Subsurface - Brave New World

This entry was posted on 17th December, 2013

Subsurface -  Brave New World

The Manifesto

Subsurface is a 100% independent, homegrown annual publication that looks deeper into the culture, history and future of the big carp scene, both at home here in the UK and overseas. The main aim and the manifesto is to challenge the way carp angling is documented and stimulate a new way of thinking about how our pursuit is represented by challenging the status quo head on and presenting some alternative angles.

From interviews with the old school, as well as the new school, to lads quietly doing their thing in the underground scene, to photographic galleries documenting nothing but the beauty of the environments we are lucky enough to find ourselves in, Subsurface exists to recognize and uphold the spirit that made us all pick up a rod in the first place, shaking up the sanitization that has developed in what is a fundamentally dirty pursuit and getting people thinking beyond the mindless step-by-steps; to hopefully encourage and inspire people to consider what the spirit of angling actually is.





Through a carefully handpicked selection of writers, photographers and anglers they have come together as a collective by returning to the DIY roots of carp fishing by creating a publication themselves; one that embraces the past, as well as the future and brings back some heart and soul, some appreciation for the environment and nature, and is filled to the brim with beautiful images and carefully penned words and passionate views; written, spoken and taken by the lads that live and breathe it, not the pen pushers and office chair critics.

Compiled with no agenda, no ulterior motives and unbiased and uncensored, Subsurface is a completely independent publication, and aims to deliver the uncompromised vision of carp fishing that we wholeheartedly believe it deserves. It is a brave new world. It’s time to embrace something new.

The Description

Subsurface is on course to set new precedents in how carp angling is documented and portrayed with a brand new attitude and set of values; proudly independent and focussed entirely on the highest quality editorial content, design and photography.





Material supplied by Gareth Fareham, Terry Hearn, Terry Dempsey, Terry Pethybridge, Geoff Bowers, Scott Karabowicz and many many more.

There are some familiar faces, and some you will not recognise, so the material for Issue 1 is as diverse as a beautifully penned Thames story about the build up to the '16th' by Terry Hearn, through to a piece about avoiding the authorities by underground angler and prolific world renowned street artist, Hadley Ever. Worlds apart. Issue 1 hopes to provide little of what you might expect, and much of what you don't... There are a few threads and links that evolved and developed throughout the production of this debutant issue, and far from being a script we ran with and followed to conclusion, rather we let it 'build itself' in many ways.





The major interviews with Terry Dempsey, Terry Pethybridge and Geoff Bowers are all intrinsically linked, through the early fishmeal days and Darenth and Yateley scenes, but each discusses the times with much different perspectives and viewpoints, Terry Dempsey's being an unapologetically 'magical' experience, and we dig much deeper than anyone else has into the psyche of one of the most captivating and interesting anglers out there. Pethybridge's story is a working mans reality of laying bricks 5 days a week and rolling 360 eggs worth of fishmeal in his kitchen and Geoff's story is one we should all know, as in many ways it is the story we are all now part of; the history of the modern day fishmeal. Gritty old slide photos, wooly jumpers and characterful mirrors abound....

The Spec

- 1st Edition - Published: 22/11/2013 - Publisher: M Press (Media) Ltd - Format: Paperback - Page count: 368p - ISBN: 9780957255982

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