cant say Im surprised if Im honest

what I am surprised is the Total Crap Carp mag hasnt gone under ?

In reply to Post #16

I used to get 3 bob a Week pocket money back in I would say 1971-2, I'd buy the angling times, some sweets and as many boxes of matches as I had change for.
Go up the railway embankment at the back of our house Catch the grass alight sit back and eat the sweets whilst reading the paper.

In reply to Post #18
Like you do, ****ing crackers, I'm a firestarter, Arsonist?

Used to love it as kid, always preferred the Mail to the Times as it was a magazine and the Times was a paper. I would tear out the pages with features on rigs and the way to catch fish and keep them in a plastic wallet. I remember Andy Little being the main man 🙂 and if my memory serves me right didn't Dave Harell get turned into a Cartoon feature?

In reply to Post #20
Andy littles was a great column

As was Dave Coster's

Used to buy it a bit but mainly the AT for me, couldn't afford both

Certainly couldn't afford sweets and a few boxes of matches

In reply to Post #18
Are you still at it these days mate?

Any good blazes we can read about on line?

In reply to Post #22
He's just got back from a holiday in California

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In reply to Post #23

sign of the times im afraid ,the internet is so easy to use and allows you to refine what you want to see ,damn shame though used to love reading the mail and times back in the day

A shame but a sign of the times I guess, Back when we were kids (early 80's) we devoured anything carp related, Times, Mail, Coarse fisher/man, Carp Fisher, the Carp Catcher etc. But once Carpworld/Big Carp appeared these were a godsend in relation to the sparse content in the earlier weeklies. Carp Talk usurped them even further. You would have thought with the recent resurgence in angling and supermarkets carrying a lot of news print nowadays there would have been a market for it to survive but social media kills all in front of it.. unfortunately

Hands up if you've been on the front page over the years

18 year old me with a smelly bream of all things!

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In reply to Post #28
I thought it was Prince William