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 Author Name: Medlar Press
Title: WATERLOG ANGLING MAGAZINE NO. 42
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: The Medlar Press & Waterlog
Seller ID: 1294286
Waterlog, since its launch in December 1996 has proved itself one of the finest angling magazines of all time. Published bi-monthly by the Medlar Press, & co-edited by Jon Ward-Allen & Chris Yates, the magazine features some of the best descriptive, humorous & incisive writing on angling. Beautifully produced, with superb photos & illus; 8x11 inches, 63 pgs. MAX DISCOUNT 25%.
'Waterlog has contributions from the best angling writers, including Chris Yates, Ken Cameron, Dexter Petley, John Bailey, Andrew Herd and Tom Fort. Waterlog has real international appeal, with contributions from around the world, including regular features from America. Waterlog is published bi-monthly
THIS ISSUE:
Interesting phenomenon, Big Brother. It was all over the telly and then suddenly it wasn't, but judging from the trail of detritus the series left in its wake, BB hasn't ever really gone away. The programme still has several web sites, a book, DVD, VHS tape and a CD of the music played while the nation sat square eyed and slack jawed in front of it. Even now, the series still makes news, with Channel 4 reporting the first Big Brother wedding and a reunion of the poor bastards who were involved in making it - personally we can't think of anything worse, short of rolling in the snow and then beating ourselves senseless with birch twigs without getting a soak in the hot tub first, but maybe the editorial team is getting past it.
Staggering though it may seem, Channel 4 had to appoint an agony uncle to cope with a flood of emails from viewers who had difficulty coping once the series had ended. The last letter he answered was from a lady who had told her husband she was on holiday so that she could spend more time watching the 'housemates', though that particular expression seems a little euphemistic, given the way the participants behaved towards each other. The deeply comforting reply included the immortal line, 'In some ways we're drawn to watch Big Brother because it reflects our own existence, so if you can aim to walk away with a clearer insight into your own life, it will only benefit your relationship.' Yeeeeeeeeeech.
When Big Brother was running, it and the series' various spin-offs filled our screens for nearly twenty hours a week, during which time the nation suspended all organised thought while it gawped mindlessly at a group of people doing virtually nothing.
So how is it, then, that if fishing is the biggest participation sport after footie, that it merited hardly any air time at all over the same period' Looking at the schedules - and you really do have to look at the schedules, page after page after page of them before you find a single item that is even vaguely connected with the hobby - you would gain the impression that the anglers really enjoy getting up at 6 am to listen to 'Fish on Five'; one of the few crumbs that drops from our master's table.
And yet, if you were at the Game Fair, trying to squeeze between the people thronging Fisherman's Row, it was impossible not to feel a wee bit cheated. There were all kinds of folk there, ranging from a strange bearded chap with a stuffed fox in a cage, through camo-clad carp catchers, to the Panama-wearing CLA smart set and the whole lot of them were fascinated by fishing. Queues formed outside the fly casting arena, patiently waiting a chance to try out the latest and greatest, the tackle dealers were doing a roaring trade, and the flea marketers must have been giving away free fivers, because the punters were eight deep outside their stalls. We don't know how many tens of thousands of feet must have passed the Waterlog stand, but our judgment is that Angling UK is alive and well.
So what about it, chaps' How about replacing just a few hours of the appallingly anodyne crap that passes for telly these days with some decently resourced fishing programmes' After all, even twenty hours of watching match anglers staring at motionless floats and chucking bread at passing ducks can't be worse than Big Brother. You never know, it might even catch on.
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