Dave’s Fishing Tackle

Throughout the six sessions French anglers were dominant, and in the final individual placings they filled three of the top ten. In the end, the local knowledge of the Welsh team just edged Australia out of the silver spot, but it sure was a close thing. Italy finished fourth, Norway a creditable fifth and the…

I was in two minds whether to venture back as I had caught all the bigger carp and as they say, you can never go back. However the pull was too much and the car, by autopilot, found itself back in the car park. The water had been subject to extreme flooding for the whole…

In one way I am very pleased that it is one less lad left on the street corners; bored and directionless but I do have this selfish nemesis within me crying out, pleading that I’ve tied enough hooks for others and answered enough questions already to put adequate numbers on the slippery slope of fishing…

Before I unloaded my gear from the car I had a look in the catch book to see what had been caught during the weekend. Not a lot really but considering the hot weather that was not too surprising, just a few stock fish to low doubles. Though I knew a mate Ian had lost…

Wherever salmon fly-fishing is practised throughout the world there are constant reminders of its birth and development in Scotland. Many traditional patterns of salmon flies were developed on the banks of Scotland’s famous rivers – flies like ‘Dunkeld’ (named after the small county town in Perthshire on the banks of the mighty River Tay and…

Articles by Alan Tomkins Alan Tomkins He’s been fishing longer than he cares to admit and writing about it since the mid-seventies, initially for Angling magazine. After the demise of Angling, Alan wrote for the various iterations of Coarse Fishing, and for several years was a regular contributor to Carp World magazine. Fishes, or has…