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Angling Trade: Show Issue 2019

Contents Include:

  • The 2019 IFTD Show Guide
  • Vision for 2020
  • Women in Fly Fishing
  • The Denver Carp Scene
  • Pebble Update
  • Product Reviews… and More.
Angling Trade: Spring 2019

Contents Include:

  • Marketing Ground Game
  • Fishing Tasmania
  • Product Reviews
  • Uncle Ted’s Cutthroats
  • The Economics of Outdoors
  • a Few Harrumphs… and More.
Angling Trade: Summer 2018

Contents Include:

  • The Swag Patrol
  • Ambassador Game
  • Looking Back 10 Years
  • Women in Fly Fishing
  • New Product Skinny…
  • And more
Angling Trade: Spring 2018 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Podcasts
  • Navigating Digital Display Ads
  • New Rod on the Rack
  • Selling “Experience”
  • Facebook Marketing
  • Quit Counting… and More
Angling Trade: Summer 2017 Issue

Contents include:

  • Reaching More Customers
  • Catch-and Release Rethought
  • Making Hay at a Trade Show
  • AT at 10 Years
  • Gobs of Product Spiel… And More
Angling Trade: Spring 2017 Issue

Contents include:

  • Search Engines
  • Dressing up your Brand
  • The Trade show is Coming Home
  • Record Chasing
  • Trout Tips
  • Wine and Fly Fishing… And more
INSIDE THE SHOW 2016 ISSUE

Contents Include:

  • Simms and the Bass World
  • Loving and Hating Competitive Fly Fishing
  • Sage Launches the “X”
  • The State of the U.S. Fly Market
  • Follow-Ups on Magnuson-Stevens… And More.
Angling Trade: The Spring 2016 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Fly Fishing as a Cure for the “Stupissance”
  • The Best Fly Lines
  • Women in Fly Fishing
  • Filming Rules
  • Reputation Management
  • Public Lands Fight
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The Fall 2015 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Recruiting… does it even matter?
  • Dropping the participation trophies?
  • Cortland turns 100.
  • The Bahamas situation.
  • We need our public lands.
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The 2015 Show Issue

Contents Include:

  • Sage and RIO to Sell Direct
  • New Products for 2016
  • Confronting the Elephants in the Room
  • Fair Flies
  • Thinking Outside the Box
  • The State of the Trout
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The Spring 2015 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Eight Questions to Help You Know Your Customer Better
  • Cuba for Gringos
  • Social Media and the Fly Shop
  • The Impending Death of the Grip ‘n Grin
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The Winter 2014-2015 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Why Wild Fish Matter Most
  • What We Know About Retailers
  • What Retailers Need to Know About Customers
  • A Book for a Country
  • Urgency in Utah
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The Fall 2014 Issue

Contents Include:

  • AT 20: The Best New Products for 2015
  • Boutique Rods
  • Selling Montana
  • Carolina Boom
  • Making Better Fly-Fishing Videos.
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The 2014 Show Issue

Contents Include:

  • Mobile Devices and In-Store Sales
  • Non-Fly Impulse Buy Options
  • Figuring Out Carp
  • Creating a Nonprofit/Competitive Fly Fishing
  • Teachig Through Tenkara
  • Steelhead Waters in Danger
  • What’s Next?
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: The Spring 2014 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Jim Murphy’s Candor
  • Jungle Angling
  • War on Culverts
  • Creating a Nonprofit/Competitive Fly Fishing
  • Inland Oceans
  • Our Leg Up on Golf
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: December 2013 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Growing Smarter
  • Website 101
  • Film Season Arrives
  • TU Support Pays Dividends
  • Tailwaters Book
  • Guiding Smarter than the Indicator
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: September 2013 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Rod Warranties Revisited
  • What We Learn from Yoga Pants
  • Hot List of New Gear
  • The Evolution of Fly Product
  • Young Entrepreneurs
  • Predatory Angling
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: Summer 2013 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Leaving the Rat Race for the Fly Shop
  • The Industry Gets a Facelift
  • Scuba Business Lessons
  • Retro Chic
  • Knockoffs
  • Carp Book
  • Show Talk
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: April 2013 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Getting Smart About Point of Sale
  • The Adventures of Oliver White
  • Innovative Fundraising
  • The Things We Should Agree Upon
  • Great New Books
  • The Royal Treatment
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: December 2012 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Women and Fly Fishing
  • Politics for Anglers
  • Great Expeditions
  • The Access Battle
  • Bristol Bay Update
  • An American Manufacturing Success Story
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: August 2012 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Twenty Years After “The Movie”
  • Selling Flies
  • Cabela’s Teaches
  • Carp Tournaments
  • The Complete Fly Fishing Writer
  • Social Media Marketing
  • IFTD Schedule
  • Where to Eat in Reno
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: June 2012 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Effective Events for Shops
  • Flying Pig Rods
  • Building Guide Business
  • Media Evolution
  • Q&A with AFFTA’s new GM
  • Steelhead in the Balance
  • Arapaima in Guyana
  • and much more…
Angling Trade: March 2012 Issue

Contents Include:

  • All Fishing is Good Fishing
  • Simms Sells Direct
  • Conservation for Profit
  • An Eye on Access
  • The Client is Not Always Right
  • Industry Beefs (Served Rare)
  • Who’s Growing the Sport
  • and much more…
November 2011 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Winning New Products for 2012
  • Update Your Business Plan
  • Train Your Staff
  • A Profile of The Stonefly in Butte, Montana
  • Pro Guide Direct
  • Trends We Saw in 2011
  • and more…
August 2011 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Golf and Fly Fishing
  • IFTD Exhibitors and Floor Plan (Pg. 26)
  • Making a Great Media Trip
  • Loss Leaders
  • Schools Revisited
  • Discover Ireland
  • DVD Profits
  • and more…
June 2011 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Proprietary Products Heating Up Market
  • Burke on Hair and Hackle
  • Is Groupon Good for You?
  • Icon Closes its Doors
  • Undercover Fly Shop Guy
  • Costco and the Trust Factor
  • Travel, Tips, and More
March 2011 Issue

Contents Include:

  • 20 Reasons to Believe
  • The Bundle Business (Lines and Reels)
  • Santella on Books
  • Q&A with AFFTA’s Jim Klug
  • More on Pro Plans
  • Ditch the Bobber
December 2010 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Q&A with the American Sportfishing Association
  • Hot “Non-Fly” Buys
  • Kodiak Island
  • The Euro Perspective
  • What’s the Deal with Pro Deals
  • Killer Montana Guide Book
  • Bie’s Backcast
September 2010 Issue

Contents Include:

  • New Rod Technology
  • All About Margins
  • Legend Frank Moore
  • Reel People
  • More from Guides
  • Q&A with Andrew Bennett
  • Growing the Sport
June 2010 Issue

Contents Include:

  • 25 Hot Products
  • Selling Softgoods
  • The Right Shop
  • Fly Fishing in Schools
  • Start a Travel Program
  • Little Red Book of Fly Fishing
March 2010 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Trade Show Skinny
  • The Changing Media Landscape
  • Using Social Media for Sales Effect
  • “Dear Mr. Print Editor
  • Bahamas Travel
  • A Tribute to the Great Charlie Meyers
December 2009 Issue

Contents Include:

  • The Value of Vision
  • Slump Busting, Part II
  • Fly Fishing’s Cousin
  • Retailer Profile
  • The New Value Paradigm
  • Virginia Festival
September 2009 Issue

Contents Include:

  • 2009 Fly Fishing Retailer Show Guide
  • The Rest of Denver
  • Guides as Ambassadors
  • Oh Canada!
  • Leeson’s Latest
  • TU Wades In
June 2009 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Shops Rule Consumer Opinions
  • Hot Retailers in a Cold Market
  • Beyond Fly Shop 101
  • Mentors Matter
  • Hardy Aims High
  • Good Books
March 2009 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Replace Yourself
  • Am I Too Old to Teach Fly Casting?
  • My Favorite Professors
  • Wagner’s To 10 Teaching Tips
  • They Said It
December 2008 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Fish Free or Die
  • Private Vs. Public
  • Fishparks… Why Not?
  • Why Media Matters More Now than Ever
  • They Said It
  • Now is The Perfect Time to Take Action
September 2008 Issue

Contents Include:

  • The Rest of Denver, Redux
  • Tying into Sales
  • A good Company, Hatch Reels
  • Art in the Fly Shop, Part II
  • Six for the Salt
  • The Dream Shop
June 2008 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Monte Burke’s Letort Reflection
  • Art in Your Shop
  • How Retailers Earn Green by Being Green
  • Pine Beetles
  • Good News-Bad News on Whirling Disease
  • Who’s Walkin’ the Eco Walk
March 2008 Issue

Contents Include:

  • Bowhunting vs. Flyfishing
  • The Case for Imports
  • Filson Wades In
  • The Best of Both Worlds
  • America’s Fish
  • Great Lakes
  • Back to School Profits
  • True to the Red, White & Blue
December 2007 Issue

Contents Include:

  • The Video Boom
  • The TV Bust
  • All About the Internet
  • Grassroots Marketing
  • Work with the Press
  • Blogging
  • Good Websites
  • The Skinny on MSRP
September 2007 Issue

Contents Include:

  • The Monster Next Door
  • AFFTA Goes Large
  • The Catskill Artist
  • Fish N’ Chips
  • Teaching Your Way to Success
  • Competitive Spike