Supporting the Irish Angler magazine

The Irish Angler magazine is appealing to anglers to purchase their magazine, particularly if you are considering a uk equivalent. (appeal on their facebook page)
I for one think this is a noble appeal and will make a point of picking up a copy. I appreciate the content is mixed (sea/coarse/game) but at least its local. I'd prefer local content always over the chance to read about fishing from somehwere like grimsby or cornwall or worse still, wall to wall pictures of dead double figure bass in their new 'bass sections'.

So next time your thinking about an angling magazine purchase, buy an Irish Angler and have a flick through the uk options at the magazine stand

Hi Colm, With the amount of space dedicated to sea angling in IA it can quite easily be read in the shop.
As far as I know there is no UK fly fishing magazine with a token peice of sea angling in it so I'll keep buying the dedicated sea angling magazines and the Irish anglers Digest. Not being harsh I wish IA was better..

well said keith. not enough about sea angling in mag sorry

Hi Colm have to agree With above as bad as the uk ones are they cater for what I want to read about, would you buy IA if it had articles on DIY in it? Point being I will not buys mag to read 1 article about sea fishing.

i can understand some of the lads comments,as it covers game and course fishing more than sea angling,but for those of us that used to fish more diversely in our past lives its a great way to keep up with the gossip and it will help keep SOMEONE employed in this country if we all do our bit...and sometimes..only sometimes,i find myself missing my childhood perch fishing...

Used to be an avid reader, enjoying shore angling pieces by the Pete's, but with the lack of content for the Sea Angler I find myself drawn to the UK Mags more readily than IA, But as Noel up there ^^ said, it certainly has appeal for the more rounded anglers out there...

I wish I could agree and support Irish angler but every
Month I flick thru it in the shop for a reason to buy it,I'm never any longer than 5 minutes before I put it back onthe shelf

not enuff sea content i flick thru it read the salt stuff then put it back on the shelf they should have it mainly sea angling with maybe a page or two freshwater subject

have to agree with the all above, used to buy IA, monthly, while learning the basics, but got more relevant info off this site and the lads from ESRSAC.(Legends!) not enough shore angling content in the mag. Willl buy again if they give more salt water content. Just my two cents, I've never bothered with any other mags

Personally I think its a great mag but then I fly fish and do the occasional pike as well so it suits me nicely! Yeah I'd like to see more sea too and maybe a few more pages would be nice but it costs less than a pint and lasts abit longer so yeah, I'm very happy to keep supporting it! Would be a shame to see it go out of business.

Used to buy the irish angler all the time but over the past few years its sea angling content has diminished to practically nothing hence i just have a quick glance in the newsagent[60 secs].I now buy the english mags and to be honest no matter how many pages of adds there will always be an article of interest and sure now with the bass section theres always a section on fishing in ireland which is my main interest anyways.
The one thing i will say is if you buy sea angler mag for a year then you wont have to buy it the following year as it will be the same seasonal articles rehashed
In defence of irish angler ironically im using an article written by our own pete davis on 3 hook clipped rigs from last year,its well written and so easy to make the rigs[even for numpties like me] with the mag pages in front of me.
If more seafishing articles partically shore based appeared in irish angler i would buy it all day long again without question.
Tight lines

Still buy IA just to see if anyone i know is in it... and general gossip but as said above if they want Sea Anglers to buy it, they will have to market sea anglers, and not about foriegn shore reports,


Lesson for IA... you want to sell copies, Irish Sea Anglers want to BUY mags, with local info and people in it ....ermm have decent Irish Sea Angling info in the mags, The UK mags are raving about Irish Bass and Cod, and how Ireland is a Mecca for Sea Angling, yet in our own mags it gets at most 2pgs if were lucky There LOTS of stuff going on in the Sea Angling world, from Sea Anglers catching quality fish, to various other news of interest such as some places trying to restrict sea anglers, IA has the potential of stripping the UK mags with relevant news... Just food for thought lads I would love to see the mag do great!!

we only buy 3 mags each month, total sea fishing, irish angler and irish anglers digest.
i gave up on sea angler years ago as it was all the same stuff just re packaged.
but one thing i have spotted by comparison from years past and what's available now is that the irish angler magazine has a hell of a lot less pages in it
and there now seems to be more adverts than articles
i know that any mag needs advertising to help pay for it's self. but when the mag looks more like the yellow pages than an angling mag it will put people off. but all the mags seem to be going this way
i'll still keep buying it thow as we are becoming more rounded anglers and i always find it interesting to keep up to speed whats going on with the coarse and game scene.
and you'd be surprised at just how many different tips and techniques carry over from one discipline to another
but just taking a glance at it this month there are 2 page spreads that could be easily condensed down to a 1 page articles with txt over the pics that would free up a lot more pages.
i counted 6 pages that could have been freed up this month.
but then again i'm no editor
so it might be an issue with contributors or something?
i know a few forum members here wite for the mag. but with work and family committments it can be hard to free up the time to get articles done.
if thats the case then mabey the editor could do a recuitment drive from us sea anglers to boost the sea articles sections
just a thought.

As a shore angler exclusively it's a waste of money. I think there are better causes to give my money to then a magazine printed in England. If your starting out get sea angler as it will get you on the right track just ignore the tackle reviews. Saying that I haven't bought a copy in months.

still buy IA the odd time, like the fact it covers all areas of fishing but would to sea more sea fishing items in it, shore, casting and boat

uphill battle with mags here in ireland , as regards sea fishing any way , anything of interest is on the web weeks before you see it in the mags , so its old news , and who wants to spend there hard earned money on old news , they shouldnt even bother putting sea fishing articles in it anyway , for that reason alone because it turns lads away from buying it when they flick through it in the shops .
they need to be more creative if they want people to start buying it again , fresh articles , on all aspects , and pay the people who do them , with money !!!!! so they have the resources to go and get the info needed for it to be worthwhile
RIP IRISH MAGAZINES

While the mag industry is knackered I think that's why they asked for support. I'm sure it was aimed at occasional buyers who enjoy the mag and not an attempt to convert the masses. I for one am an occasional buyer. I enjoy the quality of the magazine as it uses much better paper and print (as does Anglers Digest by the way) then most mags. And I love the photography so I buy it on occasion. Therefore I will buy a copy and try and support them. I know the adverts are annoying but the ads keep down the cover price and really is where any publication makes it profits. The fact that a mag with limited circulation anyway can only tap into an even more limited advertising source really limits where they can source that revenue.

On another note I picked up a copy of Sea Angler in Tesco's the other night. Nothing jumped out at me that was fresh, new, interesting or exciting so I put it back. Still might buy it another month though.

Although I've spent God knows how much on mags over the years noting has thought me more about fishing then from the lads in any club I was in. There is an open meet on the East Coast coming up that anyone who wants to can go to. If you want all the local gossip on marks, species, reports, tips on rigs and baits, see guys casting or just an old chin wag this would be better then anything you'd pick up in a mag.

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bulletin%20board/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=37751

sea angler is worse in my opinion , its just recycleing old stuff from years ago , how anyone buys that is beyond belief if you put your money for sea angler mag into the irish one every month , you would be buying irish at least ?

Great thread, with a lot of honest opinions which i hope IA could learn from.
I buy sea angler, tsf, IA digest every month and i have been suscribing IA the last 3 years.
IA has really gone down hill lately to the point i almost didnt suscribe to it this year.
For example this months 3 sea articles being 2 boat fishing articles from cork, which were both very interesting.
The 3rd being an article done by the editor himself on Norwegian sea fishing, which was poor enough.
But for any angler that doesnt fish in cork regularly there was very little to be gained from the mag.
I dont mind the advertising and i like when there is good quality images in the mag.
In my mind in the recessionary times i should get more for my money not less for the same money.
IA seems to have lost writters lately and IA digest has defenitly improved with some very good articles in recent months.

IA best move would be put a plastic cover on the mag to stop ye cheapskates reading it in the shop

I think we've had this discussion before. It all sounds very familiar, any road.

I seem to remember the editor of IA came on here and invited contributions/submissions. Anybody take him up on that? (No, I'm not looking at you pete/Pete/JimC/JimH!)