irish anglers digest

[keith]

I'm with Tanglerat on this, I think the mag does a great job for what it tries to do. Ireland doesn't have a big enough market for a dedicated sea angling mag, IA has to cover all disciplines in order to sell enough copies/ad revenue. I also fish for salmon and trout a lot, and the game anglers I know would like to see more game angling coverage, so we're all in the same boat lads. If you want to read a mag with loads of sea angling features buy Sea Angler or TSF, I do, and I also buy Trout and Salmon to get more game angling info. IA is a good mag, albeit we might not always agree with certain authors views.
Certain people on this thread have been highly critical of one or two contributors, so lets see you guys step up to the mark and write something you consider better...

The magazine is FULL of game angling it has little coarse or sea fishing, Why not give each discipline of angling equal space in the magazine??

[AG]

it would cost money to pay the "pros" to do articles etc , magazines here would not pay the money ? but you got to spend money to make money thats why all irish mags look amateur

[round_ourway]

I read this mag from time to time. I think the main appeal to the other english mags is the skills section in it. The best piece they did was with those two fellas and developing there skills to a very high grade. I love the idea of following a pro in certain aspects of sea angling.. for instance Dave Roe on the match scene. Paddy and Andrew on the casting scene. Even following a junior angler from the master angler comps to the home nations?
Some of the best written pieces on the sea angler is through the eyes of those guys from the
24 / 7 club. It captures the Banter that goes on when we go fishing.

[Bradan]

The magazine is FULL of game angling it has little coarse or sea fishing, Why not give each discipline of angling equal space in the magazine??

Just checked the August issue - 23 pages on game angling, 17 on sea angling, and 12 on coarse angling. So sea angling gets 73% of the coverage that game angling gets. Thats a bit different from saying the magazine is FULL of game angling and has little sea fishing.
In my experience that reflects the market in Ireland - there are more dedicated game anglers than there are sea anglers. Thats excluding casual anglers who spend little to nothing on tackle and only fish for mackerel - they don't buy magazines either. Trout and salmon fishing in Ireland have always been popular. The vast majority of enquiries to angling information officers in the fishery boards relate to game angling. There is a bigger spend on game angling. Tackle manufacturers make more profit on game angling. Tackle manufacturers and dealers spend more on advertising to game anglers.
Look at the same issue - ads targeting game anglers outnumber ads targeting sea/coarse/pike anglers almost 2 to 1.
The point is angling covers a wide range of disciplines, and they can't all get the same space or the magazine won't sell enough copies to make money. The editor has to decide how much space to give each discipline, and advertising spend and market research will inform him of how best to do that - and you cribbing cos you want sea angling to have the same number of pages as game angling is not going to sell him any extra copies!

[keith]

The point is angling covers a wide range of disciplines, and they can't all get the same space or the magazine won't sell enough copies to make money. The editor has to decide how much space to give each discipline, and advertising spend and market research will inform him of how best to do that - and you cribbing cos you want sea angling to have the same number of pages as game angling is not going to sell him any extra copies![/quote]

If this is the case then wouldn't they sell more copies by scrapping sea angling altogether from the mag?

[samo]

I think this tread has gone off the point. its not about the quantity of pages/articles devoted to sea angling its about the quality of the information contained in the articles. a lot of the sea anglers have given good suggestions as to how to improve the sea angling section and no doubt they have been taken on board by the editors.

[wilky83]

This stsrted off with someone talking about irish angler digest which does exist and IS NOT irish angler they sell it in easons in cork, its good really good article on bass fishing with bob moss about braid and wind knots and the like , but im not sure about back issues sorry mate tight lines