Is posting pictures on here bad form now?????

people seem to think im on here BLASTING out names and GPS locations of fishing hot spots....are people pulling the GPS locations out of my phone pics??? i have NEEEVVERRRRRRR said WHERE im fishing. in fact i go out of my way not to. i dont respond to PM's asking where im fishing either. So whats this publicity stink i get for posting pics and that makes me "blasting secret spots" online.

i fish. i post pics of my fishing ON A FISHING FORUM. IF YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE SPOT IM FISHING THEN YOU HAVE FISHED IT ENOUGH TO KNOW ITS NO SURPRISE IM HAVING SUCCESS THERE. Soo00ooo what secret am i letting. none of my pictures show DEFINITIVE location markers like signs ...or GPS coordinates of the floats im doing.

im loud. i get it. im loud about my opinions..i get it...but im not blasting secret hotspots on here. I DO MY HOMEWORK. i take chances...i hear rumors and pursue them. i grab hatchery data...i quiz old timers who dont mind telling me things and i have grown up around fishing gurus...so its no surprise i probaly have fished or been to your secret damn spot. If your that concerened about your private property spot...or really worried about traffic or you think my pic is just a littttlleeee to easy to see wehre the spot is...let ME KNOW...i will take it down. im not into idiots being at my spots...but i have noticed a trend of other MORONS running their mouths after my pictures go up when they do recognize the spot and saying WHERE it is...you guys should be harassing them. rant over....kirk out

The Hump is firing. You were right..

the hump IS firing...so are the crowds. but tons of chromer kings and cohos

It's not a new or unused practice to take your meat shots without showing every fuking featurein a 1/2 mile radius. But you're moving to Hawaii and it doesn't matter. And you have secret pink hootchies and a feminine twitch that is the only effective way of catching coho. So what's it matter if everyone and their clients are in that stretch. If you don't get it oh well. And homework had nothing to do with where the photos were taken.

Go back to the My Little Pony Fan Site you whore!!!! :-)

Mr. Merg, I just googled Mergentroid to see what the fuk it meant. Always wondered. I see you are seeling T-Shirts. I have come up with a few of my own in the past. I came up with one targeting the redneck nascar fans a while back and I will let you have it. I think it would be a hit. "Wearin' a grin with the throttle pinned!". Yer welcome. F@g.

And a dik rider.

So where are you catchin' fish?

Hump two lips.

Sorry folks, won't be able to post anymore Clam digging pictures.

fp

I do like the old avatar a lot better.

Just post away I for one enjoy seeing the pics . I do not feel the urgency to go hit the waters your fishing, but I do wish to share a seat since you usually have some hotties fishing with you.

Don't listen to the haters and do your thing.

BTW this may be off the subject has anyone ever said you look like the love child of Kevin Bacon and Mac Guyver.

just saying ...... its a good thing.......

merg, don't F'en be concerned about what people's opinions are and their sandy vag accusations. just let the unhappy ones be.

as for pics post away. there truly are no secret spots any more or rivers.

No. I traded a secret river for the secret spot FishPrince showed me. It was a fair trade. Cohos galore. Still doesnt tell you where its at. Period. Tshirts huh? Sweet. You googled it? I am flattered. No YBD ...I will not go out with you.

Here's what not to do. See the obvious large landmarks are a dead giveaway for the hole location.


I like the pictures, but I'm also too far away to come over and crowd up the river.

Hey Merg, I have never seen you post anything that comes even close to making me head your way to fish. Feel better?

And now, because of the new 'do', you hook twice as many hoes.

Merg has only posted 3 times so far on his own thread. Wow!!!

Funny in Superfly's thread the boards #1 self promoter, gives someone else a lecture on being a bit of a self promoter.... Hahahaha!

It was a selfish move is all I'm saying. But, whatever. Merg doesn't post for ever than shows up posting photos of spots he was shown in confindence he would keep on the D.L. The person who showed you may not care or say anything but it was a lame thing to to do. You obviously don't get it I guess. The only thing that matters is Merg showing everyone he is the greatest, fuk everyone else.

There is still this irrational fear that if you post a picture of you holding a fish in the Helicopter Hole on the Hump (or any other known location for that matter) that you are personally responsible for the 18 boats that will be parked in there the day after.

Besides, if one has a photo of themselves getting Photobombed by The Legend that is Stam ,who also has a king on while at the Bluff Hole on the Hump, why WOULDN'T you post it????



Always a great day to be on the Hump with The Legend and the Renegade White Man. Never a dull moment.......

Sorry, but a fleet of "guides", their buddies, and some cell phones do way more damage then this here IntarWebz does.

Maybe I'm crazy. But if you take me to your spot and ask me not to put it on front street Im not going to post photos of thay spot a week later when I go there without you. I'm not saying that's the reason there are boats every where or how word got out. I'm saying it was a boner move.

always bitching about something...

cant ever just be nice work, good job...

nope...

theres always something...

Hump-ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Nate you fish behind a K Mart with every thug, retard and snagger south of Seattle. I wouldn't expect you to understand.

i dont fish behind anything... ever...

you know, you talk alot about rivers i fish that you have never seen let alone step foot on...

stop complaining, noone gives a sh!t...

I've been following you for sometime now Nate. I was going to wait until I was finished to inform you, but I have been filming you for a documentary I am making about adult retardation in Washington State. It's been an eye opening experience. Thank you Nate.

you admitted to singing in the shower....


you admitted to looking at your BFF's junk at a bachelor party, and very graphically detailed the size of it...


and you call me retarded?


you should do the documentary on yourself, and entitle it "Loggers, Dongs, and Miley Cyrus", yah freakin fruit pop....


Merg did nothing wrong, he didnt publish a map like FHN did, he didnt create the internet, and he didnt tell all the other people he wasnt even with to call their buddies to come down and clean up shop....

leave him alone...

Nate, there's still a lot to be learned. What we do know is that there is hope. Data and statistics show in similar cases with like individuals who put there mind to it had more opportunities than we had initially believed. The data shows in your case that with the right amount of effort you could find a career greeting customers at Wal-Mart.

It's un-American to not sing in the shower Nate. Fact.

and you will still be singing "I want it that way" in the shower....

Gawd dammmmit!! I knew Al Gore was to blame!!




...and he has the nerve to think he's helping the environment.

Some basic rules that I follow that never seem to let me or my fishing partners down.

1. When in doubt, don't post.
2. When in still in doubt, ask. If successful, ask others in your party on the day you fish if they would mind if you shared any info (and what info specifically).
3. Known go-to honey holes on known rivers are generally acceptable, but see rule #2. If its still "no", find cooler fishing partners.
4. Revealing true "zipper lips", hot techniques, lures or baits is NEVER acceptable and its your responsibility to understand the difference and be respectable to your fishing friends and the hard work and hours they've put into finding said success.

Just my $0.02 worth....

"Don't wanna hear you say! I want it that way!"


..."Ain't nothin but a blah blah and nothin' but a blah blah...'cause I waaaant iiit thaaaat waaay....nooo I waaaant iiiiiiiiittttt thaaaaaat uh waaaaay!"


Yer point?

Asking is the key. Not hard to do.




Ask is the key. Not hard.

I can probably provide the most levity to this thread compared to anyone on this MB. I know the spots Merg posted intimately. All of them, I caught fish in many of them the same days he did, the days preceding and since then.

You wouldn't believe how crowded it got since Merg posted those pics. Shoulder to shoulder, boats anchored bow to stern, launch lines around the block, tempers flaring, and pink hoochies unavailable in a 30 mile radius. There has been a run on Aussie sprunch spray too.

3 Probs As I See It

Prob 1. Too many people want to be fishing heros online and play guide

Prob 2. Too many people want to be fishing heros in real life and play guide

Prob 3. Too many people want to be guide in real life

Solution. Dont be a guide. Don't post much of this stuff at all. Keep a low profile.

Believe me it is more fun. This is how I mostly roll and it is nice and drama free with the exception of some rare crazy [Bleeeeep!] that I just have to chalk up to the crazy passion in fisher folks.

However, I have said this online before and people thought I was crazy. Everywhere I fish, I get followed on a pretty regular basis. These people don't know who I am, they just know I am going fishing, pull over and follow me to the river to learn a new spot to fish. And it isn't like I am hanging out by the road, people just know a fishing pullout/rig when they are looking for one. There are a lot of fish hungry people out there nowadays metaphorically and literally.

I was exploring on the OP on a logging road deep in the woods and had a truck follow me for way too long and ultimately I parked to hike in trailess. After I hiked a mile into woods and realized it was a waste of time I turned back and met this guy following me. The dude was super clueless and I am pretty sure he thought he was going to learn a new super zipper lip because he seemed embarrassed. Lol it was weird. But I was pretty irked at the strangeness of it all.

I have only been seriously fishing for 15 years and I just see more and more people out there. The internet isn't the only thing to blame and neither are guides and neither are the mags. We all got chrome fever real bad from the Creator as far as I can tell.

That is how The Hater sees it.

My entire point was he was shown the spot by a member who wanted it to be quiet for as long as possible. I don't blame boats being there on Merg and if he had found the spot himself and posted photos I wouldn't have said a word. I have never once commented on a board about exposing spots but this was different. Make sense?

JB, Good post, quit insightful.

I have fished the Pt. Defiance area for longer than I care to admit. It has been my observation that if a person wants to learn spots and techniques from the most successful anglers in that fishery you will need your looking tubes handy, and be vigilant, as you will not see any net waving, or hear any squeals of delight from those who are most successful.

Your anecdote about your short hike on the OP, was really funny and struck very close to home, because, now you know who that guy was that was following you, it was I.

Here's my annual Thank God for bird dogs and shotguns post.........

Thank God for bird dogs and shotguns

vhawk

To many people on the internet think their opinion actually matters.

Because we are such terrible fisherman yet we were putting up good numbers, which means super awesome stud fisherman like you guys would put on a clinic. If we can catch fish they must be in thick!

I was gonna say the same thing. Laughing at others is something Nate should really think through before doing. Go accomplish something now so my documentary has a happy ending.

*Spoiler Alert* One thing I learned about Nate during my filming that I'd like to share is that he wears a helmet when he fishes. And when he walks to the river. And when he's in his house smoking drugs.

If you feel like you might want to "say the same thing" as salmosalar, I would advise you to think again.

loose lips sink ships, nice guys finish last.

lol



Much obliged.

amen, brotha





willy

hahahah right?

just found this thread....ill read it right quick and chime in uno momento

WHATTT THEEE FAAARRRRK ARE YOU SMOKING!!!! WHAT THE FARK AM I REVEALING HERE!?!?!?!!?

zipperlips? if its zipperlip then no one will recognize the picture with a tree and some water in the background...if someone does THEY need to keep their mouth shut and just say " hey man nice fish" not " oh that river yeah...I blah blah blah that zipper hump, Cowlitz, satsop whatever all the time"

I post pictures of fun and success which is what this WEBSITE IS FOR you total slack jawed raw-tards. people need to shut their flappers and check out the pics. Then go " hey man sweet" or ask PERTINENT questions legitimately about whats going on in the PIC....instead of flapping their jaws about the spot or the legitimacy of the users sexual orientation of 'straight'

im I taking crazy pills or am I the only one seeing this for what it is?

Is ita new Cocept Merg to keep land marks and such unshown in your reports? Have you not read the conversations before or does it just not add up? Your unpopularity on another river leads me to believe you get it but you just get off on acting like a retard.