After 30+ years of writing a weekly outdoor/fishing column for the (Danbury, CT) News-Times, I received a lot of mail and e-mail wondering if there was a new outlet for my ramblings on fish and fishing in the months following the paper’s decision to do away with my column. The end result is this blog.
With freedom to write what I want instead of having to appease editors who are clueless regarding the outdoors and who are afraid of opinions that may not be in harmony with the paper’s official editorial stance, this should prove to be more fun, if less profitable.
Then again, the sons-of-b powers-that-be at the News-Times didn’t bother to tell me that they were dropping the column, they just stopped paying me for it. So the profitability of that endeavor kind of sucked at the end, too.