Exeter Angling Centre

A suspect case of foot and mouth disease has been found near to Chew Valley Lake and thus it cannot open on March 22nd as planned. I guess that we were all expecting this would happen – I really do think that with all the possible bad press that there could be, we should be…

Looking at the finished float many anglers confuse it with the “drift beater” but a closer look will reveal that it is entirely a different float. It is first and foremost a reversed balsa wood waggler. If you cut of the sight tip, you are left with a perfect reversed taper balsa waggler.The sight tip…

brill [Species Menu] [brill articles] Latin name: Scophthalmus rhombus Record weight: One of the smaller species of flatfish, the boat caught brill record is a huge fish of 16lb exactly, whilst the shore caught best lies some-way behind at only 7lb 7oz 8 drams. Distribution: Found throughout the North Atlantic, although mainly in deeper water…

When Geoff Maynard, the editor,(Sir to me!) asked if I was interested in writing an article on fish, native to England, that are now found in Australia, I thought about it for ten seconds and then said ‘YES’. As a Pommie with dual nationality, now resident in Aussie, any chance of writing on my favourite…

This scene of death is taking place on the surface of an ocean where a group of big hungry hard fighting scaly predators known as Jack Crevalles roam the warm waters in search of food. It’s the result of an ambush on a shoal of bait size fish. The water erupts again with swirling, diving…

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…