Matt
I knocked Cpt Paranoia off my shoulder some time ago with a spectacularly failed piece of vanity publishing. So to that end,the last part of your comment:
"If only Granville Marzipan would put a counter up. That would be good wouldn't it Kevin....butwhat if just said 2...you might go mad"
Is only incorrectin as much as the supposition atthe end is wrong. To have written over 200 articles for FM with precious litlereal angling expertise to relate to,or any hint ofprevious literary experience, calls for you to be eitherbarking mad, or at the very least, wired up a bit differently.
The current series doesn't appear under the usual 'Alternative Angler' masthead, because I am trying to do something different (for me) and write articles which do not contain the normal scattergun approach that I employ in my often vain search to find something 'funny' to write about.
And believe it or not, I find the factual articles even harder to write than the allegedlyhumorous ones, because I can't fall back on the witty/sarcastic/satrical comment to fill upthe word count.
Of all the minless twaddle I write, Iam most pleased with TickleTackle and Donaldand Damien, neither of which, it has to be said, appeal to the mass anglingaudience, but both of which appear to have found a niche hereon FM
So, as long as one rather important person reads them (Graham) and decides they are good enough to put them up on FM, the number of 'hits' after that is of no great consequence