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? Sea Angler used to quote 45,000 readers and there were 3 sea fishing magazines. Now there is Sea Angler and possibly one other but I haven't seen it for ages and someone says that Sea Angler now only prints 5,000 copies and the Editor is now self employed, not sure how true this info is though. It suffered the same fate as others. Constantly regurgitating old stories, blatantly biased towards its advertisers and not having anyone on it's staff that could identify sea fish so wrongly giving prizes to the wrong fish. I'm almost tempted to bring out another magazine to put it out of it's slow lingering death.

Back in the day there were reporting stations in angling shops across the country. We'd fish at the weekend & if we caught anything worthwhile we'd rush to our local shop in order to make our report, hoping that it would appear in our chosen paper the following weekend. Anglers would then rush to the newsagent on Friday to scour locations or check results before deciding where to fish at the weekend. Beyond that we had innovative writing from the likes of Richard Walker or perhaps more retrospective writing from from Bernard Venables. The 50's, 60's and 70's were truly the golden years of angling and especially angling writing, in my aged, biased opinion!

Not the first time an imported carp caused problems i wonder if it was actually released before being landed? We moved into one of the villages biggest argricultural show winner s house ,won lots of classes in the annual show. On digging up the plants in one bed all the living ones were in pots and there was lots of pots with nothing in just under the surface. Did he grow these plants? Perhaps over winter them in his greenhouse or just pop of to a garden center and buy them and get his rosettes We even found the bigger plants in them with the roots having found their way out ,as to the garden itself even a one ton bag of topsoil couldnt make the dips in the lawn disappear so i doubt he was as good as they thought When it comes to carp dogs or plants people use any means to win even importing winners to get them to the top Strange he doesnt mind getting his name in the press though obviously still craves recognition and i see the purists point that some guy (who may not even fish) could import a huge fish from abroad put it alone in a tiny lake and catch it and claim a record when the poor thing grabs the only food offering available

I was looking on the magazines for sale in Tescos shelves today and there was actually a ‘Bus’ magazine; so how can a Bus magazine make money? Surely there can’t be enough ‘Bus’ fanatics to make it viable can there? If a magazine about ‘buses’ can make enough money to make a magazine viable on the shelves then why can’t a fishing weekly like AM? if they gave us anglers a weekly magazine that everyone really wanted instead of the same old regurgitated stuff?.

All, One day, Little Johnny saw his grandpa smoking his cigarettes. Little Johnny asked, “Grandpa, can I smoke some of your cigarettes?” His grandpa replied, “Can your pen!s reach your a$shole?” “No”, said Little Johnny. His grandpa replied, “Then you’re not old enough.” The next day, Little Johnny saw his grandpa drinking beer. He asked, “Grandpa, can I drink some of your beer?” His grandpa replied, “Can your pen!s reach your a$shole?” “No” said Little Johhny. “Then you’re not old enough.” his grandpa replied. The next day, Little Johnny was eating cookies. His grandpa asked, “Can I have some of your cookies?” Little Johnny replied, “Can your pen!s reach your as$shole?” His grandpa replied, “It most certainly can!” Little Johnny replied, “Then go f*ck yourself. These are my cookies!”