Spey Magazine??

[Panhandle]

Is there such a thing published in the US? If not, there's a niche to be filled.

[Red Shed]

There is none that I'm aware of. I wish there were. As to that niche, why don't you fill it. I'll stock them.

[Nooksack Mac]

I assume you're familiar with the Spey Pages forum. The only way it falls short of a print magazine is that you can't hold glossy paper in your hand. But as far as information content is concerned, it vastly exceeds any possible print medium for volume, breadth and depth of information, and it's updated daily. If you go into the Archives with their search function, you'll find everything that's been said or thought about the wonderful world of spey for the last decade and more. Oh, and it's free.

[fredaevans]

Exactly; right on NM!:thumb:
Fred

[Kevin Giusti]

You are correct NM. It is free. But I will also add if you become a member for a very nominal fee you will have access to the members area which then opens up tons of videos and instruction of different casts and so on and so on...... There is no doubt a magazine would be great but the speypages would be hard to beat. Kevin

[Panhandle]

I'm familiar with Speypages. And yes it's a great resource. I just though it odd, with how popular two-handers are now, some one would have cornered the market.

[bhudda]

dont tell amato:)

[doublespey]

Spey mag? Smells more like an oversized Tom Pero publication to me. :)

[Hal Eckert]

Nothing like holding and studying at your leisure a nice fly fishing magazine and there are no spey ones.

My eyes are tired of reading all of these internet sites, one reason I don't subscribe to the spey pages detail content, last thing I want to do is read that stuff online.:

Just my 2 cents

:beer2:

BG

[Les Johnson]

It may be that two-hand rods and fishing simply does not have enough people to support a (print media) magazine. Fly fishing is a small segment of the fishing market and Spey fishing is a small part of fly fishing market. Speypages can provide more information by far than a quarterly Spey magazine, if the Spey devotees would indeed support a quarterly publication (for instance). About 35-40% of the pages of a magazine have to be advertising if the magazine is going to make money or even pay its own way. With the scramble among advertising sales folks to rope in the limited dollars available to support existing fly-fishing print media, adding a Spey magazine would be a tough go.
Good fishing,
Les Johnson

[Sloan Craven]

A spey mag would be great. I think while Les' points of advertisements are of issue, most every spey caster uses one handed rods as well as the rest of the equipment. Additionally, it could be printed by an already established publisher of flyfishing mags. I for one would love a spey mag.

[Hal Eckert]

I agree with Les it would be a very tough go financially, probably less than a 1000 subscribers world wide if successful. My eyes can't take reading these web sites for hours on end when I have to do it for work 50 hours a week. Doing it on my pleasure time to read fly fishing info is just too much. Rather read a nice large print book or magazine myself.

:)

BG