The zine-ery

The e-zine has fully infiltrated the fly-fishing world. So many have come and gone already, it's kind of amazing (more have probably been born and died since you've started reading this). Some are online versions of print magazines, some are online only.  The barrier to entry is relatively low investment-wise (lots of work, to be clear), and since there's so much to see and discuss about fly fishing, it's no wonder. I don't believe too much money is changing hands at any point of the production, but that doesn't mean they're low quality. Some are excellent, some are über-hip, some lack a little something, and most are free to read. To illustrate the point, below is a list of all the fly-fishing ezines I could come up with (please comment with any I missed).

• Fortyone Degrees magazine
• Ten and Two magazine
• Scale
• The New Fly Fisher
• The Contemporary Sportsman
• Pool 32 Magazine
• Fly Fish America
• Florida Fly Fishing Magazine
• Fin Chasers Magazine
• Tail Fly Fishing Magazine
• So Fly magazine
• Montana Fly Fishing Magazine
• A Tight Loop
• Big R Fly Shop magazine
• Headshake Magazine
• This is Fly
• The Cedar Sweeper
• The Patagonia Journal
• Swing the Fly
• Dun
• Southern Trout
• Southern Culture on the Fly
• Flyfisher's Inc.
• Catch Magazine
• Kype magazine
• Flymage
• High Country Angler
• Revive
• Fly Fusion
• Angling Trade
• Trout Porn magazine
• On the Fly magazine
• The American Fly Fisher
• Fish and Game New Zealand
• Alberta Fishing Guide
• Fly Punk
• The Mission

And the departed:

• Beyond the Fly
• Sleeping in the Dirt
• Blood Knot magazine
• Fly Fishing Life
• Fish Can't Read

Will the boom slow down anytime soon? Has it already? Is there a market for them? Is this the future, or will print reign for the foreseeable future? We'll see...