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By Tom Bie
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Friday, 05 October 2007 21:16 |
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1) Because there's just something about a dude wearing camo, holding a bloody bear carcass. (Headline inside: "Do Goldilocks a Favor.") Sure, you might not ask him to take your SATs for you, but when your gutless little hippy car slides off the road in a snowstorm, guarantee this dude rolls up in an F350 and pulls your pansy ass out.
2) Because no newspaper or magazine does a better job of destroying the
image of flyfishing as an elitist sport. F&H News clearly does not
give a shit how you get your fish: "Mepps, Panther Martins, or
stripping Woolly Buggers are all working well in the lower river." And
they do it without even trying.
3) When you just want to know where the damn fish are, there's a map,
directions, and a quote by Al from Al's tackle shop (1-ALS-BIG-FISH),
"Well, Larry's out on the Lake right now, and if he ever comes back
in...") And for some reason, all the how-to, where-to fishing stuff
they have doesn't make my ass itch like it does when I see it
everywhere else. Maybe because it's delivered in such a folksy,
low-brow way. But whatever, it just seems to fit.
4) I'd be willing to bet that no other publication is responsible for
more anglers crossing over from bait or spin fishing to flyfishing than
F&H News. The ads make it crystal clear who the publishers feel
their readers are—Cabela's-shopping, treble-hook-toting,
jet-boat-owning, handgun-packing, Nitro-bait-using, trolling-motor
meatheads. Yet if you actually read the thing, almost every fishing
article is a flyfishing, not a baitfishing story. But there is not one
single flyfishing advertiser in most F&H News. (Gamakatsu is in
there, but the ad is for jig hooks and 2X trebles.)
5) And the best thing? Because no matter where you are fishing out
West, chances are good that you can roll late-night into some backwater
24-hour gas station, pick up that last nasty corn dog that's been
sitting under a heat lamp for the past six hours, and find F&H News
in the mag rack with an up-to-date (at least within the past couple
weeks), rundown of what's working on a nearby, below-the-radar river. Plus it doubles as a campfire starter.
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