03-21-2009, 03:09 AM
Sorry and this is not positive but oh well.
About Field and Stream magazine. I can recall lots of Field and Stream magazines articles since I was a teenager, they never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never taught me a thing about fishing! Nothing! Nada! Zilch!Total waste of money!
Sure I got—in a very gullible fashion— "inspired" and thought I was reading something "useful". Ha!
I can recall reading an article about trout fishing. It talked about just general information and avoiding the "fancy" flies and lures. Fine but a beginner needs confidence to fish for trout. I never got any till I went out and fished for trout myself. You never really learn till you do it you know?
Not to be a smart alec, but hey paying $5 when you can just ask your fishing buddies you know? Gets annoying.
I got most of my knowledge from observing and just plain experimentation. Thats right, just good 'ol fashioned fishing with a night crawler and seeing which method works, i.e reeling a worm upstream, drifting, reeling a jigger at fast speed like then slowing it down at Utah Lake for White Bass, ect, ect....
I learned alot about the basics of rainbow trout by fishing a now defunct irrigation ditch in Pleasant Grove. I learned some of the basics of brown trout at the Provo River, using very simple techniques. Nothing complicated. And no reason to spend money on the junk that F & S magazine has to offer.
I don't even like Field and Stream, why? I can read the In-Fisherman, yes you get pages of photos of lunkers that they release. But at least you get some ways to land catfish and other species. And even the In-Fisherman magazine could improve a bit. But I did read an interesting article about catfish drift-fishing which I learned to do at Willard, and I love it. Good going In-Fisherman magazine. No Shakespeare crap like F & M magaine, they got right to the point.
Field and Stream magazine articles bores me, period. By the time I went to visit my mother in Kingman Arizona my step dad had like half a dozen or so Field Stream magazines. When I read them I had had it.
Here is an example of the Shakespeare crap when you read the articles:
Joe and I made it to our cabin in Montana at approximately at 6 AM Saturday. It was a beautiful morning that spring, with birds chirping and gorgeous monarch butterflies flying amidst the mystical morning Montana sunrise. I was thrilled to be here. I took out all of my gear. I had my two fly rods and an extra spinning rod, just in case I needed use lures. I unloaded my tackle box to see how many flies I had to imitate the Damsel flies, then I set up a nice fold up wooden fly-tying table that my grandpa made for me when I was sixteen years old.
Then I had to take off my shoes and leave them next to the wood burning heater that the cabin had. That was because it was raining. But the rain itself was to stop by the next morning. Joe and I had nothing to worry about. Joe had ot take his shoes off too. And he helped me tie the necesarry flies for tommorows sacred fly fishing excursion.
I took my chewing tobacco and took a wad of chew and stuck it between my tooth and gum, and was well on my way to tying dry flies.
Joe did me a big favor and brought an extra pair of sunglasses for me to block the harmful Montana morning sun. And that morning we headed to the Bighorn River the bright Montana morning sun was glaring as bright as spotlight I had ever witnessed.
"Hurry!", exclaimed Joe. "Lets get to the fishing!"
Boy was I excited.
As I got off the airplane that extremely beautiful morning at the airport in Helena. Little did I know that at the Bighorn River there would be thousands upon thousands of three to ten pound brown trout rising to mating Damsel flies.
When Joe and I got to the Bighorn River we saw tens of thousands of hungry and aggressive brown trout rising.
I hurried and took the dry flies from my vest pocket and tried a #18 dry Damsel fly. Jow tied a white #18 Damsel fly, but I caught the very first fish, an ten pounder.
Then I caught another three pounder, then Joe a five, then me a six, then Joe a seven. All of them we released back into the water to fight again.
That very beautiful day the leaves were dripping with yesterdays rain. And all day Joe and I could see trillions of flies swarming the mighty Bighorn River. In fact there was so many of them Joe and I could not see each other!
As we fished I thought about my mother-in-law and her delicious trout paddies she used to cook me when my wife, Sharon got married back in 1973...
Enough of me.
I know this aint funny but Im bored right now and tired.
I just believe that Field and Stream magazine should either get more.........
well like the Utah BFT! The articles are just to general. A good fishing article should have exact information, and include temperatures, visibility, ect. But while they do include info like that in F & M magazine. They add all that "Shakespeare" crap to their articles. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Outdoor Life magazine, blek! Boring! Worse than F & M.
I'll stick with BFT. You can get more here at the Utah BFT for most species in our area. No need to buy a Field and Stream magazine.
And to cap this rant off I have gotten far far far far far more useful info here at BFT than anyplace. Whether it be for trout, using rapalas, catfish, ect, ect. The Utah BFT rocks.
But before the world wide web there were no blogs.Just fishing and local reports. But fishing magazines and yes even fishing videos did nothing to help me catch fish. Done!
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About Field and Stream magazine. I can recall lots of Field and Stream magazines articles since I was a teenager, they never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never taught me a thing about fishing! Nothing! Nada! Zilch!Total waste of money!
Sure I got—in a very gullible fashion— "inspired" and thought I was reading something "useful". Ha!
I can recall reading an article about trout fishing. It talked about just general information and avoiding the "fancy" flies and lures. Fine but a beginner needs confidence to fish for trout. I never got any till I went out and fished for trout myself. You never really learn till you do it you know?
Not to be a smart alec, but hey paying $5 when you can just ask your fishing buddies you know? Gets annoying.
I got most of my knowledge from observing and just plain experimentation. Thats right, just good 'ol fashioned fishing with a night crawler and seeing which method works, i.e reeling a worm upstream, drifting, reeling a jigger at fast speed like then slowing it down at Utah Lake for White Bass, ect, ect....
I learned alot about the basics of rainbow trout by fishing a now defunct irrigation ditch in Pleasant Grove. I learned some of the basics of brown trout at the Provo River, using very simple techniques. Nothing complicated. And no reason to spend money on the junk that F & S magazine has to offer.
I don't even like Field and Stream, why? I can read the In-Fisherman, yes you get pages of photos of lunkers that they release. But at least you get some ways to land catfish and other species. And even the In-Fisherman magazine could improve a bit. But I did read an interesting article about catfish drift-fishing which I learned to do at Willard, and I love it. Good going In-Fisherman magazine. No Shakespeare crap like F & M magaine, they got right to the point.
Field and Stream magazine articles bores me, period. By the time I went to visit my mother in Kingman Arizona my step dad had like half a dozen or so Field Stream magazines. When I read them I had had it.
Here is an example of the Shakespeare crap when you read the articles:
Joe and I made it to our cabin in Montana at approximately at 6 AM Saturday. It was a beautiful morning that spring, with birds chirping and gorgeous monarch butterflies flying amidst the mystical morning Montana sunrise. I was thrilled to be here. I took out all of my gear. I had my two fly rods and an extra spinning rod, just in case I needed use lures. I unloaded my tackle box to see how many flies I had to imitate the Damsel flies, then I set up a nice fold up wooden fly-tying table that my grandpa made for me when I was sixteen years old.
Then I had to take off my shoes and leave them next to the wood burning heater that the cabin had. That was because it was raining. But the rain itself was to stop by the next morning. Joe and I had nothing to worry about. Joe had ot take his shoes off too. And he helped me tie the necesarry flies for tommorows sacred fly fishing excursion.
I took my chewing tobacco and took a wad of chew and stuck it between my tooth and gum, and was well on my way to tying dry flies.
Joe did me a big favor and brought an extra pair of sunglasses for me to block the harmful Montana morning sun. And that morning we headed to the Bighorn River the bright Montana morning sun was glaring as bright as spotlight I had ever witnessed.
"Hurry!", exclaimed Joe. "Lets get to the fishing!"
Boy was I excited.
As I got off the airplane that extremely beautiful morning at the airport in Helena. Little did I know that at the Bighorn River there would be thousands upon thousands of three to ten pound brown trout rising to mating Damsel flies.
When Joe and I got to the Bighorn River we saw tens of thousands of hungry and aggressive brown trout rising.
I hurried and took the dry flies from my vest pocket and tried a #18 dry Damsel fly. Jow tied a white #18 Damsel fly, but I caught the very first fish, an ten pounder.
Then I caught another three pounder, then Joe a five, then me a six, then Joe a seven. All of them we released back into the water to fight again.
That very beautiful day the leaves were dripping with yesterdays rain. And all day Joe and I could see trillions of flies swarming the mighty Bighorn River. In fact there was so many of them Joe and I could not see each other!
As we fished I thought about my mother-in-law and her delicious trout paddies she used to cook me when my wife, Sharon got married back in 1973...
Enough of me.
I know this aint funny but Im bored right now and tired.
I just believe that Field and Stream magazine should either get more.........
well like the Utah BFT! The articles are just to general. A good fishing article should have exact information, and include temperatures, visibility, ect. But while they do include info like that in F & M magazine. They add all that "Shakespeare" crap to their articles. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Outdoor Life magazine, blek! Boring! Worse than F & M.
I'll stick with BFT. You can get more here at the Utah BFT for most species in our area. No need to buy a Field and Stream magazine.
And to cap this rant off I have gotten far far far far far more useful info here at BFT than anyplace. Whether it be for trout, using rapalas, catfish, ect, ect. The Utah BFT rocks.
But before the world wide web there were no blogs.Just fishing and local reports. But fishing magazines and yes even fishing videos did nothing to help me catch fish. Done!
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