Woody’s Angling Centre

Traditionally it is fished as a point fly with a floating line and a greased up leader using a very slow retrieve. However there are many other methods of fishing this buzzer including having a dry or floating fly on the point with the buzzer fished on a short dropper. Another useful approach is to…

The close season has been a frustrating one. The continuing Foot and Mouth crisis has kept most rivers out of bounds denying access for my traditional reconnaissance trips. I love to stomp the banks of the Kennet in the spring looking out for new swims and seeing the changes the winter floods have wrought on…

Where to start then? If at all possible I would urge a newcomer to pike fishing to ask an experienced piker if they could tag along for a session or two. There are several reasons for this. First and foremost, it is to be shown how to handle a pike on the bank. It is…

Articles by Jason Inskip Jason Inskip Jason Inskip has a notably pathetic record in the capture of large specimens, although he has been a keen angler for over 30 years. This inept performance covers most branches of the sport, including coarse angling and saltwater flyfishing both in the UK and elsewhere. He prefers to use…

British Disabled Angling Association officials put their call for a more inclusive and fraud free concessionary licence for disabled people to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Elliot Morley MP., at a specially arranged meeting at Whitehall. With the backing of the Environment Agency, the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) delegation of Director…

flounder [Species Menu] [flounder articles] Common name: Flounder Latin name: Platchthys flesus Record weight: As an inshore species, both the boat and shore records for flounder are very similar with weights of 5lb 11oz 8 drams and 5lb 7oz respectively. Distribution: Flounder are very common in shallow coastal waters around Europe. These small fish can…