{"id":6210,"date":"2010-07-28T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2010\/07\/28\/the-fly-fishing-magazines-continue-to-increase-our-lunch-hour-is-made-whole-again\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:39:03","slug":"the-fly-fishing-magazines-continue-to-increase-our-lunch-hour-is-made-whole-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2010\/07\/28\/the-fly-fishing-magazines-continue-to-increase-our-lunch-hour-is-made-whole-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The fly fishing magazines continue to increase, our lunch hour is made whole again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreammagazineonline.com\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"upstream\" border=\"0\" alt=\"upstream\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/upstream.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"244\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong> Add <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygazines.com\/issue\/13340\"><strong>Upstream<\/strong><\/a><strong> to a crowded field<\/strong> of e-zines making their debut in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>I liken the ezine conundrum to the current political spectrum, where Republicans and Democrats try to distance each other from the opposition, the administration, and their own party.<\/p>\n<p>As each new magazine throws down their own unique brand, free of tired articles about indicator fishing, and espousing the \u201cjourney\u201d, the \u201cexperience\u201d, or \u201cwe\u2019re not your Dad\u2019s hobby\u201d \u2013 I find the distinction losing a bit of allure.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fly fishing that brought you to the dance, and I\u2019d always assumed you should leave with those that brought you \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Numerous straw polls and statistics suggest the influx of new blood has been on a steady wane \u2013 and us current practitioners are growing older, wiser, and accumulating skills. We\u2019re no longer the fresh faced novitiates who are struggling with wind knots and trying to makes sense of it all, and our impatience with the \u201csame old articles\u201d may stem from fluency with the technique \u2013 and having read six or eight already.<\/p>\n<p>The existing print media takes considerable heat from nearly everyone, much of it well deserved, but I wonder whether they are the root of our&#160; dissatisfaction, or merely we\u2019ve changed and are impatiently waiting for the literature to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Like you I read them all, yet have trouble verbalizing what I\u2019d like to see \u2013 what prose or topic would make one magazine head and shoulders above the others and engage me completely.<\/p>\n<p>The picture-based magazines ooze stunning photography and make me yearn to take better pictures, the \u201cRed Bull\u201d magazines make me wish I could chug an energy drink without making faces, and the \u201cjourney\u201d magazines get me all maudlin then jar me with an ad for the technical clothing needed to fish bacon rind.<\/p>\n<p>As fishing is such an individualistic exercise, what\u2019s lacking is liable to be quite different from one reader to the next, but I\u2019m still not seeing what I think I\u2019m looking for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I may be yearning for lost youth, where the mention of puce baboon bottom would send me in a frantic search to secure some, or that new knot that would fix all my monofilament ills, or new creek packed with giant voracious fish that I\u2019d ignored enroute to some place further.<\/p>\n<p>Older and wiser I recognize that fellow in the fog and half light would be the same fellow cursing me for low holing his pool, and the photographs are appreciated but skimmed quickly. The \u201cRed Bull\u201d crowd gives me the impression they discard their empties on the beach \u2013 while disappearing in a cloud of sand and hamburger wrappers. They\u2019re skimmed and put to rest as quickly. The \u201cjourney\u201d and \u201cfeelgood\u201d attempts all feel good, until the advertising intrudes \u2013 and part of my journey includes a \u201ctactical\u201d shooting head and the \u201cexperience\u201d of paying off a high priced venue or higher priced rod.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>We want to feel your experience through your unique <strong>professional<\/strong> approach. If you\u2019ve got a garden variety fly fishing story &#8211; we are not interested.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose that once the graphite rod crossed the thousand dollar barrier, we were forced out of our hobby to join other pastimes whose professionalism includes the tools to ply our craft, and also the uniform \u2013 the accoutrements of social station.<\/p>\n<p>Like golf being synonymous with double knits and headless hats \u2026 er \u2026 visors.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome each new entrant into my reading itinerary, there\u2019s plenty of lunch hours and ample time to digest each attentively, but I\u2019m still unsatisfied, struggling with what\u2019s missing and it may be nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Cigars, food, dancing, Patagonia, what\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>Upstream magazine, fly fishing e-zine, fly fishing literature, garden variety fly fishing story, social station, fly fishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Upstream to a crowded field of e-zines making their debut in 2010. I liken the ezine conundrum to the current political spectrum, where Republicans and Democrats try to distance each other from the opposition, the administration, and their own party. 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