Anyone else here seen.........

[Clammer]

I dropped that mas too ------------wat too much ads //

[King Neptune]

Lame. They're going downhill.
The big spoon thing was OK, but then I find out you can't buy the big spoons anywhere.

I signed up for a free subscription last year at the RISAA show. It never came, so I finally called them last August and complained. The next week I got my first issue (september). Then I get the latest issue the other day and there's a big "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE" thingy on the front.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone else had any similar problems with their "free" one year subscription, from last year's show.

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by King Neptune

Lame. They're going downhill.
The big spoon thing was OK, but then I find out you can't buy the big spoons anywhere.

I signed up for a free subscription last year at the RISAA show. It never came, so I finally called them last August and complained. The next week I got my first issue (september). Then I get the latest issue the other day and there's a big "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE" thingy on the front.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone else had any similar problems with their "free" one year subscription, from last year's show.

JB Tackle has them in thier catalog and had them for sale at the RISSA Show.

[Nebe]

Saltwater sportsman is the readers digest of fishing mags.. they try to be everything for everybody. theres some good stuff, but alot of fluff as well.

[Steve K]

I have gotten the free subscription for the last two years from the RISAA show. No problems here.

Originally Posted by King Neptune

Lame. They're going downhill.
The big spoon thing was OK, but then I find out you can't buy the big spoons anywhere.

I signed up for a free subscription last year at the RISAA show. It never came, so I finally called them last August and complained. The next week I got my first issue (september). Then I get the latest issue the other day and there's a big "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE" thingy on the front.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone else had any similar problems with their "free" one year subscription, from last year's show.

[piemma]

I signed up for the free subscription at the RISAA Show last year. I was already a subscriber so they told me it would get tacked on as an extra year. Yeah, right. Guess what? I have been getting 2 copies for a year. Now they want me to renew BOTH subscriptions. Guess what again??? Not renewing either one

[Vermonter]

Originally Posted by King Neptune

Lame. They're going downhill.
The big spoon thing was OK, but then I find out you can't buy the big spoons anywhere.

I signed up for a free subscription last year at the RISAA show. It never came, so I finally called them last August and complained. The next week I got my first issue (september). Then I get the latest issue the other day and there's a big "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE" thingy on the front.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone else had any similar problems with

their "free" one year subscription, from last year's show.

Mine has shown every month, though I can't say its the mag for a sand fisherman. It was nice that they added the monthly shore segment, does seem like the new editor has helped a bit tho its still mostly for the boat crowd.

[Joe]

The best way to shape a magazine's content and direction is to contribute.

[NIB]

Originally Posted by Joe

The best way to shape a magazine's content and direction is to contribute.

Thats why this format of media a much better source of entertaintment an information.For me at least.We shape the content.An guys like Joe provide the cuttinig edge info.

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by Joe

The best way to shape a magazine's content and direction is to contribute.

I have been asked. Have some problems with some things I have seen in the past year and my heart lies with other projects. To get that magazine out of the hands of Time/Warner, which will never happen, is what is needed. They are understaffed, over-stressed and the pool of experience in the field of surfcasting is limited in that would they recognize the value of most of what interests us here?

Corporate sits in the fighting chair while the Editor drives the boat in the direction they want. Bottom line is the only passion that keeps the office open in the glass tower no matter how hard DDB tries the mahogany desk and cigar guys upstairs rule the roost. Striped Bass and surf fishing are sentimental old memories that are given a small percentage of type space for that reason. Three pages of girls in bikini elf suits with a horny Santa at xmas may be eye candy but there are plenty of magazines that you can get that from, SWS just didn't seem the place it should have been in.

[BigFish]

I am going to let my subscription lapse.....barely enough good reading in there to last me one trip to the head for a good release!

[afterhours]

i'm done with them- no substance, just ads. see ya......