The Fisherman Mag

[beamie]

Can they make it any harder to read thru an article.....Reminds me of my schoolboy days when cruising thru a book that says turn to page 5m you get there turn to page 44, you get there, turn to 55 and on and on. I can't even find where one article starts but I found the ending....WTF.

Piss poor editing/layout IMO.

[Canalman]

Why would you attack their editing? Do you find grammatical errors in there... spelling...? As for the layout... you have to remember that they're a weekly mag so they have to put out 4 times what the monthlys do and do it in a quarter of the time. It sucks that you feel like it's sub-par but instead of attacking the work of the guys in the office (many of them members of this board), maybe you could make some constructive comments or suggestions as to what could make the magazine better.

Just a thought.
-Dave

[Clammer]

Have me become a contributing writer

[Joe]

They got one dude doing everything.....I'm surprised he has not been found hanging from the rafters....

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Clammer

Have me become a contributing writer

you'd be a damn good one ( with some editing of course )

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by Clammer

Have me become a contributing writer

You could write an article on Rubber...Tools of the trade.

[Raven]

or you could write an article on flubber
and the tools of the bluefish trade

[Clammer]

or you c@@@@ SMD

[Finaddict]

It has a lot to do with the advertising, trying to fit the ads in so that they do not compete with others whenever possible - where not talking about the classified ads in the report section that was switched to the middle of the book from the end about six to 10 years ago, but also the quarter, third and half page ads ... it all has to be layed out so it's as appealing as it possibly can be ... now if the reports section that supports the classified ads (meaning the text is wraped around the classifieds) has too many ads, they will also run the text into the report section, there in by the need for the "r" in front a page number.

This is the same problem that has been plaguing the newspaper industry for years, although the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 2 just did a revamp of the paper's layout and are trying not to have articles carry over.

printing, publishing and mailing magazines are expensive, so they do the best they can with what they have.

[beamie]

Originally Posted by Canalman

Why would you attack their editing? Do you find grammatical errors in there... spelling...? As for the layout... you have to remember that they're a weekly mag so they have to put out 4 times what the monthlys do and do it in a quarter of the time. It sucks that you feel like it's sub-par but instead of attacking the work of the guys in the office (many of them members of this board), maybe you could make some constructive comments or suggestions as to what could make the magazine better.

Just a thought.
-Dave

Don't get me wrong, I like the mag, I guess the "editing" word is not the correct term to use not being a newspaper type.....just the layout always seems to be poor. Multiple page numbers and pages with R etc etc. Like you said Dave, weekly and small staff, I guess.

As far as a constructive comment......It would be good if the layout was such that when an article started it ran on consecutive pages until it ended instead of hunting around for it. There seems to be too much of that in TFM. Maybe this is done purposefully to make us groom it more to see the advertising, who knows....

[Canalman]

Believe me I agree with the layout deal... flipping around... it's like a choose your own adventure book. I don't know what the reasoning is... just trying to defend my friend Zach over there

-Dave

[Nebe]

Zach i for one like the layout. i enjoy the way its broken up. if all the articles were in one section i would probably read the articles and throw it out without reading the whole edition.

[Flaptail]

Zach, your doing a good job in a tough environment and most would have flung in the towel by now. Keep the faith, no one wants to see the Fisherman go down the tubes.

Steve Shiraka

[BigFish]

I enjoy my Fisherman every week! Until I can hang paper better than Zach I will say nothing more...he does a fine job!

[Canalman]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Zach i for one like the layout. i enjoy the way its broken up. if all the articles were in one section i would probably read the articles and throw it out without reading the whole edition.

Suck up

Mommy Mommy look what I did

[RIROCKHOUND]

My 0.02..
growing up, for years the fisherman was the first read, flip to the back and read the reports in my fathers latest issue.
I still read them, but not as frequent. As Zach stated the layout is the layout for reasons... I personally feel some of the articles are rehashed, but since 1954 how many truly original ideas are out there!
Keep it up ZH!
and Eben...
you got some brown stuff on your nose man
Nobodies perfect.

[missing link]

I love the MAG I just wish the mail lady would get it to me on time and not let her hubby read it first and then the whole neighborhood , let him get his own subscription and F the rest of them
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