Originally Posted by
Xdscott
Xdscott -
Greetings and welcome from SE Idaho.
Wondering where you hail from ?? You might want to fill out the profile, if you plan to stick around, so folks will have an idea about what kind of fishing you are most likely doing, your other interests, age, occupation, etc. Just kind of makes the whole BB thing a bit easier and more effective.
As to john gierach, whoever that is and whenever he mentioned that to you, he's certainly welcome to his approach, wherever it is he applies it. I've heard other people make the same suggestion, but there is another school of thought that making places known is a better way of protecting them. I think that is the better approach, obviously, as you can tell from my posts on this and other Fishing Reports threads.
Part of it may be the Western thing compared to what folks in other parts of the country feel they need to do - more like protecting their own little piece of water so they have some place to go when they want to fish. Ain't that way out here, and won't likely be for a long time, if ever. Any given day, I can choose between ten or fifteen or more really fine trout streams or rivers within a hundred miles, mostly less, and have that water all to myself for the entire day, most days.
Anyway, hope you enjoy your stay here.
John
P.S. You probably didn't mean to sound like you were lecturing me, right ???