Kayak Angler Magazine

[richi]

No no, I mean the usual shore and boat angling magazines, very lightweight and chokka full of advert pages.

 

 

Sorry but I have to disagree there,Simon Everett has written some EXTREMEly good articles about Kayakfishing in the U.K.in both shore and boat angling magazines

 

He's done articles on targetting Tope and Conger from a kayak and that is not LIGHTWEIGHT stuff

 

He has also done a heck of a lot of work and spent a lot of his free time training people for free,inspiring people and furthering our sport.

Edited December 15, 2008 by richi

[maidstonemike]

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[Moonyaker]

I would given the choice prefer to read a Kayak Fishing magazine that contained articles about Kayak fishing on both sides of The Pond (or the entire globe) in preferance to sporadic pieces about British Kayak Fishing in less specialist magazines over here but that is not to denigrade Simon Everett's articles in BFM, SA etc. at all. The UK kayak fishing fraternity is of such a small size that a glossy hard copy format would never be financially unviable so you are only ever going to get limited UK/Irish coverage in a more specialist International Mag. or less specialist UK Mag. or an E-mag.

 

I think that there is always something to be learned from others and that techniques used elsewhere in the world can frequently be adapted to our environment.

 

I don't suppose that we would be Yak Fishing and Lure fishing over here to the degree that we are if that were not the case..........

[roccoyak]

I fish in British waters, well sort of, Channel Islands waters, and found the magazine very readable and interesting, and would certainly welcome reading future issues online as they appear. Not just the kayak fishing world but the whole of the kayaking market is relatively small so Mark is right, I doubt it would be worth someone's while putting a mag together in the UK, at least one which needed plenty of advertising to cover glossy costs etc. But please don't knock it guys, a free read of this quality whether from the US or Oz or whatever is always a fun read and helps to cheer up a deepening European winter.

 

I find it interesting reading how guys from over the pond go about their kayak fishing, and certainly a lot of the articles do have relevance to us as they're about rigging and set ups and so on- things that we do over here just as much. I quite like reading about bigger critters like tarpon or snook rather than cod and chips that we have over here

 

Just my two dollars worth.

 

Oh and its not just cod and chips here either. Last week, just a couple of miles or so off Jersey's West Coast, a long standing local record went as someone caught a 16lb 10oz bass off live sand eel bait. His mate had one in the same session, also over 16lbs but just a little lighter, which had earlier broken the same record. All this in MID DECEMBER :rolleyes: