I can understand the way you feel. My fishing mentor has told me to be tight lipped about our zipperlip. He's fished the same river section for 25 years and has no desire to fish anywhere else except Alaska. I don't post about our zipperlip and it makes me mad to see other people post about it on this board or other boards. It made my mentor and the locals mad when they blab about it in fishing magazines. They even named my favorite hole in an interview with a fisheries biologist.

If a stranger comes up and asks how's fishing we'll tell them its slow when we catch fish. Lots of people come just to ask for information. If a car drives by when I'm taking a fish to my cooler(yes its tagged), I'll drop it in the brush. The only people I give information to are the people that we know.

However it is nice to get a fishing report once in a while. Nothing wrong with suggesting which rivers are good to fish or point them to a geographical location. Not good to discuss fishing holes. Email is appropriate for details.

If you told me the Cowlitz was red hot I wouldn't go there. I've never fished any of the Puget Sound or Grays Harbor rivers either. Don't get me wrong there are some beautiful rivers there and maybe some day I'd like to do a little exploring. Just too many people and too much traffic.