one.