I
buy FF&FT as I like the way the magazine is put together, a lot of useful information in
almost every issue and there's always the tackle review section which (if I'm honest) I always read first, followed by Northern Climes. In my view, the best balanced (in that all areas of fly fishing get equal coverage) fly fishing magazine currently on the UK market bar none
Courtesy of a certain column, I get T&S for
free. Now IMHO T&S has come a long way in the last few years, a far better balance of articles now than there has been for some time. Somehow though, it always leaves me a little cold. Not as 'personal' as FF&FT 'feels' to me, can't quite put my finger on why that should be.
TF - I rarely buy this. Although again I'd say it's an improved magazine, there is a degree of bias towards the English reservoirs. Not that surprising really, as TF can trace its routes to the boom/expansion of reservoir trout fishing. The days of articles by Walker, Shrive and Church were the halcyon days for TF and still well worth a read.
Total Flyfisher - moving swiftly on........ ok ok. It was the bits on the 'thingamabobber' that did it for me, I mean
come on 
.... we've covered this topic before
http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1521.0 All of that aside, there is the occasional snippet or interesting piece in there. I buy the occasional copy.
So where does that leave us
My view is the magazines are nearly always a useful resource, but forums such as this one give you a better local guide to what's going on, what works (and what doesn't), advice and general good humoured banter
Why go anywhere else
Hamish
