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Fish and Game

SideCountry Network

A SideCountry Network podcast about British fishing, shooting, hunting, wild food, working dogs and life in the field. Presented by Avian Sandercock, Sam Turner and Jake Woolf.Fish and Game:https://sidecountry.co.uk/shows/fish-and-game/Presenters:Avian Sandercock: https://sidecountry.co.uk/people/avian-sandercock/Sam Turner: https://sidecountry.co.uk/people/sam-turner/Jake Woolf: https://sidecountry.co.uk/people/jake-woolf/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fishandgamepodcast/More from

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36:17

So You Want to Get Into Country Sports?

Fish and Game ·

2026/10/07

How do you get into country sports when you didn't grow up around them?Listener James has recently moved from a major city to rural Wales with his young family. He wants to get involved in country life but has no shooting or fishing background and nobody locally to show him the ropes. So where do you start? Apply for a shotgun certificate? Buy a fishing rod? Book a shoot day? Join an organisation? Or simply find somebody who knows what they're doing?Jake Woolf, Avian Sandercock and Sam Turner reckon

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33:08

The Gentlemen: Shooting, Etiquette and CGI Ducks

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2026/09/30

What does The Gentlemen actually get right about a driven shoot?Season two of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series opens with a grand shooting party at the Horniman family estate. There are aristocrats, international guests, matching guns, loaders, helicopters, business deals and some fairly questionable CGI birds.Spoiler warning: this episode discusses the opening episode of season two of The Gentlemen.But if this was your first glimpse of driven game shooting, how much of it resembles the real thing?Jake

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42:04

Deer, Deer Everywhere

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2026/09/23

What exactly counts as a British deer?Is it a red stag on a whisky bottle, a muntjac standing beside the A11, or a Chinese water deer that appears to have grown a pair of fangs?Jake Woolf, Avian Sandercock and Sam Turner take a look at the six species of deer living wild in Britain, with Sam bringing some first-hand experience from farming red deer.They work through red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer, including where they came from, where you are likely to find them and the

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47:55

Partridge, Pear Trees and Small Bores

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2026/09/16

What makes the grey partridge so special, and why is its French cousin now a far more familiar sight on British shoots?JOIN THE PATREON HERE: https://sidecountry.co.uk/supportWith the partridge season underway, Jake Woolf, Avian Sandercock and Sam Turner take a look at one of Britain's classic game birds.Jake has already been lucky enough to shoot both red-legged and wild grey partridge this season, which leads into the differences between the two birds, why grey numbers declined so dramatically and

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47:05

From Zero to Salmon - sort of.

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2026/09/09

What exactly is fly-fishing?Is it the refined art of matching the hatch and delicately presenting an artificial fly to a feeding fish - or is it simply “fluff chucking”: standing beside a body of water, waving a rod around and hoping the fish do not laugh at you?Jake Woolf, Avian Sandercock and Sam Turner attempt to get to the bottom of it after Jake has won himself three days of salmon and sea-trout fishing in Scotland.There is only one slight problem: he hasnever really fly-fished before. So Sam

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36:17

A Beginner’s Guide to Wildfowling

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2026/09/02

What exactly counts as wildfowling? Is it any pursuit of wild ducks and geese, or does it only become wildfowling once you are cold, wet, deep in estuary mud and questioning your life choices?Jake Woolf, Avian Sandercock and Sam Turner attempt to get to the bottom of one of Britain’s oldest and most demanding forms of shooting.They look at the traditional world of foreshore wildfowling: early starts, evening flights, shifting tides, slippery mud, quarry identification and the importance of joining a

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61:46

What The Hell is SideCountry?

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2026/08/28

What connects baking sourdough, climbing mountains, keeping chickens, deer stalking, forestry, fishing, farming and knowing how to sharpen a chainsaw?In this episode - broqadcast across every show on the SideCountry Network - Richard Prideaux and George Browne attempt to explain what SideCountry actually is, why it was built, and where the network is heading.They start with George’s idea of the “sourdough pipeline”: the idea that apparently unrelated countryside interests are often connected by the

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34:11

The Uniform of the Field

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2026/08/26

What are you actually supposed to wear for a day in the field?Jake Woolf, Avian Sandercock and Sam Turner work their way through the strange mixture of tradition, practicality and unwritten rules that governs sporting clothing. They start with driven shooting: tweed caps, ties, cravats, breeks, plus fours, shooting coats, estate tweeds and the question of whether matching tweed is smart or simply too much. From there they move onto fly fishing, where technical clothing, waders, polarised glasses and

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38:16

Bitey Fish, Sucky Fish and Charter Boats

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2026/08/18

What actually happens when you book a fishing charter — and how much do you need to know before stepping aboard? This week, Jake, Avian and Sam head to sea. Or, more accurately, Jake heads to Suffolk Yacht Harbour to meet charter skipper Garry Wicks, while Avian and Sam contribute varying degrees of useful knowledge from dry land. Garry has spent a lifetime around boats and fishing the waters off the Suffolk coast. From his boat Dawn Raider, he explains what a charter skipper actually does, why

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35:06

Big Plans and Small Dreams

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2026/08/11

The season begins with British bluefin tuna, breeding woodcock in Cornwall and three very different shooting calendars. In the first full episode of Fish & Game, Avian Sandercock, Sam Turner and Jake Woolf set out their plans – and rather smaller personal ambitions – for the months ahead.Sam wants to tackle Atlantic bluefin tuna off the South West coast, prompting a look at the boats, tackle and controlled fishery behind one of Britain’s most remarkable sporting recoveries. Jake is preparing for

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35:16

Introducing Fish and Game!

Fish and Game ·

2026/08/11

Meet the Hosts of Fish and Game! - Fishing, Shooting and What to Expect from Fish and GameShort summarySideCountry founder Richard Prideaux introduces Avian Sandercock, Sam Turner and Jake Woolf. They compare their fishing and shooting backgrounds, explain what has brought them together and set out a podcast built around learning, community, conservation and getting more people into the countryside.Episode descriptionMeet Avian Sandercock, Sam Turner and Jake Woolf, the three hosts of Fish and Game,

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