With 2025 right around the corner I’m giving thought to how to make Dispatches better and I could use your help.
I’ve put together a reader survey and I’d really appreciate it if you would take the time to give me your responses. Shouldn’t take more than a few minutes.
I can’t offer some whoop de do incentive, but if I get some especially helpful responses I’ll probably reach out and offer something. You’ll also see I ask about paid subscriptions. I’m still hesitant to do it and I’ll take the survey results into consideration. If you take the survey I’ll give you at least a free month or some other discount if I pull the trigger and set up paid subscriptions in the future.
Many thanks in advance for taking a few minutes to let me know what you think. I want to make Dispatches worth your time to read. Your help will improve the chances I do that.
If you forgot to hit the Start the Survey button above, here’s another chance.
Thanks!
My response to your survey: Keep doing what you're doing, but more often. Publish more fishing pictures, of streams and trout, get the rod tip in there, make the line visible off the tip into the stream and across. Try to show what it's like to *do* it in pictures, and in words. More descriptions of what's going on in a stream, where trout hide out, where they have breakfast, lunch and dinner. More of why you're drawn to streams...for me, it's because they are ever changing and seemingly never ending, and every time you visit one you've been before, it has changed in ways subtle and profound. Also, tell us a little more about your off-stream life...do you cook? What shows do you enjoy watching on TV? What are your friends like? Put a few of them in the column. Quote them, treat us to their funny lines. I know there are some. There has to be humor in an endeavor by which you lose so much more often than you win -- I'm talking about all those casts with no bite until finally there is one. It's a little like gambling, isn't it? Or hitting in baseball? Where else is a .300 average such a huge success? What would be a good "average" in fishing? -- Lucian Truscott