Youtube

[WISGUY]

Anyone get new hunting spots from watching YouTube hunting?

 

[Poser]

I don't (I know my local areas well enough that it is of no benefit), but I have certainly observed how it easy it could be for other people.
I have watched YT content from climbers and backpackers around and above certain alpine lakes and have zoomed into to look for surface strikes in an attempt to confirm if there are fish in specific lakes are not. Similar idea.

 

[Jon Olson]

Do you have a good example youtube video? As a software engineer and problem solver, I can give it a shot.

Keep in mind, if I do reverse engineer a spot, posting actual it is against forum rules because once web crawlers get ahold of it then it’s on the internet forever.

 

[Desert_Muley]

I don't use it to find specific spots. I like to use it to see the type of terrain, vegetation, topography, and food sources the species use to help me locate animals.

 

[MallardSX2]

The amount of units that have been ruined by YouTube is unfathomable.

 

[PathFinder]

Blowing up specific areas is one of the main reasons the YouTube people are so despised. They're so eager to sell out hunting spots for attention, it's pretty clear what really matters to them. It's not the outdoors, just validation from strangers and anything that prevents them from having to do something productive for a living.

 

[WCB]

The amount of units that have been ruined by YouTube is unfathomable.

That has never happened...just ask the youtubers who burned the spots.

 

[BigredRusch]

This is the reason hunting influencers and hiking influencers to a certain extent are so despised. They literally ruin spots and areas for people who value them.
The fact that posting a spot ruins it due to flooding of people, points to the fact that everyone is stealing spots off YouTube and other social media.


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[Blake C]

Do you have a good example youtube video? As a software engineer and problem solver, I can give it a shot.

Keep in mind, if I do reverse engineer a spot, posting actual it is against forum rules because once web crawlers get ahold of it then it’s on the internet forever.

Please dont do it

 

[Blake C]

Anyone get new hunting spots from watching YouTube hunting? Lot of bread crumbs left on videos out there.

Don't give any more ideas.....delete if possible

 

[Nickofthewoods]

@WISGUY

Read the room and delete that video.

 

[Fullfan]

Found several placed in Fla where guys were catching clown fish and peacock bass. In the video I could see a power line with a very odd type of power pole. Did a lil digging and found where the poles were used, with the help of google earth. I was able to locate the retention ponds and canals where the fish were being caught. Flew to Florida a month later and was able to catch some fish in the same retention ponds and canals. Where there is a will, there is a way.

 

[tt_johnsclist]

Not elk, but turkey many times. Once right down to the tree the influencers were sitting against. I’m never hunted the spots, just wanted to see if I could find them.

I have seen several older hunting videos where GPS coordinates were visible on cell phone displays.

 

[resident vs nonresident]

Found several placed in Fla where guys were catching clown fish and peacock bass. In the video I could see a power line with a very odd type of power pole. Did a lil digging and found where the poles were used, with the help of google earth. I was able to locate the retention ponds and canals where the fish were being caught. Flew to Florida a month later and was able to catch some fish in the same retention ponds and canals. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Talking about same guy who likes to fish near that IKEA in that same powerline area? Feel like that spot has been known for some time. Sure looks fun and easy to get to if you’re in US and want to know Peacock bass off your list Or could also go to HI or PR there are lakes that hold em and I’ve had pleasure catching them there.