Lost two of my favorite childhood spots to "improvements." The county turned them into beautiful parks with paved paths and parking lots. Sounds great, right? Wrong. My secret bass pond that used to produce 5-pounders now barely has 1-pound fish. Too easy to access = too many people = fishing dies. The other lake got dredged and "beautified" after years of trash buildup. Now it's nearly dry and any surviving fish will cook in this heat. Sometimes the rough, hard-to-reach spots fish better precisely because they're rough and hard to reach. #fishing #publicaccess #overfished