Seems like some lakes get named in Trip Reports whilst others are merely hinted at...
What's the standard PNWFF community guidelines on naming the lake?
What's the standard PNWFF community guidelines on naming the lake?
Uh, do we name the lake? Trip report protocol?
- Thread starter Wade Rivers
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When pondering this, I sometimes ask myself, Is it needed for the narrative? Does it add something important to the story that can't otherwise be described? And then I think about if it's already a highly pressured spot and/or "artificial" fishery and factor that in.
I like this way of thinking about it.
I enjoy the mystery of a good report without the specific spot being named. That applies to rivers, beaches or lakes regardless of how popular they are.
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If it's a popular well known spot, there's little harm in naming it. If it's somewhere that you'd prefer to not share with a few hundred of your closest "new friends", I would keep the naming and sharing of specifics to DMs or real life over a beer. Most of the time, I'm not against giving friends location info. But I rarely do it in a public post.
Remember, specifics you leave here will be available for google to show everyone for years and years to come (assuming we do a good job of keeping this place alive).
Remember, specifics you leave here will be available for google to show everyone for years and years to come (assuming we do a good job of keeping this place alive).
The name of the lake isn’t the interesting part. Relating an experience is fun to share and makes for good reading.
In a larger sense, very much this. What I love about trip reports is hearing/seeing the experience that someone had.
Keeping with that theme, these sandhill cranes flew nearby overhead today and landed in the meadow. Fishing was okay but this was the highlight of the morning. They are calling this evening, probably to announce their departure.
There is a reason why the board software automatically removes metadata/EXIF location information when pictures/videos are uploaded to the site ---> protect the location of the water being fished. That was implemented/established while this site was being created.
Edited to add: That should set the tone regarding the way the board looks at the way the site looks at providing identifying location information...
Edited to add: That should set the tone regarding the way the board looks at the way the site looks at providing identifying location information...
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I think it's more a stigma then actually matters. My own thoughts are that big lakes are almost always under utilized by fly fisherman so I'll often post the name because it doesn't matter. Small stuff I don't. I've had incredible lakes posted online by fishing guides, WDFW reports and so on and hardly noticed an uptick in crowds.
I've got a GPS tracker on your Jeep.
Dr. Magill
Life of the Party
Probably more of an Eastside thing
Here in western Wa the place will most likely become a mad house - at least in the short term
Lots of folks around King and Snohomish counties anymore
Ultimately, I don't know. Seems like it's acceptable to name lakes that are already generally very well known. Smaller, obscure, and less well known waters seem to be the ones that people would rather they not be named. Chopaka and Pass Lakes are commonly named on this forum, and no one seems to care. However, Frenchman's Pond shall be forever unnamed.
I was wondering who's that was when I placed mine there...
Agreed… even though they’ve been lots of times where I’m dying to figure out where someone was fishing, I don’t want them divulging it to the world.
I actually enjoy sometimes playing detective and cruising Google maps, trying to figure out where someone was.