Carp Fishing In The UK

[poliphilo]

Do you know how many glossy magazines devoted to carp fishing are published in the UK?

The answer is at least six. I was in a queue at the post office this morning and I counted them.

They have titles like Carp Fishing Monthly and Total Carp and all have covers showing a grinning man holding an enormous fish. Perhaps it's the same fish. Perhaps they pass it around.

Name an interest or hobby- and it'll have a glassy magazine devoted to it. If its a popular thing- like genealogy or rock music or even tattoos- there'll be a whole raft of different magazines.

Who buys them all? How do magazines manage to flourish in an era when newspapers are closing? How many carp fishermen are there in Paddock Wood?

Comments

[raakone.livejournal.com]

Matrixmann said it all. You've got specialty magazines because, even with the web, finding what you want on some things can be hard. I've seen a magazine devoted to sheep farming. Magazines devoted to food. Also those on rail/train related subjects (and that has a bit of a divide, in the English speaking world, usually it will have, as its main focus, North America, or the UK (and to a lesser extent, Ireland and Europe), and on both sides of the ocean one can find those on both)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's just that there are so many of them. The Post Office in our village stocks hundreds.