Concerned: You ought to recognize that this topic has been considered and debated on the Internet, including this message board for years. Many of us have given it a fair amount of thought. Intentionally or not, your posts suggest that those who disagree with you either don't understand your point or don't care about the resource. I don't think that's a fair characterization.
I do believe that posts on boards like this can have an adverse impact on crowding on some streams, and perhaps even in a few cases on the fishery. I know of a few decent (not great) streams that are within a couple hours driving distance of my home in the DC area which 7 or 8 years ago were not being talked about on-line or by DC anglers so far as I could tell, but which are now the subject of organized outings by groups from this area. My belief, though I cannot prove it, is that the Internet had something to do with that phenomenon. I now identify specific streams in my posts less often than I used to do. That said, there are some streams that are so large and so well-known, and so popular already, that it is hard to imagine a few more Internet posts making any appreciable difference in the crowds on, let alone the health of, those streams. Kettle Creek is one of those. Spring and Penns are two others. So is Pine (the big one). And the Little Lehigh.
Kettle Creek has received lots of national publicity over the past several decades, and has got to be among the 3 or 4 best-known trout streams in the state, perhaps THE best known.
I learned to flyfish on and around Kettle in the late 70s and early 80s. It was growing increasingly crowded even then, before the Internet was even a twinkle in Al Gore's eye. I wish that was not so, and if I thought it would get worse because of a post here stating that someone caught 35 stockies there while combat fishing on opening day, then I'd join you in condemning that post. I just don't find that plausible.
