Is that it now? Just a few left and we could see their total demise within the next ten years.
WHSmith sell SEVENTEEN different types of train magazine. Why can they survive and angling print media cannot?
Difficult question to ask, but did they cause their own demise? Did people just get bored of paying a subby to read about a variation of dissolving pva?
With the amount of free content on Youtube, and the move towards anglers preferring tales of campaigns rather than the 4th version of the chod, is anyone actually surprised? In my opinion we had fifteen years of sometimes toe curling promotion from a salesman, dressed up as a pictorial piece. There were often a dozen "how to" pieces with the occasional diary piece from a journeyman on a runs water. It appears people wanted quantity over quality at the time, which could be down the the massive explosion in carp angling in the earlier 2000's thanks to Korda etc and their ability to get on our screens via TV and DVD.
Roll on 15 years, and some of the best and most viewed pieces on youtube are tales of journeys, warts and all, with well produced videography that inspires. It would be interesting to see the sales figures whenever Terry Hearn writes in Carpology, or Adam Penning, because their writing is the closest you'll get to a lot of the free content they have produced on youtube.
I believe with the increased interest in Podcasts and paid-for videography which has rocketed the last 12 months, I believe the end is nigh for the print media in carp angling.
WHSmith sell SEVENTEEN different types of train magazine. Why can they survive and angling print media cannot?
Difficult question to ask, but did they cause their own demise? Did people just get bored of paying a subby to read about a variation of dissolving pva?
With the amount of free content on Youtube, and the move towards anglers preferring tales of campaigns rather than the 4th version of the chod, is anyone actually surprised? In my opinion we had fifteen years of sometimes toe curling promotion from a salesman, dressed up as a pictorial piece. There were often a dozen "how to" pieces with the occasional diary piece from a journeyman on a runs water. It appears people wanted quantity over quality at the time, which could be down the the massive explosion in carp angling in the earlier 2000's thanks to Korda etc and their ability to get on our screens via TV and DVD.
Roll on 15 years, and some of the best and most viewed pieces on youtube are tales of journeys, warts and all, with well produced videography that inspires. It would be interesting to see the sales figures whenever Terry Hearn writes in Carpology, or Adam Penning, because their writing is the closest you'll get to a lot of the free content they have produced on youtube.
I believe with the increased interest in Podcasts and paid-for videography which has rocketed the last 12 months, I believe the end is nigh for the print media in carp angling.
In reply to Post #1
I would have to agree with you mate. I still get Carpology, but tbh it takes me 2 weeks of bit reading now, as there is so much content on other platforms that inspire me a little more. I still find in interesting and get round to it, but I can fully understand those that don't both anymore.
I would have to agree with you mate. I still get Carpology, but tbh it takes me 2 weeks of bit reading now, as there is so much content on other platforms that inspire me a little more. I still find in interesting and get round to it, but I can fully understand those that don't both anymore.
In reply to Post #1
Can't remember the last time I bought a mag, but i do recall it being full of adverts and biased reviews. I don't think I've ever seen a product have a negative review in a mag.
Can't remember the last time I bought a mag, but i do recall it being full of adverts and biased reviews. I don't think I've ever seen a product have a negative review in a mag.
In reply to Post #1
Makes a lot of sense to me that. I think there is only so much you can print and I also think a lot of them lost the plot. A Carpworld was the last one I bought
Brag book and YouTube seem the places to be. There's some good news though, you can filter the quality from the load of **** that's about
One word that you mention, Inspire. Surely that is all people need to do?
Instead of been a complete and utter gob *****, bull****ter, with an over energetic false personality trying to pretend that carpins cool. It's carp fishing you sad ****s, get a ****ing life
Makes a lot of sense to me that. I think there is only so much you can print and I also think a lot of them lost the plot. A Carpworld was the last one I bought
Brag book and YouTube seem the places to be. There's some good news though, you can filter the quality from the load of **** that's about
One word that you mention, Inspire. Surely that is all people need to do?
Instead of been a complete and utter gob *****, bull****ter, with an over energetic false personality trying to pretend that carpins cool. It's carp fishing you sad ****s, get a ****ing life
In reply to Post #4
Yep, I enjoy the inspiring content of success in the face of adversity so it were.
One thing you mention is the attempt the make carping look cool, and that is something that has come from the youtube content mostly. Snap backs, drum and bass, personalised air max trainers and 50 grand transport vans to transport 6ft dwarf rods (naturally, minus the eye which snapped off for the 5th time). I didn't realise sitting in the pissing rain trying to catch a gammy common out of a south london concrete bowl was trendy
I would say that isn't a dig at Nash, I love their content. They produce some of the best stuff, especially euro banx. However just like Korda did in the 2000's, Nash have certainly inspired some utter cretins to appear over the last few years.
One thing I noticed during the lockdowns were the amount of full Nash set ups being flogged on the selling pages.
Yep, I enjoy the inspiring content of success in the face of adversity so it were.
One thing you mention is the attempt the make carping look cool, and that is something that has come from the youtube content mostly. Snap backs, drum and bass, personalised air max trainers and 50 grand transport vans to transport 6ft dwarf rods (naturally, minus the eye which snapped off for the 5th time). I didn't realise sitting in the pissing rain trying to catch a gammy common out of a south london concrete bowl was trendy
I would say that isn't a dig at Nash, I love their content. They produce some of the best stuff, especially euro banx. However just like Korda did in the 2000's, Nash have certainly inspired some utter cretins to appear over the last few years.
One thing I noticed during the lockdowns were the amount of full Nash set ups being flogged on the selling pages.
In reply to Post #1
You can't compare anglers to people who love trains of all sizes. We as anglers might be a bunch of nutters and some more than others, but the trainaholics are in a completely different league. Trut me on this one - I have been driving trains for more than twenty years and I have met my fair share of train lovers. The way they get worked up over details will make the bait section on here look like a place of peace and harmony.
You can't compare anglers to people who love trains of all sizes. We as anglers might be a bunch of nutters and some more than others, but the trainaholics are in a completely different league. Trut me on this one - I have been driving trains for more than twenty years and I have met my fair share of train lovers. The way they get worked up over details will make the bait section on here look like a place of peace and harmony.
In reply to Post #5
the attempt the make carping look cool, and that is something that has come from the youtube content mostly. Snap backs, drum and bass, personalised air max trainers and 50 grand transport vans to transport 6ft dwarf rods (naturally, minus the eye which snapped off for the 5th time). I didn't realise sitting in the pissing rain trying to catch a gammy common out of a south london concrete bowl was trendy
Exactly that for me, I wouldn't narrow it down to London though
You forgot, rallying cars, loud music, smoking dope, leaving litter, spodding the granny art of it, casting into other people's swims and just been a **** in general. I've seen some mongs over the years too
As for the mags, the content killed it for me. If you bought a mag the quality of reading got less and less, adverting got massive, suppose that's how they got a bit of revenue but unless you were after some new gear there was far too much of it for me, the reviews (promotions) got bigger and bigger (more ads) and some of the writing was just painful to read, a lack of people who could tell a good story is a dying breed and the rest you had heard 10 times over, plus there's only so many rigs a man can tie
Couple this with a falsified image that carpings cool and Joe Bloggs now has access to his own TV channel and wants to be a famous carp angler where he can play his rave music and tell the camera as many untruths as he likes, no wonder we are where we are now. It's a cyber sport now and I guess this all contributes to the demise of mags?
the attempt the make carping look cool, and that is something that has come from the youtube content mostly. Snap backs, drum and bass, personalised air max trainers and 50 grand transport vans to transport 6ft dwarf rods (naturally, minus the eye which snapped off for the 5th time). I didn't realise sitting in the pissing rain trying to catch a gammy common out of a south london concrete bowl was trendy
Exactly that for me, I wouldn't narrow it down to London though
You forgot, rallying cars, loud music, smoking dope, leaving litter, spodding the granny art of it, casting into other people's swims and just been a **** in general. I've seen some mongs over the years too
As for the mags, the content killed it for me. If you bought a mag the quality of reading got less and less, adverting got massive, suppose that's how they got a bit of revenue but unless you were after some new gear there was far too much of it for me, the reviews (promotions) got bigger and bigger (more ads) and some of the writing was just painful to read, a lack of people who could tell a good story is a dying breed and the rest you had heard 10 times over, plus there's only so many rigs a man can tie
Couple this with a falsified image that carpings cool and Joe Bloggs now has access to his own TV channel and wants to be a famous carp angler where he can play his rave music and tell the camera as many untruths as he likes, no wonder we are where we are now. It's a cyber sport now and I guess this all contributes to the demise of mags?
In reply to Post #6
Yep. My brother in law has a gaming PC which he dedicates to train simulator and dedicates a lot of his time to modding trains and building digital versions of new trains on the market. People offer him big money to recreate certain trains to use in their game. Mental.
Yep. My brother in law has a gaming PC which he dedicates to train simulator and dedicates a lot of his time to modding trains and building digital versions of new trains on the market. People offer him big money to recreate certain trains to use in their game. Mental.
I often wonder where the ‘this is all that's wrong with modern carp fishing' brigade actually fish? With no social media and a very nice ticket that took time and a bit of effort to get hold of I can safely say I never see any of the shenanigans that people on here seem to get so upset about?
In reply to Post #9
Total Carp Mag done a poll a few years ago and it came out at something silly like 90% of participants fished day ticket waters.
That is either a reflection on Total Carp Magazine, or we just don't realise that whilst we are alone on our club ticket ponds, there are hundreds of day tickets rammed to the gills with all echelons of society.
Total Carp Mag done a poll a few years ago and it came out at something silly like 90% of participants fished day ticket waters.
That is either a reflection on Total Carp Magazine, or we just don't realise that whilst we are alone on our club ticket ponds, there are hundreds of day tickets rammed to the gills with all echelons of society.
The BCSG mag The Carp is alive and kicking loads of great articles written be members for members. None of you usual regurgitation either.
Probably the best mag I have ever read.
Probably the best mag I have ever read.
In reply to Post #12
Yes it's very well put together, but it's not a commercial enterprise. It doesn't need to turn a profit and it doesn't need to keep the manufacturers sweet.
How long would a magazine last if it had honest reviews? “We tested xyz products and to be honest with you they are utter dog ****” End of magazine.
I stopped buying them years ago, but if any of you are missing the old content here's a quick piece I've knocked up for for you.
“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. “
In part two we find out how things worked out for Instant Dave on this session of a lifetime and we hear how he cancelled his wedding cos he was running low on Nash Fangs in a size 4.
Yes it's very well put together, but it's not a commercial enterprise. It doesn't need to turn a profit and it doesn't need to keep the manufacturers sweet.
How long would a magazine last if it had honest reviews? “We tested xyz products and to be honest with you they are utter dog ****” End of magazine.
I stopped buying them years ago, but if any of you are missing the old content here's a quick piece I've knocked up for for you.
“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. “
In part two we find out how things worked out for Instant Dave on this session of a lifetime and we hear how he cancelled his wedding cos he was running low on Nash Fangs in a size 4.
In reply to Post #13
Ahh the good old advertorial
I think I preferred that to the modern version
*Insert underexposed catch shot here*
Swipe right to see the rig it was caught on
Please subscribe to my you tube channel to see how I tie it
#everybaitandtacklecompanyyouveeverheardof
Ahh the good old advertorial
I think I preferred that to the modern version
*Insert underexposed catch shot here*
Swipe right to see the rig it was caught on
Please subscribe to my you tube channel to see how I tie it
#everybaitandtacklecompanyyouveeverheardof
In reply to Post #13
Did you used to write for Carpology Wayne?
Scarily accurate
Did you used to write for Carpology Wayne?
Scarily accurate
Catch Cult is a very impressive magazine and, I believe that every issue still sells out. They are quite niche, intentionally so. Various types of specimen angling covered and, of most importance, the writers are anglers of the very highest caliber, not the usual suspects or sponsored cretins with a handful of fish but bucketfuls of hashtags. It's a great read.