Ok, I am look to have my wonderful get me a subscription to a fly fishing mag this year. Well to make it short and sweet the only mag subscription I have ever had is Warm Water Fly Fishing. I am not a big tyier but besides that I like reading about just about any type of fly fishing. Any suggestions would be great!
Thanks in Advance
Jason
I like American Angler (6-7 issues per year) or Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Journal (quarterly). I found the others too political.
Fly Fisherman, American Angler; Flyfishing and Tying Journal is good, too and and Flyrod & Reel has some nice articles. If you get in to tying at any point, add Fly Tyer. You can usually find them in bookstores - look through them and see if they’re what you’re looking for.
Regards,
Scott
Fly Anglers Online is still the best magazine going. It just happens to be electronic. Just my 2 cents.
Fly Fusion, do have to agree that FAOL is the best electronic magazine there is.
Wayne
I have to admit I’ve let all my subscriptions expire. There’s so much available on-line now, I really don’t have much need for the magazines, except maybe to see where they’re hot-spotting so I can avoid those waters.
Regards,
Scott
Eastern Fly Fishing
Magazines make good reading in the “office”. That is the only use for them that I have as well. I prefer to read it online. If she is going to spend the $20 to get you a yearly subscription, grab a dozen flies or something and make it worthwhile.
I gave up on U.S. flyfishing magazines. They’ve been getting too political for me for a long time. They appear to write just for the advertisers. The only ones I read now are 2 U.K. based magazines, Trout fishing and Flyfishing& Flytying.
I am with Flick. The mags that I pick up at the newsstand and scan are 75% ads and 25% “articles” advertising places, products, or people. All I see in print is “buy the new and improved [item] or you are not a real flyfisher!”
I gave up on magazine subscriptions a long time ago and try real hard not to get any as gifts, since that seems to instantly translate into piles of junk mail when they sell my info to the marketers.
Once in a Blue Moon I will buy a flyfishing/tying magazine at the flyshop. The internet has supplyed me with most of what I need to research new patterns.
I absolutely love magazines because they are another source of ideas I never would have thought on my own and I can take them with me and read them wherever I am Internet or not. They keep me abreast of what’s going on in the fly fishing and tying world. Sometimes I’ll run out and buy the latest and greatest stuff they are promoting but more often than not I’ll look at what they are doing and think…hmmmmm. Can I do that with what I’ve got or find a cheaper substitute. My fly tying table is already overflowing with several lifetimes worth of fly tying materials so I seldom feel the need to buy anything but I still love looking at and reading about new patterns.
I subscribe to Fly Fisherman, Fly Tyer and Fly Fishing and Tying Journal. I read as many of the others as I can at the local Barnes and Noble.
Agree completely on the politics and the English mags. I read Flyfishing & Flytying pretty frequently. The English perspective and techniques are interesting.
Have to go with Eastern Fly Fishing, good articles and maps about all kinds of fly fishing east of the Miss. and all the way down to Fl, so South Carolina would be there. From Salt to Trout and in between. I’ve enjoyed it for several years.
I dropped everything but Fly Fisherman.
I also like Flyfishing & Flytying which, curiously, is cheaper by the mag in Barnes and Noble than getting a subscription.
Same here…I like Fly Fisherman and Flyfishing & Fly Tying…but after a decade I have dropped my subscriptions but I do still occasionally pick one up once in a while if I’m browsing the mag racks at the local book store. There are a number of free eMags out there but there is one magazine that I get at the moment that is quite good…but it’s not free. It’s called The New Fly Fisher eZine http://www.canflyfish.com/ The articles are quite good, as well it’s full of photos and videos. Other than those…my all time favorite was Midwest Fly Fishing magazine but with the passing of Tom Helgeson, so to did the magazine. It had a great writing staff.
I’ve been told the Midwest Fly Fishing magazine will continue with his son as editor/publisher. We certainly hope so and wish him well!
Well I enjoy reading the DRAKE and the photos more than an eye full at times! It it well written.
Fishin’ Jimmy
I’m in the same boat with you. I subscribe to the “top five” magazines and have for years. The others I check out at bookstores. Seems to me that if you like flyfishing and/or flytying, then you would enjoy reading about them. It’s true there are a lot of ads in the magazine but that’s what pays the bills. Without the ads the magazine price would be prohibitive.
Dave
Fly Fusion is a great read. I also enjoy Flyfishing and Tying Journal.
I really miss Wild Steelhead and Salmon though. That was a good read!