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The atmosphere about the place was difficult to describe. The motley bunch of carp anglers who gathered there at weekends all interpreted the strange feel of the lake in a different way. Sometimes it seemed to resent you; at others it was happy to see you, and on some occasions showed its sense of humour…

Tying a brightly coloured plastic bead to the end of your line before putting the reel away at the end of each trip might seem like a small, seemingly insignificant thing to do, but it does have a number of benefits beyond the easy way to find the start of the line……… which old bats…

Although one of the reasons for developing boilies was to reduce the number of nuisance fish caught, there is no doubt that even a two pound roach will have a go at a boilie if it has learnt that they make a good addition to it’s diet. Most carp anglers now use large quantities of…

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…

On the Bristol Reservoirs this has generally meant in April over the last few years, whereas beforehand the fish didnt used to show signs of surface feeding until May. I will start your dry fly collection with a basic “Bobs Bits” which is a great all round fly that will catch fish in any conditions….