I have 3 or 4 posts sitting around in various stages of completion. Normally I sit down and hack one out in an hour or two. It’s rare that I start one, then come back. I tend not to go back.
I’ve got this bug up my butt about the writing I do. I’m a bass angler on mid sized rivers and small streams. I use light spinning gear and light/small lures. If you read my stuff, it’s no different than what you read in any of the fly fishing rags. Only I can’t submit any of it to them because I’m a bass angler on mid sized rivers, blah, blah, blah.
What’s bugging me is where does that leave how I write?
The majority of bass anglers can’t stand the way I write. Not enough pet names for bass and agonizingly painful descriptions on how to fish spinner and crank baits.
I need to find a Gray’s Sporting Journal that doesn’t care what kind of gear you use to fish with.
Is there one?
Mike
30 Mar 2011So submit them anyway. If you wish, take a little creative license and substitute fly gear into your spinning tackle comments. But I’m sure there’s journals that take a more wider ranging view on our sport. Just can’t think on any at the moment.
Ken G
30 Mar 2011A friend suggested the same thing Mike. Something about doing that makes me uncomfortable. I blame my fathers righteousness.
Now and then I’ll see articles in more traditional fly and bass mags, but it’s like they’re paying lip service. I don’t see how finesse fishing for smallies on rivers and creeks is any different from fly fishing. I do know if I used a fly rod where I fish, I couldn’t cast to half the fish I catch. Would never work.
I’ll find or figure out something.