Fish & Tips magazine closes after one issue…

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- 30/03/2011 at 12:21 pm #45600
  TF_geepster
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  The publishers of Fish & Tips have announced through their Facebook page that they are closing after one issue due to lack of support from advertisers…
  
  This is their statement:
  Fish ‘n’ Tips Magazine
  Despite the good response Fishâ€˜nâ€™Tips Magazine received at The Big One Show, online and via copy sales, the second issue has been cancelled.
  Fishermen liked our fresh approach, however, as we struggled to get support from advertisers, which is half of the revenue stream for a magazine, we were unable to continue. Many thanks to those …who did support us. Subscribers – your refund will be posted shortly.
- 30/03/2011 at 12:38 pm #136458
  TF_JohnH
  Clearly their business plans were not thought through. How they could launch and only produce one issue seems very odd.
  Looking at the cover picture it looks to me like they were dumbing down like the red top national papers.
  I do fear for publishers as the written word is being increasingly replaced with the electronic media. News papers very rarely are up to date with the real news so have to give away free DVDs etc to survive, a very slippery slope IMO.
- 30/03/2011 at 5:12 pm #136486
  TF_Cutnut
  Hours after carpcruncher tagged he liked this on facebook, I now read this.~think
  
  Surely a coincidence??
  
  I’d heard rumours before Christmas that a lads mag type fishing mag was being done, and I wondered then if tackle traders would want to advertise in it.
  
  Did it have a page of 0898 numbers? Bivvi Babes 4U 2 Glug!
- 30/03/2011 at 5:20 pm #136490
  TF_andy cranes mate
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  Maybe the large publishing house that does most of the other mag’s threatened to pull the plug on the advertisers if they supported it?
- 30/03/2011 at 5:29 pm #136492
  TF_Gavin
  @andy cranes mate wrote:
  
  Maybe the large publishing house that does most of the other mag’s threatened to pull the plug on the advertisers if they supported it?
  
  Probably!
- 30/03/2011 at 6:01 pm #136497
  TF_baitchef
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  I think people need to get over the preconceived image that we as anglers are all fat, beer swigging, dope smoking, pie eating, perverted sun readers……..
  
  when we all know its the dail sport.
- 30/03/2011 at 6:03 pm #136499
  Average-Al
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  Fish and tits may have been a better idea!
- 30/03/2011 at 6:12 pm #136501
  TF_andy cranes mate
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  or fish nets?
- 02/04/2011 at 6:40 am #136736
  TF_paulD
  IMO the angling press is just one big advertising business nowdays and just there to sell stuff to mugs like us. Same as our national papers and politics. But most still seem to believe what they read.
  Would be nice to see a independent mag not scared of telling truth and written by anglers. Guess forums like this is as close as well get.
- 02/04/2011 at 7:39 am #136738
  Daddy B
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  Leaving aside the tacky look of the magazine (which as others have said is a major flaw), trying to cater for coarse, sea and game angling within one magazine and doing justice to none of them was never going to be a formula that would appeal to me. I guess most anglers would feel the same.
- 02/04/2011 at 7:52 am #136739
  TF_Cutnut
  @paulD wrote:
  
  IMO the angling press is just one big advertising business nowdays and just there to sell stuff to mugs like us. Same as our national papers and politics. But most still seem to believe what they read.
  Would be nice to see a independent mag not scared of telling truth and written by anglers. Guess forums like this is as close as well get.
  
  Even on forums like this there is a level of censorship that guards it’s revenue stream and barks when it’s lead is yanked.
- 02/04/2011 at 11:07 am #136750
  TF_biggs
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  Is that young lady on the cover now unemployed then?
  
  Only we need a new au pair.
- 02/04/2011 at 5:20 pm #136772
  TF_andy cranes mate
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  @paulD wrote:
  
  IMO the angling press is just one big advertising business nowdays and just there to sell stuff to mugs like us. Same as our national papers and politics. But most still seem to believe what they read.
  Would be nice to see a independent mag not scared of telling truth and written by anglers. Guess forums like this is as close as well get.
  
  Well you say that but I’ve seen threads pulled that have slagged off certain manufactures..
- 02/04/2011 at 7:44 pm #136786
  TF_carpcruncher
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  @Cutnut wrote:
  
  Hours after carpcruncher tagged he liked this on facebook, I now read this.~think
  
  Surely a coincidence??
  
  I’d heard rumours before Christmas that a lads mag type fishing mag was being done, and I wondered then if tackle traders would want to advertise in it.
  
  Did it have a page of 0898 numbers? Bivvi Babes 4U 2 Glug!
  
  NOB~clap
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