Steve Lewis
Senior Member
Sorting through all my fishing books and mags last night (most of them still boxed up from when we moved 16 years ago) cos there's not much else to do at the mo, and I'm missing a box of mags that I can only assume either got lost during the move or were accidentally taken down the tip prior to the move.
Anyway, it was a monthly IYCF competitor and, from memory, only lasted a few years around the mid 90s (couldn't have lasted too long as I had every issue and they all fit in one box quite comfortably). It was, at the time, my favourite of all the weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies put together (with the possible exception of The Waterlog), but it came to the part too late (or too early, depending on how you look at it - would probably do okay if it came out these days amongst the sea of mags largely concentrating on commercials and F1s).
For the life of me I can't remember what it was called, but I remember Ray Walton featured in it quite regularly, it concentrated on specimen coarse fishing (no match, pole or commercial stuff, no sea or game) with a particular slant towards barbel and river fishing, and it had a "reader's tale" section every month where people would write about their red letter day.
It's definitely NOT Coarse Angling Today or Total Coarse Fishing (which I don't think were around at the time), pretty sure it wasn't Coarse Fisherman or Coarse angler (because it was a new mag on the shelves AFTER I started fishing in the early 90s), I don't think it was Coarse Fishing Today (because I seem to remember that winding up quite soon after I started).
Unfortunately scouring Google and eBay has offered no clues.
Any ideas?
Really bummed that I can't find them...
Anyway, it was a monthly IYCF competitor and, from memory, only lasted a few years around the mid 90s (couldn't have lasted too long as I had every issue and they all fit in one box quite comfortably). It was, at the time, my favourite of all the weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies put together (with the possible exception of The Waterlog), but it came to the part too late (or too early, depending on how you look at it - would probably do okay if it came out these days amongst the sea of mags largely concentrating on commercials and F1s).
For the life of me I can't remember what it was called, but I remember Ray Walton featured in it quite regularly, it concentrated on specimen coarse fishing (no match, pole or commercial stuff, no sea or game) with a particular slant towards barbel and river fishing, and it had a "reader's tale" section every month where people would write about their red letter day.
It's definitely NOT Coarse Angling Today or Total Coarse Fishing (which I don't think were around at the time), pretty sure it wasn't Coarse Fisherman or Coarse angler (because it was a new mag on the shelves AFTER I started fishing in the early 90s), I don't think it was Coarse Fishing Today (because I seem to remember that winding up quite soon after I started).
Unfortunately scouring Google and eBay has offered no clues.
Any ideas?
Really bummed that I can't find them...
. Unfortunately I binned all the copies I had as my loft ( where I kept all my fishing memorabilia ) was in danger of collapsing into my bedroom. Pity, as I thought it was a nicely presented magazine with interesting articles ( especially mine
) covering all branches of the sport. I hope somebody is a more organised hoarder than me Steve and can help you out ( if this is the magazine you require).
