Until around two years ago, I never in a million years saw myself sitting avidly watching a fishing rod for the slightest sign of a bite! You see, I’m a girlie girl (or woman!) – I never go out without make up; I like to paint my finger nails and I really don’t like getting my hands dirty. ... Read review
Advantages: Comprehensive coarse fishing coverage; cheap and affordable; helpful for real amateurs Disadvantages: Can sometimes be a little sexist
...anglers. It provides carp anglers with lots of useful hints and tips about what bait to use, new methods to try etc.
This week’s issue also has a “Tackle on Test” (about the fishing gear, not the fishermen girls!)feature and a step by step guide on how to make pellet paste. These features are useful if you’re planning a fishing trip and want to try out some new techniques.
Another regular feature is a regional guide ... ...into sections – the North and Wales, Midlands and East Anglia, South and South West, London and South East, etc. We’ve used this regional guide on many occasions for weekend fishing trips, but it has been most useful for us to establish good venues for longer fishing trips. For the past three years, we’ve booked a fortnight’s fishing holiday using the information provided in these pages! In fact, in just three weeks time, we’re off again to a venue ... more
Until around two years ago, I never in a million years saw myself sitting avidly watching a fishing rod for the slightest sign of a bite! You see, I’m a girlie girl (or woman!) – I never go out without make up; I like to paint my finger nails and I really don’t like getting my hands dirty. Beasts and bugs and flying insects scare the living daylights out of me. Anyway, a couple of years ago, I was conned into going on a fishing holiday with my husband and to be honest, it was a revelation. I loved every single minute of it, including getting soaked to the skin and getting those lovely soft hands dirty! My husband has been a keen fisherman since he was a child and has subscribed to the Angler’s Mail for as long as I can remember.
But these days, guess who gets her hands on it first …. Yes, me! Carp are my fish of choice and the largest fish I’ve caught is between 5 and 6 pounds. But in the Angler’s Mail they have fantastic pictures of double figure, whopper, gigantic, massive, humungous carp for this fisher woman to drool and dream over!
Obviously there’s a bit more to the publication than that though! At the moment the price has been cut to a “trial price” offer of 90p but ordinarily retails at £1.10.
The front cover usually contains a picture relating to a story inside and some inset headlines about more of the content. The cover picture is usually something attention grabbing - this week’s is “Essex Girls to Star Soon”, and sometimes it’s a celebrity fisherman picture, like Chris Tarrant who is a keen angler.
The magazine takes its fishing ethics very seriously and frequently contains content on the latest environmental information affecting fish and their surroundings. For example, this issue has a feature on the recent Thames sewage pollution that killed as many as 100,000 fish. The publication also frequently upholds the ongoing debate about barbed or barbless hooks (there are arguments for and against both) and sometimes includes information about scientific breakthroughs in fish breeding techniques. As you might expect from such a publication, the content has a heavy pictorial content, mainly of angler’s catches, but also of fishing venues, tackle and environmental issues.
My favourite section is “Carp World” (not surprising since this is what I mainly fish for). This is a weekly column that covers four pages containing lots of full colour pictures of catches, equipment, bait, tackle and anglers. It provides carp anglers with lots of useful hints and tips about what bait to use, new methods to try etc.
This week’s issue also has a “Tackle on Test” (about the fishing gear, not the fishermen girls!)feature and a step by step guide on how to make pellet paste. These features are useful if you’re planning a fishing trip and want to try out some new techniques.
Another regular feature is a regional guide to the best angling venues across the country broken down into sections – the North and Wales, Midlands and East Anglia, South and South West, London and South East, etc. We’ve used this regional guide on many occasions for weekend fishing trips, but it has been most useful for us to establish good venues for longer fishing trips. For the past three years, we’ve booked a fortnight’s fishing holiday using the information provided in these pages! In fact, in just three weeks time, we’re off again to a venue recommended by the Angler’s Mail in a little place called Clayhidon, set in the Blackdown Hills on the borders of Somerset and Devon. We’ve been once before and it really is rural, peaceful and spectacularly unspoilt and beautiful and we have the Angler’s Times to thank for helping us locate such a great place.
We don’t fish “competitively” – just for fun, but if you’re interested in competition there is usually some coverage of previous and up and coming events.
A “hobby” magazine such as this one, is heavily dependent on advertising, so there is a significant, but not annoying amount of marketing going on here. However, it is all relevant to the sport and that does make it less irrirating and in fact, can be very useful. One of my presents for my recent 40th birthday was a brand new, shiny, carbon fibre fishing rod, secured through Angler’s Mail advertising! This issue has 15 full pages of advertising out of a total of 68.
My one major criticism of this magazine is that when it comes to featuring woman anglers, it can be rather sexist. I’m not into feminism and political correctness to any extreme, but it does get a bit annoying when a female angler is pictured with a catch and the camera’s focus is clearly on her breasts/cleavage, rather than the subject of interest! And when that happens they tend to attach slap stick comedy titles and it really irks me – rant over.
On the whole though, I think it’s great and it gives really comprehensive coverage on everything that I could want to know about coarse water fishing, and I’m still a relative newbie. I’ve tried not to give a blow by blow account of every single feature of this specific issue, but rather provide a broader view of the type of general content that is given week by week. And hopefully have managed to illustrate this by showing how we’ve actually managed to pro-actively use this magazine, which makes it quite unique in my opinion.
Angler’s Mail is an IPC publication. Subscription’s can be secured via quarterly direct debit (£15), annual (£60) and two yearly (£120). Subscriber’s can indicate whether the subscription is a gift.
Hope this is helpful for other keen fisher women out there.
...papers. The Anglers Mail is definitely a good read (when I can get hold of it - distribution in Cornwall seems pretty limited when compared with others like it). The best thing about it is the news content. I think that it even probably beats the 'Angling Times' on this. Its well laid out and there's quite a lot sometimes, squeezed in to relatively few pages. This is a good thing really. I personally think that although its not planned like this, ... ...There are pictures of anglers with their catches all over the place in this one. Apart from its news content, it also has an excellent match planner. Here it gives listings of the upcoming weeks matches in all different regions. These are sent in by the organisors (who obviously want as many people as possible to enter), so there's no shortage of events. Also on the match side, there's a results section. Here there are complete run downs of winners, ...
BJEEE 24.12.2000
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...find the Swap Shop where anglers can advertise for sale any tackle they want to sell or advertise for tackle they want to get and some people are willing to swap tackle with you. A useful section of the magazine.
The classified section mainly deals with fishing holidays and venues but is very useful and a list of forthcoming matches for the match angler also appears as a regular weekly feature.
This is a magazine crammed full of great articles ...
jonwhite 30.11.2000
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Cheap! Only £1, and stuffed full of the best articles. The news section is pretty good, with all the most relevant stories. Unlike the more expensive monthlies, it is not full of advertising, and unlike Angling Times, it is not in newspaper format, so its much easier to read. Has some excellent articles, and covers just about every aspect of fishing, from match, to sea, to carp, to river and anything else you can think of minus fly fishing. All this ...
Domhughes 14.12.2000
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