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The last couple of months I keep thinking some sort of timewarp has occurred within the pages of the NewGear section - apparently Sonubaits Pro Expanders, Fluro Wafters and NuFish Aqualock netbags are all new - all of which have been out at least 18 months - it does make you wonder what's going on.
I won't be sad when my subscription runs out - I've bought one or other magazine from the David Hall stable since their inception in the 1970s but the quality and quantity of the articles has nose dived over the last couple of years - all the people who actually wrote their own articles have been dropped (Hadrian Whittle and Cathal Hughes to name just two) and when they are resorting to features looking inside the seatbox of anglers I've never heard of you know they must be struggling.
Does anybody know if the same clutch of Midlands commercial fisheries (and White Acres) actually pay for all the free advertising they receive since they get featured every single month.
I did think that when Matt Godfrey won the three-day Tees festival in August there'd be a full article about it but all we got was half-a-page with not even a single photo and yet the Trent festival fished around the same time - which he didn't win - got a full page write-up and a stack of photos - still I suppose we should be grateful for that half page - it's the first time the magazine has acknowledged there's life north of Lindholme for about two years.
Does anybody know what 250ml of casters equals in old money - there was an article on some big reservoir down south that measured casters in ml not pints and the author used three full bags of Daiwa groundbait so I stopped reading - nowhere locally sells the stuff and in any case if I started flinging twelve quid of groundbait in every week I'd soon be skint.
As usual the only piece worth reading was by Billy Makin. The sadly all too short article on a continental pairs festival in Holland was interesting too but everything else was just adverts for sponsored anglers products.
Even the 'free' groundbait offer for subscribers is uninspiring - it doesn't even include a bucket
- bring back Sensas or Van Den Eynde and give us some proper groundbait.
I might subscribe to a year of IYCF instead - 12 months should be enough to read every article they're ever gonna write - and learn how to tie a knotless knot at least three times.
Simon
I won't be sad when my subscription runs out - I've bought one or other magazine from the David Hall stable since their inception in the 1970s but the quality and quantity of the articles has nose dived over the last couple of years - all the people who actually wrote their own articles have been dropped (Hadrian Whittle and Cathal Hughes to name just two) and when they are resorting to features looking inside the seatbox of anglers I've never heard of you know they must be struggling.
Does anybody know if the same clutch of Midlands commercial fisheries (and White Acres) actually pay for all the free advertising they receive since they get featured every single month.
I did think that when Matt Godfrey won the three-day Tees festival in August there'd be a full article about it but all we got was half-a-page with not even a single photo and yet the Trent festival fished around the same time - which he didn't win - got a full page write-up and a stack of photos - still I suppose we should be grateful for that half page - it's the first time the magazine has acknowledged there's life north of Lindholme for about two years.
Does anybody know what 250ml of casters equals in old money - there was an article on some big reservoir down south that measured casters in ml not pints and the author used three full bags of Daiwa groundbait so I stopped reading - nowhere locally sells the stuff and in any case if I started flinging twelve quid of groundbait in every week I'd soon be skint.
As usual the only piece worth reading was by Billy Makin. The sadly all too short article on a continental pairs festival in Holland was interesting too but everything else was just adverts for sponsored anglers products.
Even the 'free' groundbait offer for subscribers is uninspiring - it doesn't even include a bucket
I might subscribe to a year of IYCF instead - 12 months should be enough to read every article they're ever gonna write - and learn how to tie a knotless knot at least three times.
Simon