Biologically, bodies of fishable water can sustain only a certain level of angling pressure before the system starts to collapse. This is why so many "zipperlip" streams have such good runs of fish. While any Joe Average can look at a map and see that the stream exists and then go down to fish it, it's only a select few who will take the time to learn the stream and the runs of fish that inhabit it.

What these regional magazines that publish a rundown on these streams does is announce to the fishing public at large "this stream gets very little pressure, so check it out". If it was one person telling another person, then it adds one person to the pressure. Not bad. But a magazine with a reader base of tens of thousands suddenly introduces a FLOOD of new people to this body of water, and that's where the problems start.

The only hope that the stream has is that these will not become regular visitors, and that maybe the next issue if the magazine will attract the throngs to another body of water.