In reply to Post #16
Do those hashtag buckets come in different sizes? I'm after one that can double up as a bivvy sh@tter. :-)
Do those hashtag buckets come in different sizes? I'm after one that can double up as a bivvy sh@tter. :-)
In reply to Post #15
Carpology wouldn't take my submissions anymore after I sent in my pictures for fifty of the month. How was I supposed to know it was meant to be women? I spent ages in the mirror getting that selfie angle just right.
Carpology wouldn't take my submissions anymore after I sent in my pictures for fifty of the month. How was I supposed to know it was meant to be women? I spent ages in the mirror getting that selfie angle just right.
In reply to Post #19
lol
lol
In reply to Post #19
Was it you in the #diem camo mankini?
Was it you in the #diem camo mankini?
In reply to Post #21
There is a picture of me being overly friendly with a manikin at one of the sandown shows. But that's a whole other story. :-)
There is a picture of me being overly friendly with a manikin at one of the sandown shows. But that's a whole other story. :-)
In reply to Post #13
I arrived at first light and walked the lake, scanning it with my Fortis glasses. It was starting to drizzle so I zipped up my Aqua jacket, slipped on my Vass waders and set off to find the fish. This where my Trakker monocular really comes into its own. I fired up my ridgemonkey stove and kettle to sit back and watch the water from “shelleys” point. After seeing three bubbles I quickly set up my nash spodding station, I emptied a tub of Mainline tigers, 5kg of mainline cell, mainline response pellets and a bottle of mainline liquid into the bucket and using my free spirit spod and spomb spent the next two hours spodding the granny out of it. “
I like a good plug, so true
I arrived at first light and walked the lake, scanning it with my Fortis glasses. It was starting to drizzle so I zipped up my Aqua jacket, slipped on my Vass waders and set off to find the fish. This where my Trakker monocular really comes into its own. I fired up my ridgemonkey stove and kettle to sit back and watch the water from “shelleys” point. After seeing three bubbles I quickly set up my nash spodding station, I emptied a tub of Mainline tigers, 5kg of mainline cell, mainline response pellets and a bottle of mainline liquid into the bucket and using my free spirit spod and spomb spent the next two hours spodding the granny out of it. “
I like a good plug, so true
In reply to Post #13
"I arrived at first light and walked the lake, scanning it with my Fortis glasses. It was starting to drizzle so I zipped up my Aqua jacket, slipped on my Vass waders and set off to find the fish. This where my Trakker monocular really comes into its own. I fired up my ridgemonkey stove and kettle to sit back and watch the water from “shelleys” point. After seeing three bubbles I quickly set up my nash spodding station, I emptied a tub of Mainline tigers, 5kg of mainline cell, mainline response pellets and a bottle of mainline liquid into the bucket and using my free spirit spod and spomb spent the next two hours spodding the granny out of it"
We jest, but for many years people had to be told what was good, they soaked it up like a sponge and they bought/sold stuff until they realised what worked and what didn't. Then came the chinese tat peddled by the mags because they didn't want to bite the hand that feeds them. I think that is why baboon reels, solar stainless etc hold such a high value in the market, because it is quality that lasts for decades. There are products that only came out in the early 2010's that have now dissapeared off the face of the earth due to how piss poor they were.
"I arrived at first light and walked the lake, scanning it with my Fortis glasses. It was starting to drizzle so I zipped up my Aqua jacket, slipped on my Vass waders and set off to find the fish. This where my Trakker monocular really comes into its own. I fired up my ridgemonkey stove and kettle to sit back and watch the water from “shelleys” point. After seeing three bubbles I quickly set up my nash spodding station, I emptied a tub of Mainline tigers, 5kg of mainline cell, mainline response pellets and a bottle of mainline liquid into the bucket and using my free spirit spod and spomb spent the next two hours spodding the granny out of it"
We jest, but for many years people had to be told what was good, they soaked it up like a sponge and they bought/sold stuff until they realised what worked and what didn't. Then came the chinese tat peddled by the mags because they didn't want to bite the hand that feeds them. I think that is why baboon reels, solar stainless etc hold such a high value in the market, because it is quality that lasts for decades. There are products that only came out in the early 2010's that have now dissapeared off the face of the earth due to how piss poor they were.
In reply to Post #24
Unfortunately there is a massive market for the copies and cheap chinese trash, as people don't want to pay good money any more. The magazines almost have to advertise some if they are paid to as it will sell and the money from the ads will keep them afloat. Just look at the amount of bait companies that are around now, I will be polite and say some of which rather than nost of which are cheap rubbish, but the price point works for some and unfortunately it will always sell for that reason.
Unfortunately there is a massive market for the copies and cheap chinese trash, as people don't want to pay good money any more. The magazines almost have to advertise some if they are paid to as it will sell and the money from the ads will keep them afloat. Just look at the amount of bait companies that are around now, I will be polite and say some of which rather than nost of which are cheap rubbish, but the price point works for some and unfortunately it will always sell for that reason.
The last mag I purchased was the Final copy of CW. I'm not sure why tbh ,BUT I thought it deserved to be the last edition after ploughing through it...I came ..I saw..I smashed the backside out of it....AGAIN type articles, not to mention the endless adverts. It really was a shadow of a groundbreaking mag.Admittedly it was the 1st proper mag aimed at us on a monthly basis once it had an established foothold and a growing readership..Unsure if BC ran concurrent?
As sad as it sounds,I used to like reading the GENUINE and UNPAID/UNSPONSORED product reviews.They were honest and unbiased..if the reviewer thought they were crap,they said so but maybe not quite so bluntly lol. Quite a few of my early purchases were influenced by these guys and on more than one occasion In remember trawling through umpteen editions of CW in an attempt to find a particular review I had read! Once corporate tie ins became common,the reviews were just a repeat of the company blurb, found elsewhere in the same bloody mag in their advert..Talk about a pointless waste of editorial space!
Maybe the above is a reason we find the classified section with so many unwanted/wrong item posts..Readers of the comics, blindly following what the corporate slaves say we need to catch these manky commons from concrete bowls. None of these 'reviewers' are allowed to mention or highlight negative aspects..every item is indispensable and the next best thing.
There's some good lads on here who know their onions and whose advice many would be wise to pay attention to,but like the mags there is a growing population of 'instant' wannabes which is in a way sad because they haven't learnt to appreciate their surroundings,their captures or their quarry perhaps as they should or pick out the dross from the good.
As for the future of the printed word,in magazine form I fear its fate is sealed with regards to quality editorial content. Books however will be around for a long time,as long as the likes of Hearn,Penners,Lane etc keep angling
As sad as it sounds,I used to like reading the GENUINE and UNPAID/UNSPONSORED product reviews.They were honest and unbiased..if the reviewer thought they were crap,they said so but maybe not quite so bluntly lol. Quite a few of my early purchases were influenced by these guys and on more than one occasion In remember trawling through umpteen editions of CW in an attempt to find a particular review I had read! Once corporate tie ins became common,the reviews were just a repeat of the company blurb, found elsewhere in the same bloody mag in their advert..Talk about a pointless waste of editorial space!
Maybe the above is a reason we find the classified section with so many unwanted/wrong item posts..Readers of the comics, blindly following what the corporate slaves say we need to catch these manky commons from concrete bowls. None of these 'reviewers' are allowed to mention or highlight negative aspects..every item is indispensable and the next best thing.
There's some good lads on here who know their onions and whose advice many would be wise to pay attention to,but like the mags there is a growing population of 'instant' wannabes which is in a way sad because they haven't learnt to appreciate their surroundings,their captures or their quarry perhaps as they should or pick out the dross from the good.
As for the future of the printed word,in magazine form I fear its fate is sealed with regards to quality editorial content. Books however will be around for a long time,as long as the likes of Hearn,Penners,Lane etc keep angling
In reply to Post #12
you need to meet requirements to get in though?
i still look about for the older magazines because they are a bit more interesting to read when seeking a little insipration when you can get out.
I think alot of the limited publications will survive (Sub Fallons Angler etc, Sub took a change with less word content and i dont think its as good a the 3 before)
you need to meet requirements to get in though?
i still look about for the older magazines because they are a bit more interesting to read when seeking a little insipration when you can get out.
I think alot of the limited publications will survive (Sub Fallons Angler etc, Sub took a change with less word content and i dont think its as good a the 3 before)
I have not bought a carp magazine for about 7 years, maybe longer, maybe 10 years I used to regularly buy about 4 a month, then eventually cut down to just Carpology, then after going a few years hardly reading them and just instead browsing through them basically and collecting them, and only reading "What's new etc" and reviews etc, and after reading a stupid article by a well known angler (stated that Carp are not bottom feeders amongst other rubbish he wrote), that was enough to tip me over the edge and cancel my subscription from WH Smiths.
And then I gave my collection of carp mags away and binned what I did not as I doubt I would ever read them again and all they do is collect dust.
There is only so much dribble you can read about an anglers write up about how they caught a certain carp that gets repeated every month. Usually the same basic article, different angler, different carps name, different lake, different bait, different rig, different weather, etc. The same old story, just different names.
These days, if I want to take a magazine to read, and its unusual, I'll usually pick up a general knowledge magazine, maybe Astronomy, aircraft or military history etc, far more interesting than repeatedly reading about how to tie a knotless knot or the same old rig that has been on the go years, but reinvented with a different name as if its something new.
Basically what it all boils down to is, if you just put into a money box what you spend on a magazine, you can eventually buy a good book when it is released but as you have normally been squandering your money on magazines, that expensive book is to expensive to buy. Or even buy some new tackle.
Rant over.
And then I gave my collection of carp mags away and binned what I did not as I doubt I would ever read them again and all they do is collect dust.
There is only so much dribble you can read about an anglers write up about how they caught a certain carp that gets repeated every month. Usually the same basic article, different angler, different carps name, different lake, different bait, different rig, different weather, etc. The same old story, just different names.
These days, if I want to take a magazine to read, and its unusual, I'll usually pick up a general knowledge magazine, maybe Astronomy, aircraft or military history etc, far more interesting than repeatedly reading about how to tie a knotless knot or the same old rig that has been on the go years, but reinvented with a different name as if its something new.
Basically what it all boils down to is, if you just put into a money box what you spend on a magazine, you can eventually buy a good book when it is released but as you have normally been squandering your money on magazines, that expensive book is to expensive to buy. Or even buy some new tackle.
Rant over.
In reply to Post #25
Unfortunately there is a massive market for the copies and cheap chinese trash, as people don't want to pay good money any more
There's the flip side to that, companies who pretend they are manufacturers with badges on all their products which in reality they are just salesmen importing Chinese crap. They then sell it to anglers for a vastly overinflated fee. Minimal output, boat in, stock in, stock out with maximum input £. I certainly don't think it's people don't pay good money, quite the opposite for me, top dollar in a lot of cases and limited choice, lots of Chinese crap to choose from amongst a few proper top quality products as I see it?
What is interesting now is since the demise of mags which their endless advertising campaigns which probably helped to dive this? I guess all of their sales pitches now are videos and websites, wonder how much exposure they really get?
Unfortunately there is a massive market for the copies and cheap chinese trash, as people don't want to pay good money any more
There's the flip side to that, companies who pretend they are manufacturers with badges on all their products which in reality they are just salesmen importing Chinese crap. They then sell it to anglers for a vastly overinflated fee. Minimal output, boat in, stock in, stock out with maximum input £. I certainly don't think it's people don't pay good money, quite the opposite for me, top dollar in a lot of cases and limited choice, lots of Chinese crap to choose from amongst a few proper top quality products as I see it?
What is interesting now is since the demise of mags which their endless advertising campaigns which probably helped to dive this? I guess all of their sales pitches now are videos and websites, wonder how much exposure they really get?
In reply to Post #13
In reply to Post #26
Good post mate,..and other posters make very good points..
I believe in telling the truth,even if its unpopular, uncool and could potentially make one look bad..
Talking about reviews,well..I want someone to send me an item of tackle,and I will have zero,and I mean zero problem about saying how it is..
Remember,the second coming,you know the fox supa brolly,..it was crap wasn't it,but that time,it was d,bollox....
I plan to not buy much for carping in the future,I have enough,enough is enough,unless something breaks,or genuine improvement in portability etc..
The fish,the environment and ecosystems,those are the real things we should be concerned with...
Good post mate,..and other posters make very good points..
I believe in telling the truth,even if its unpopular, uncool and could potentially make one look bad..
Talking about reviews,well..I want someone to send me an item of tackle,and I will have zero,and I mean zero problem about saying how it is..
Remember,the second coming,you know the fox supa brolly,..it was crap wasn't it,but that time,it was d,bollox....
I plan to not buy much for carping in the future,I have enough,enough is enough,unless something breaks,or genuine improvement in portability etc..
The fish,the environment and ecosystems,those are the real things we should be concerned with...
In reply to Post #29
I've bought Carp mags since the 80's but this month it ends, as I've grown sick also of what you have noted Chris – might as well be looking at the Chinese Alibaba web site.
Past few months I've not read a single page, just flicked through and then used as wrapping paper for orders.
I've bought Carp mags since the 80's but this month it ends, as I've grown sick also of what you have noted Chris – might as well be looking at the Chinese Alibaba web site.
Past few months I've not read a single page, just flicked through and then used as wrapping paper for orders.