Excuse me while I crawl up onto my soap box, it's my first time here and my knees are a bit shaky.
There's a local fly shop down here that sends out really meaty, detailed weekly newsletters. For the most part they can be really informative on all the fishing things. But one thing that bothers me is they post very detailed reports of little fished creeks, rivers, blue lines and lakes. These aren't your typical shop reports where they report and name Blue Ribbon line fisheries that every one knows about (The Deschutes, Mckenzie, Crooked, etc). Those Blue Ribbon reports feel like they're meant to get people to the shop to stock up (at said fly shop) and get to the river--and that makes sense! What I'm referring to are the local rivers that have marginal fisheries at best and don't deserve the hoards of Portland descending upon them. So with that being said, are these reports an attempt to get people to get to the shop to buy stuff to get to these small spots? If so, that bums me out. Do we really need to crowd these spots to make a bit of money? And with that being said, you've already given the goose away, they don't need to come to the shop! Don't get me wrong, I don't think these rivers are going to turn into the Puget Sound during the next Pink run, but, I have never seen another angler while out in these spots. Am I gate keeeping? Maybe you think so. But I'm not shy to talk about these spots with people either, and I don't care if these shops talk about them either (it's public land after all). But MAYBE, rather than blasting their names out to an email list that they claim has thousands of subscribers (their words in last weeks email), maybe tell your in-store customers about them after they buy some flies? I get that running a Fly Shop is hard these days, but naming these spots aren't making or breaking the bottom line. The reports, photos and words are compelling stories, but as Josh said in a different thread, if you remove the name of the river/creek/lake does it make it any less compelling? Not one bit. Let's all be better (including myself).
Alright, I'm done, until someone gets defense and tells me to piss off
There's a local fly shop down here that sends out really meaty, detailed weekly newsletters. For the most part they can be really informative on all the fishing things. But one thing that bothers me is they post very detailed reports of little fished creeks, rivers, blue lines and lakes. These aren't your typical shop reports where they report and name Blue Ribbon line fisheries that every one knows about (The Deschutes, Mckenzie, Crooked, etc). Those Blue Ribbon reports feel like they're meant to get people to the shop to stock up (at said fly shop) and get to the river--and that makes sense! What I'm referring to are the local rivers that have marginal fisheries at best and don't deserve the hoards of Portland descending upon them. So with that being said, are these reports an attempt to get people to get to the shop to buy stuff to get to these small spots? If so, that bums me out. Do we really need to crowd these spots to make a bit of money? And with that being said, you've already given the goose away, they don't need to come to the shop! Don't get me wrong, I don't think these rivers are going to turn into the Puget Sound during the next Pink run, but, I have never seen another angler while out in these spots. Am I gate keeeping? Maybe you think so. But I'm not shy to talk about these spots with people either, and I don't care if these shops talk about them either (it's public land after all). But MAYBE, rather than blasting their names out to an email list that they claim has thousands of subscribers (their words in last weeks email), maybe tell your in-store customers about them after they buy some flies? I get that running a Fly Shop is hard these days, but naming these spots aren't making or breaking the bottom line. The reports, photos and words are compelling stories, but as Josh said in a different thread, if you remove the name of the river/creek/lake does it make it any less compelling? Not one bit. Let's all be better (including myself).
Alright, I'm done, until someone gets defense and tells me to piss off
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