fishplate42
Well-known member
I know I have been going on about magazines a lot lately but bear with me on this for a minute...
I was out with the missus yesterday, taking my elderly mother shopping. While they were deciding which way to attack the supermarket and spend five minutes rummaging in handbags (why do they do that? they never take anything out), I decided to take a look at the magazines. Having given up on the weeklies, I picked up a monthly. It caught my eye because it said something about 'Make your own particle mix'. As you may know, I like making my own bait so I checked out the article to discover it was 'Mix' your own. I was just suggesting I bought several bags of branded particles and mix it together. Another article was talking about feeders showing boxes full of feeders and suggesting that you need to take dozens of them (mostly from the same manufacturer) with you to be prepared. The rig articles were not any better... I could go on.
Okay, I did buy a monthly, when I first started, and I did get some basics from it but I soon got to the stage where I could find nothing much to interest me.
I have only been fishing three years and I have already grown out of the magazines. I was getting bored with them over a year ago.
It is all very well moaning about the content, but on a positive note what do I really want to see a magazine? Well, for me it is practical hands on stuff like bait making and tackle repairs, neither of which will ever happen as it does not promote sales of bait and tackle. The venue information seemed to be good until I realised that it was mostly out of date, or in some cases, totally incorrect.
It seems to me that I am not going to find what I want in a paper publication anymore.
It is unlikely to change, but just for the fun of it, what would you like to see in a monthly magazine?
Ralph.
I was out with the missus yesterday, taking my elderly mother shopping. While they were deciding which way to attack the supermarket and spend five minutes rummaging in handbags (why do they do that? they never take anything out), I decided to take a look at the magazines. Having given up on the weeklies, I picked up a monthly. It caught my eye because it said something about 'Make your own particle mix'. As you may know, I like making my own bait so I checked out the article to discover it was 'Mix' your own. I was just suggesting I bought several bags of branded particles and mix it together. Another article was talking about feeders showing boxes full of feeders and suggesting that you need to take dozens of them (mostly from the same manufacturer) with you to be prepared. The rig articles were not any better... I could go on.
Okay, I did buy a monthly, when I first started, and I did get some basics from it but I soon got to the stage where I could find nothing much to interest me.
I have only been fishing three years and I have already grown out of the magazines. I was getting bored with them over a year ago.
It is all very well moaning about the content, but on a positive note what do I really want to see a magazine? Well, for me it is practical hands on stuff like bait making and tackle repairs, neither of which will ever happen as it does not promote sales of bait and tackle. The venue information seemed to be good until I realised that it was mostly out of date, or in some cases, totally incorrect.
It seems to me that I am not going to find what I want in a paper publication anymore.
It is unlikely to change, but just for the fun of it, what would you like to see in a monthly magazine?
Ralph.