Thread: Current Fishing Magazines

I worked in Saudi from 1980 through January 2001. While you could buy magazines there they were all censored…..even fishing magazines. They would tear pages out of them that they found offensive…..which could be anything. The company I worked for had a US mailing address we sent all our mail to. Regular letter mail was shipped to Saudi everyday. But the bulk mail…as we called it…..was sent once a month. And there would be huge amounts of magazines….catalogs….come in each month. I subscribed to every well know, and some not so well known magazines from those times….I got them all. Should have seen the activity at the mail room the day the magazines would come in. Today I no longer subscribe to any…seems the ones I really liked are no longer in print or they are just not the same type of content. Of course a lot of the good writers have since passed.

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Hard to believe they would censor a fishing magazine. Makes one thankful of the freedoms we enjoy here.

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Hard to believe they would censor a fishing magazine. Makes one thankful of the freedoms we enjoy here.

Man they censor everything. Makes me thankful for this country. If a bottle of marinade sold in a supermarket had the word pork on the label it would be blacked out with a marker. I fished the Red Sea and Persian Gulf…one or the other almost everyday depending which location I was at in the country. Would buy my fishing gear when I was home on vacation and take it back with me. I once took back a 15 foot collapsible surf rod hand carry on the plane. Took me 5 hours to clear Saudi customs with it…they thought it was a high powered radio antenna and I was an agent of the CIA. For those of us who worked there incidents like that were never ending.

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Marking out the word pork and the label certainly didn't remove the pork from the product. I did have to give it to them. When you came to their country they expected you honor there culture. They come here and bring their culture and and you are expected to embrace then culture.

Man then were the days. Miss getting an issue of field and stream or outdoor life back when I was a kid in the 80’s.

Bad enough they are all stuffed with ads, even when I do pick up a magazine and find something I might want to read, the writer sounds like he works for company's as an advertising agent and doesn't do any good story's just more bs ads. been a while since I've bought a fishing or hunting magazine, no good story teller's anymore!

Originally Posted by Don Fischer

Bad enough they are all stuffed with ads, even when I do pick up a magazine and find something I might want to read, the writer sounds like he works for company's as an advertising agent and doesn't do any good story's just more bs ads. been a while since I've bought a fishing or hunting magazine, no good story teller's anymore!

Isn't that the truth

Originally Posted by Don Fischer

Bad enough they are all stuffed with ads, even when I do pick up a magazine and find something I might want to read, the writer sounds like he works for company's as an advertising agent and doesn't do any good story's just more bs ads. been a while since I've bought a fishing or hunting magazine, no good story teller's anymore!

I think that does pretty much sum it up. The old story tellers sure would give more content as to what they were doing and photos and descriptions of places you would love to go to.
Bob