I think its OK to give general info on a river such as, if there are fish or not, direction to areas that are already well known. Things to that affect.

I never tell people about my zipperlip places accept my clossest fishing buddies and relitives. I make sure to tell them that if they dont keep the secret they will die a slow death, so they ushually keep the secret. But most importantly the people I do tell must gain my trust. and have the qualities of a true sport fisherman not a meat fisherman even if they were my clossest friend.

But ushually even if the secrets are kept a few people always find out anyway just by dumb luck.

The strange thing about the peninsula is that even though everybody know about it the presure hasent changed dramaticaly. Im a life long resident of the peninsula and have been taught the ways of the steelhead fiherman since I was old enough to have the paitience and drive. My addiction began at the age of 8 in 1984. It seems to me there are less people fishing out her now than when I started. I asked my dad the other day If he thought the presure out here had gotten worse over the years. He told me he thought it had been about the same since the mid 70s.

There are are plenty of places I go and rerely see other fisherman and thoose are the places I keep to myself. But sometimes I do fish in the combat zones but mostly during the brat seasons. and thoose are the place I tell people about.