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…

During the winter months something like ten tonnes of bream were taken out of the Engine House lake and put into the Yacht Lake. Now when you consider that the “yachter” already had a very big head of bream in it you can get some idea of just how many bream are there now (mind…

Away back in the early summer this year, Kevin, Michael and myself had come to a decision: we needed help from a really well-seasoned rod-and-line tuna fisherman. We weren’t so much worried over how to fight a big fish – I myself, for instance, had spent half my life chasing big saltwater fish, the marlin…

After a very hard winter with huge amounts of snow the season had been expected to get under way later than usual. Due to the unexpected warm weather the snow has disappeared completely from the valleys and these conditions have led to the salmon running early from the beginning of may. The conditions on Gaula…

With me I took Pete Tew, owner of Carp Unlimited who had helped me considerably during the winter with putting together the tackle requirements and bait for the season, Ian Witwell, from Eastbourne, Jamie Goouge a 17 year old carp crazy kid who had scrimped and saved for 6 months to afford the trip, and…

The fish are caught in unpolluted waters with hardly another angler in sight , they’ll have your arms aching with strain as the species caught here are fit, strong and not in a mood to be landed without at least a good scrap before they surrender their freedom.My name is Gregg Smeal I am a…

It was a wild, desolate and beautiful place. Acres of rocks, kelp and bladder-wrack interspersed with spits of shingle and sand. Rushing green slides of clear tidal water ran like rivers in flood between boulders of granite, all of it stretching away towards the horizon. A place of currents, washed out shells, where a myriad…

It’s just over six hours flying time from Gatwick. There are flights in and out every Friday to Banjul, fares are relatively cheap, as is accommodation, and you’re pretty much guaranteed good weather outside the main rainy season through August and September. More to the point the fishing can be awesome with not just a…

That’s just one of the questions on the immigration paperwork that tourists to the USA have to cope with. Still, they let Ginger in, and if they let him in I was bound to get in. Ginger, you see, has emigrated to the Colonies. Having married Mary, his lovely American wife 20 odd years ago…

‘ Nice tuna,’ he said. ‘Uh uh,’ I replied. ‘ I don’t think so.’I hardly get the words out of my mouth before Jeff throws the ju-ju sign at the bait on the long corner. Incredulously, within seconds, a long brown shadow appears behind it and like a consummate magician Jeff calmly says, ‘There she…