Andy and Cakey, I really do understand that side of the debate, but do you see the other side of it? Let's take just one aspect of angling secrecy to its extreme, just for illustration purposes, and imagine that all anglers for all time had maintained a 'golden silence' and never told anyone what they had caught.
It would mean that you could be fishing your local pond for tench, catching fish averaging 3lb when, one day, you caught a 4-pounder, an absolutely enormous fish that you were convinced must be the biggest tench ever caught in the UK, maybe even the world!
Well, it's true isn't it? Keep things to yourself too much and you have only your own yardstick to go by.
Okay, you might say that you could be happy with such a scenario, indeed, that you ARE happy with just using your own yardstick right now.
But don't forget that you're only happy with it because you've been able to set your own yardstick to measure fish according to the publicised catches caught by those good and generous anglers who do share their good fortune with their fellow anglers.
As I've said before, if we all clam up then in years to come we won't know a good catch from a poor one.
I say publicise your significant catches, be proud of them, tell the world how good angling is. Shout it from the rooftops.
Just don't say where you caught it from if there is a danger of the water being invaded by the masses.
That's simple enough, surely, isn't it?