There is a relatively new magazine featuring fly fishing in Western Canada. Their web site is www.homewatersonline.com . I haven't seen a copy yet, but I understand it is quite good. At least it should have a Western orientation. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kent Lufkin Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Flyfishing magazines Seems like I'm noticing more and more flyfishing magazines these
days. I picked up a couple last night I wasn't familiar with,
although the names on their masthead read like a who's who of the
sport.
Now that I've read Fly Fisherman, Fly Fishing & Tying Journal, Fish &
Fly, and Northwest Fly Fishing, it occurred to me this might be
another interesting list topic. Since, as usual, I've got a couple of
opinions, I'll get things started with my 2� worth.
Seems like most of the current crop of flyfishing magazines have a
national focus. While there are wonderful opportunities to fish for
Great Lakes steelhead, midwest bass, Pennsylvania trout, Atlantic
salmon in Quebec or bones in Florida, the reality is that I will most
likely never do so. However, it is entirely probably that I will
continue to explore waters within a 4-6 hour radius of Seattle or in
Alaska.
I was amazed that Fish & Fly chose to focus on the Southern
Hemisphere for their current issue, adorning their cover with a
busty, barely-clad babe fishing for bonefish in the Seychelles. There
were some nice photos of fish in it too as I recall ;-)
Frank Amato's Flyfishing & Tying Journal seems to me like one big ad
and catalog for his publishing house. The list of names on its
masthead reads like an invitation list to an Amato family reunion.
I've got to say my favorite magazine so far is Steve Probasco's
Northwesy Fly Fisherman. In additional to locally-relevant content, I
find the overall design and writing quality to be top-notch and not
nearly as corporate-looking as its nationally-focused competitors.
In the current issue, Probasco describes in painfully vivid detail
how he impaled a streamer in his nose while casting in the wind. Not
only does he have the ego strength to come clean with his audience,
he demonstrates bowling-ball sized cojones by including a photo of
the thing lodged in his schnoz, taken right before his guide removed
it, discovering in the process that the barb had not been crimped.
Probasco artfully turned the narrative into an object lesson on
checking and double checking ones equipment before using it.
It strikes me that the other mags mentioned above seem a tad too
corporate to print a story like that. But then that's my 2� worth.
What other magazines are out there that I've overlooked? Do any print
more frequently than every other month? Which ones do you subscribe
to and why?
Kent Lufkin
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