Flounder Fishing in Devon

Inside estuary channels on neap to mid tides. Ragworm or lug on light running rig; cast short and let bait roll. Best autumn–spring.

Best late autumn–winter. Ragworm or lug on long-snood flappers in the river channel on the ebb and first push of flood; target muddy edges and sandbanks.

Near the Axe mouth on ebb and first of flood; short casts with rag/lug tipped with crab. Light gear.

Short casts with rag or lug into the first gutter; winter and after blowy spells. Slow water around low to mid-flood.

Autumn–winter in the channel; lug/rag or soft crab on size 2 flappers. Cast uptide and let it sit. Neap tides help presentation.

Autumn–winter in Skern channels; lug/rag or crab on light running rig; best last of the ebb and first flood.

Small rag/lug or crab on flowing trace. Fish inner estuary gutters on the ebb and first of flood; autumn–winter.

Autumn–winter in surf gutters on lug/rag. Short casts into the first channel on a flooding or ebbing tide; slow retrieve to search.

Oct–Feb; ledger ragworm or lug on long snoods over the sand; best last of the ebb into first of the flood.

Autumn–winter inside the estuary margins; light running rigs with rag or lug, keep baits moving slowly on the last of the ebb and first of the flood.

Autumn–winter; rag tipped with mackerel on short snoods, fish within 10–40 yd over the sand. Last of ebb and first of flood work.

Near the stream/outflow and inner gutters; small worm baits, slow retrieves. Best in autumn-winter on a flooding tide.

Autumn–winter; short casts with rag or maddies to margins and channel edges near the river mouth. Best on the flood to high.

Late autumn-spring; short casts with worm baits on clean sand. A trickle of freshwater after rain helps; flooding tide.

Winter; lug or rag fished short into gutters with slow retrieve; best last of ebb and first of flood.

Late autumn–winter near the estuary channel on the flood. Lug or rag on simple running rigs; target seams where sand meets gravel.

Autumn-spring near the Crow Point end. Small lug/rag or crab, fish close in the channels on the ebb and first of the flood.

Autumn–winter inside the estuary; rag or lug fished close-in and slowly trundled; neaps or early flood often best.

Late autumn-winter on the beach side; cast worm baits to the channels on neap tides and an incoming tide.