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But….I am sure to get some people pretty upset here, I will teach them how to figure out where the fish are, why they are there, and how we can get them to bite. Growing up on Pool 4, a lot of us vested COUNTLESS hours figuring out the true methodology of fishing – by going out and LEARNING. It seems more and more people just want OTHERS to tell them how and where to catch the fish, without LEARNING the true meaning of fishing – spending the time. Call me biased, but I do not get the thought process of telling everyone and anyone exactly what to do to catch a fish. Just gets me frustrated! There……..I vented!!!
My turn, my turn!
In my experience nothing has dished more good info and spoiled more spots than fishing tournaments. I live here too and have fished pool 4 for decades and the constant parade of fishing tournaments with the flashy boats and info shared at weighins has put out more quality info in less time than any website forum ever could. What’s the #1 question asked at a weighin? Where was the winner fishing? And if the info isn’t openly shared all you have to do is fish the day of the tournament and keep track of who is where and you can get the low down on the locations fished and techniques used by all the guys that win/place/show. And that’s if the winners don’t spout it at the podiums or actually print the name of the exact location in a follow up article the next week.
If you wanted to force people to learn a body of water themselves tournaments would be the first thing that would need to go. Particularly the local events fished by the guys that really know the river. For some reason they’ll keep their traps shut all year long but come time to fish in some low entry fee event they’ll park their boat on top of their favorite spot for all to see and haul in 40Lb bags. Then wonder how anyone figured out their spot. 
Now that’s me venting. Of course since it is public water nothing is going to change unless the health of the fishery is in jeopardy and I’ve never caught more big fish than I have this spring. BIG thanks go out to Skarlis and all the tournament guys that have gone before him!!!!