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| read the article entitled "The Blade Package/ Vision & Vibration" in the July 2014 issue of In-Fisherman magazine -- very interesting -- jim |
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Location: Detroit River | It seems the more people that I meet that have written articles for In-Fisherman, MH etc. the more I realize how full of crap many of these articles are. |
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Location: MN | In Fisherman has been that way for a long time - cutting edge science baloney. MH does a bit better job in my opinion, but it is interesting how one guy will write one thing and another will write basically the opposite. Shallow vs deep, fast vs slow, big vs small, the list goes on. Just confirms there are no hard and fast rules, no right or wrong, and all systems, days, and weather patterns can produce different results. |
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| As time goes on, the articles in most of these magazines get either repetitive (another article on low-light prime time?), more more ridiculous, or more self-serving (another "promote my new lure article"). Let's face it--it must be tough coming up with a bunch of "new" articles about musky fishing every edition. I have thought for a while that outside of a few significant changes every year or so, what needs to be said has already been said and is out there somewhere. But you gotta keep selling magazines, so you gotta keep coming up with more stuff. |
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Location: New Hope MN | I'm still waiting for the seasonal behavior patterns of cisco... Doubt anyone else would buy that. |
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Location: MN | I think we'd all be amazed or disappointed to learn what many of the fishing shows did and/or do to get footage, including...well I'll let them remain nameless. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Ever notice the MH articles plug the products of a new advertiser. The ad can be found in the next 4 pages. Haven't bought In-Fisherman for years multi species and I only fish muskies unless I'm stranded somewhere there are no muskies. |
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| I finally broke my fishing mag addiction a few years ago. I had it bad.
It is mostly BS, shameless self or product promo...
Now I go on this site too much:)
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| I have to say I was pretty disapointed with the article...I'm sure Mr Windels is a great angler and great guy but to tout his blades and ignore the success and impact of the double 10 combo's that Musky Mayhem came out with along with the other variations that followed is absurd...it flat out changed muskie fishing forever. Add to that the comentary that thin blades pull harder than heavy/thick ones...thin blades FLEX and that reduces the profile in the water reducing resistance. Give me a bait with worn down soft thin blades and that bait will burn WAY easier than any new fresh blades period.
To add to the converstion about content in magazines....(in my case columns in MH) I do think one of the true challenges is to come up with a balance of fresh and cutting edge type of content along with some basics for the new reader of angler just starting on muskies. The past 10 years have been ripe with innovations and revelations in gear and tactics, that seems to have slowed a bit BUT new things are always cropping up...even if they are not truely "new" ..Jigging for example is hot right now and there is a lot of innovation happening there so that aspect is "new" while the basic tactic has been going on for years. Somewhere around the bend is still the next truely BIG NEW THING " that will really advance and change the way we fish for muskies. Someone just has to figure out what it is.
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| Propster - 6/17/2014 9:23 AM
In Fisherman has been that way for a long time - cutting edge science baloney. MH does a bit better job in my opinion, but it is interesting how one guy will write one thing and another will write basically the opposite. Shallow vs deep, fast vs slow, big vs small, the list goes on. Just confirms there are no hard and fast rules, no right or wrong, and all systems, days, and weather patterns can produce different results.
Hit it on the nose. |
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| horsehunter - 6/17/2014 5:28 PM
Ever notice the MH articles plug the products of a new advertiser. The ad can be found in the next 4 pages.
Really? As the guy who designs Musky Hunter's pages (and I've done so for almost 20 years), I assure you we have no such policy, nor can an advertiser buy favorable editorial.
Articles are assigned to writers 4-6 months in advance and their deadline is a month before we begin layout. The ad deadline is two weeks before we begin layout. You can ask anyone who has ever written for MHM if they have been asked to revise an article to accommodate an advertiser, or if their article was edited by me to include an advertiser, and their answer will be no.
Re: coming up with fresh article ideas, this is a concern for any magazine. Someone who has subscribed for several years and is an accomplished fisherman will have a different opinion about an article than a new subscriber who bought the magazine to learn how to musky fish. Somehow we need to serve both. This is why we tell everyone who contacts us about writing that we are always looking for writers with fresh ideas. We don't care who you are -- if you have a great pattern and want to write about it, we want it.
Steve Heiting
Managing Editor, Musky Hunter Magazine |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Steve I have every issue since the first and will continue to subscribe. So after that many years a certain amount of rehash is unavoidable and there are only so many ways to use hair and wood. This is fishing for a stinky bag of skin bones and teeth not rocket science. When I started fishing these things there was very little information the odd article in multi species publications so when Joe started a magazine devoted solely devoted to muskies it was very welcome. That being said the articles and adds still jump out at me, but I understand that's business and money comes from advertisers not subscribers.
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| horsehunter - 6/18/2014 11:52 AM
Steve I have every issue since the first and will continue to subscribe. So after that many years a certain amount of rehash is unavoidable and there are only so many ways to use hair and wood. This is fishing for a stinky bag of skin bones and teeth not rocket science. When I started fishing these things there was very little information the odd article in multi species publications so when Joe started a magazine devoted solely devoted to muskies it was very welcome. That being said the articles and adds still jump out at me, but I understand that's business and money comes from advertisers not subscribers.
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