Got mine in the shop last week Tim. Another brilliant R.Yare article by Mark Pollard who hasn’t actually fished a match there for weeks! It has been too easy for him taking money off the Cross Drove regulars 🙂

No

to be fair tim your not missing much there are 4 features that are not about carp the rest of the mag is all about stuffing as many carp as you can in your net same old same old every month. Its about time the mag had some features on canals,rivers and non commie lakes not everyone loves commercials but while alex is the editor thats all we are going to get

theres some ok articles in it but alex`s style isnt to my liking,the review of the M3 pole was it? couldve been written by a 6 year old.

at least he/they seem to have dropped the NUMBER OF HOOKLENGTHS TIED BY ALAN FOR WHITEACRES 2358 or NUMBER OF MAGGOTS FED BY STEVE 54347454 styley that has been in recent editions.

one thing i have noticed is that every bit of kit they review is brilliant,surely some of it must be shit! seems like theyre afraid to upset the tackle companies.

@bram wrote:

one thing i have noticed is that every bit of kit they review is brilliant,surely some of it must be shit! seems like theyre afraid to upset the tackle companies.

I suspect that they do receive a fair bit of rubbish to review but instead of knocking it in an article they just send it back with a suggestion that the company advertise it in the mag. Most of the stuff that is reviewed also has a whacking great ad for it in the mag somewhere.