I agree with Stucky. It didn't used to be this secretive. I enjoyed it alot and learned alot by reading the posts. Now it seems, that you need to be on a special call list to get any useful information. I am not saying that I want anyones coordinates, but it is nice to hear how all the lakes are doing and the different ways people are using to catch fish. I prefer to crappie fish, but do fish for other species. The other sections on this forum aren't afraid to post lake names, even the bass section.
One of the reasons I always enjoyed crappie fishing was that crappie fishermen were always willing to help each other out. I don't know how many times if i was fishing a marina and catching fish on a particular color and someone else wasn't I would share and had others share with me. That goes for share catches if I only had a couple and someone wanted them and have had them given to me too. I can remember one year at bardwell I think all of us took turns on who took the fish home that day.
Yes, when people see that fish are biting at one particular lake it gets more traffic, but like Stucky says they still have to find them. I'll add they still have to catch them. If they do, then more power to them. I don't own the fish, lake, or anything in it, and yes I have put brush piles out. I enjoy watching people catch fish, especially the ones that normally don't. They get excited and that rubs off. I don't normally fish weekends because I don't like the crowds. Most lakes around the metroplex will be crowded on weekends whether anyone posts good reports on here or not. This sport is really growing, and it saddens me to see the helpfulness and inclusion of everyone go away.

Life is too short to fish worring about if someone might find some of your fishing holes. It chapps my azz when people at least wont tell the lake they are having luck or black out the backround of a pic! I have been fishing numberous times and seen a father and son or wife not having any luck and have called them over to my brushpile and help them. This forum has turned so ego driven about who is catching the most/biggest crappie with little to no information that i ask myself why do i bother looking at tff! One of my favorite spots on lake bonhan was showed to me by an old man that i was watching from a distance tearing up the crappie and he motioned me to come over to fish by him and told me all the history of the lake because he used to farm the land before the lake was built. To this day i think about that situation and think about the big picture of making friends and people happy more than my gluttony of catching all the fish.

Im with ya ketchn!.... i surly dont go out of my way to let the public know all my fishing holes but like to make some people happy by helping them out.

Yep .... west of I-45 the crappie are like the trees.
mesquite crappie.