best sea anger or total fishing mag

hi whats the best one i read both

They're equally as Irrelevent to me as eachother...
Give me Irish Angler Any Day! :lol:

Though saying that, I've always enjoyed the Articles in Sea Angler..

But then again Daz Challenge is good in TSF.... Ahh Stuff it... I buy all 3.

Sea angler was my bible when i started back fishing 4 years ago(i had to start from scratch on my own again :? and still haven't learned anything :oops: )but recently i feel their doing alot more on boat fishing(i'll stop buying it after Dec. issue just to finish the complete years collection) .....TSF seems to be alot more down to earth with excellent articles(Daz challenge)...but i will probably agree Irish Angler is the best(love reading about other types of fishing, even if i wouldn't be into course or game fishing.)although it could do with more sea fishing(but you can't have everything :cry: ).

also it local in this country :D

I read them both but prefer TSF. Sea Angler seems to have a cycle of topics and every year or so it comes around to the same topic, different author. Plus Sea Angler always has loads of photos of Alan Yates and he puts me off my dinner!!! :lol:

tell me about him cant stand him :x

used to read them both, there both rubbish and irrelevant to me now. Alan Yates this Alan Yates that. all the magazines are about adds, adds and how to cast 300 yds. it doesn't really matter, and if there is fishing in it its about sand banks for bass bass bass which we don't really have(sand banks) or fishing in Scotland for monster? cod. sorry, but if i need advice IL talk to my local tackle shop or come here. id rather spend the money on beer or bait.

Bigliam-Bassy or anyone.... Serious question....what is it that you dont like about Alan Yates...???? or any of the others who write for magazines for that matter

Perhaps this should be a thread in itself...but I've asked the question now...so....I have my own opinions, but would like to hear others.

Tom.

alan yates=a****le

TSF all the way :D :D

I've never understood the complaint about the angling magzines being full of adds and rod reviews. If it wasn't for that they'd have nothing new in them and I'd still be paying way of the odds for sub standard tackle and advise. I remember going into one tackle shop in Limerick and the guy was trying to insist a penn senator reel would be great for shore fishing. John Holden reviews are top notch and the small bit of contact I've had with him I've found him very good for advise. I've always found Alan yates books and articles about the best there is when it comes to basic fishing tactics. Henry Gilbeys articles where he meets a top local angler and gives the low down of an area can also be very good an example would be the king of bling a couple fo years back. I believe Bill ryan will be featured shortly.

For me TSF doesn't have the same quality of authors but I have been buying it for the steve allmark piece that I've found quiet informative. I find I can read Irish angler in the shop in the space of 5 minutes as all I do is shore fish and nothing else. I got it at the start but about a year in I went through months of the sea angling quota being taken up by boat fishing so I stopped.

Donagh

rockhopper, i dont have anything against most of the guys from the mags but i always had this feeling that he was an idiot and when he said in an article that "all fish are stupid and mullet are no exeption" that was it.

how can someone say that!! the idea that all fish are stupid is ridiculous,i mean what about bass and mullet!! to me that just shows complete disrepct for the fish that we catch

Alex

Yates, Like all the lads in the Mags knows his stuff, he's a well respected member of the Angling community, Anything he brings to a magazine can be regarded as good knowledge. There's plenty of ppl out there in the Big Wide Angling world that dislike eachother, I personally can't watch John Wilson cos the way he laughs makes me cringe, doesn't make him a bad bloke like, its just I can't stand him... lol :lol:

Totally agree with you Donagh.A 5 minute flick through in the shop more than covers anything of interest for me in Irish angler.I used to buy all 3 mags but now I just get Sea-angler.Usually at least a few good articles and reviews.

I wouldn't say Sea angler is a bad mag. for a beginner like me it was a great place to start, like i said previous when i took up fishing i learned alot from this publication,it's just that after 4 years collecting the mag. you notice the same stories coming up time and again.As for Alan Yates (and anybody else )the guy has a passion for fishing so how bad can that be.i agree with Drew, John Wilson can be annoying but again he has a passion for fishing so respect to him he's made a living out of it,how many of us would like to be able to say that...... :oops: sorry i know this is a little long winded :oops: :oops: so i'll leave it at that.

well i've boycotted sea angler..

so anything other than that..

got into getting the irish angler now....

My main concern about Mr Yate's is purely cos he looks likea spitting image puppet and is not based on his knowledge! However now it has become a hot topic I do find him very righteous and I don't like the way there are advertising "features" appearing in sea angler that quote both him and steve souter that could easily be mistaken for proper articles. Plus he comes across as a pompous g**. I don't doubt he has forgotten more than most of us will ever know but does he have to suggest that every new development is based on something he identified as being significant ten years ago?

My main concern about Mr Yate's is purely cos he looks likea spitting image puppet

:lol: :lol: :lol:

but hasnt mr yates been at the forfront of sea angling, he has been a renowned shore angler for more years than he cares to remember, has a list of fish caugth that most of us can only dream of and i'm pretty sure he would kick most of our a$%es of we fished against them. i met him last year in kerry and couldnt have found him more approachable or helpful, alot more than some of this countries better known anglers. maby judgement should be held back until uve met them.
oh ya and i like them oth. their fishing mags and i just like reading about fishing, for the hour or 2 that i read them everything else just takes the back seat.i also fisd an over emphesis in irish angler on pike and game fishing although i understand u have to give all aspects of angling a fair say in a multi disipline mag

i met him last year in kerry and couldnt have found him more approachable or helpful, alot more than some of this countries better known anglers. maby judgement should be held back until uve met them.

fished beside the whole sea angler crew...

here's what i put...

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... hp?p=36060

and for those too young to know what spitting image is check here

this came no.2 in the charts :shock: :shock: :shock:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3FtKYOtOIkE

i forgot how sophistcated the humour of Spitting Image was :shock: brilliant :lol: :lol: :lol: