Fieldsports magazine... for game shooting & fishing field sports enthusiasts the essential quarterly magazine. Fans of field sports such as shooting and fishing will love it. Field sports for all.
Leading field sports artists, known for shooting and fishing pictures, featuring shooting and fishing scenes, are featured. Along with the best shoots and fishings and the great sporting estates where field sports abound.
Field sports fans love eating the fruits of shooting and fishing adventures, so game cookery is big in Fieldsports magazine. And Fieldsports also features top restaurants which offer pheasants and salmon in their menus.
Lots of fishing too. Salmon, trout and sea-trout - fishing all around the UK will appeal to field sports enthusiasts. Fieldsports magazine is for them too. A very high percentage of game shooters also fish in the summer.
Not forgetting field sports, both shooting and fishing, around the world. Partridge shooting in Spain, pheasants in Hungary, elephants in Tanzania and game bird shooting in Tanzania. Again Fieldsports magazine has it all.
Shooting instruction with invaluable shooting tips, and experts on new and old guns. A full guide to shotguns is included. Side-by-side-shotguns and over-under shotguns. Fieldsports looks at all the recommended makers.
Wild pheasants and partridges always appeal to field sports enthusiasts. Fieldsports magazine has shoots that have grown from practically nothing.
In other words every field sports enthusiast will love Fieldsports magazine. Fieldsports is a must.
Fieldsports magazine is the essential quarterly title for all who enjoy game shooting and fishing.
Features include field sport grouse shooting, partridge shooting, pheasant shooting and shoot conservation, It is an essential read for shooting enthusiasts, with much more editorial than any other shooting magazine.
Leading sporting artists who focus on game species such as woodcock and snipe are also featured. There are articles on the best shoots around the country and also the great sporting estates.
Game cookery is also a key element in Fieldsports, along with restaurants serving game dishes.
For the fisherman there are authoritative articles on salmon, trout and sea-trout, with fishing in all parts of the UK and overseas. A very high percentage of game shots enjoy to fish in he summer and Fieldsports is for them.
Not forgetting sport abroad in our fist issue there is partridge shooting in Spain, pheasants in Hungary, elephants in Tanzania, and game birds in Zululand.
Leading authorities talk about shooting instruction with invaluable shooting tips, and there are experts on new and old guns. The new issue has a comprehensive guide to buying an over-under gun. Many side-by-side shotgun users are now thinking about the over-under 12 bore and 20 bore, and the Fieldsports guide looks at all the recommended gunmakers.
Developing a shoot for wild pheasants and partridges is another key subject area with two stories of partridge shoots that have been established from virtually nothing.
In other words, a big, entertaining and informative read for the shooting and fishing sportsman. Fieldsports is a must.
Over the rainbow in British Columbia
Matt Harris' dogged pursuit of BC steelhead, powerful and fresh from the Pacific, looked destined to end in disappointment - until the final day of his trip. This excerpt, from the full article which appeared in Fieldsports' Winter 2009/10 issue, describes his epic struggle on the Lower Dean river.
The next day, as I fished down the Cut-bank again, I met a wild-eyed young fanatic who had obviously fallen hook, line and sinker for the Dean. "We come here every year," he said through a perpetual, high-on-life grin, "but we've never seen it like this - you're normally into plenty of fish all week long and they fight like nothing else." "Will you come back next year?" I asked, and without pausing, he shot back, "Oh, yeah, I'm a 'lifer'."
I watched him wander a long way upstream and start to put out a beautiful long line, and I wondered, a little smugly, whether perhaps west-coast steelhead fishermen had just never caught a red-hot Russian Atlantic salmon or a big, fresh Rio Grande sea-trout. Maybe they just needed to get out more.
Then it happened.
My fly stopped in mid-stream, I lifted my rod and all hell let loose. A big gleaming hen leapt into an insane cartwheel, crashed into the water and turned into a wild silver flying machine, ripping off downstream in a devastating, knuckle-crunching run, punctuated by relentless sky-rocketing leaps that gave the impression of the fish not so much swimming as bouncing down the river.
The huge Tibor Gulfstream, a reel designed to deal with big saltwater brutes like sailfish, trevally and tarpon, fizzed furiously as backing seemed to melt off of its huge spool at an impossible rate and suddenly I was over a hundred yards away from the fish. The steelhead kited towards my bank and suddenly everything was gut-wrenchingly solid, as the leader jammed under one of the huge rocks that litter the river-bed. An enormous savage thrash and the fish was gone. Shaken, I reeled back the endless yards of backing and finally saw the hopelessly frayed leader glinting in the sunshine.
"Now that" I thought, as I sat down on one of the colossal Dean River boulders, humbled and exhausted, "is what all the fuss is about."
Matt's full article appeared in the Winter 2009/10 issue of Fieldsports magazine. Back issues of Fieldsports Magazine are available from our shop.