By cutting a ribbon, something that was done by Arnold Woerts and Paul van den Driesche (the former and new man in charge of the flyfishing department of angling shop Wout van Leeuwen in Vlaardingen), the flyfishing section of this angling shop was officially opened on Saturday the 7th of May. After several flyfishing shops had to close in the Rotterdam and The Hague area, flyfishers from there (and far beyond) have a shop available for them again.
The opening started at around 13.00 hours with a short speech by Marcel Schouten of angling shop Wout van Leeuwen.
Arnold Woerts, who used to run the flyfishing department until about eight years ago, was called forward as well. On the lower stairs is Paul van den Driesche who will be in charge of the new flyfishing section inside the huge shop.
Jaap Muda, the former owner of Wout van Leeuwen, indicated that he was very happy that there was flyfishing section inside the shop again.
A huge pair of “flytying scissors” was used to cut the ribbon.
Fly-rods from brands such as Sage, Vision and Airflo can be found here.
Along the walls are fly-tying products, hooks and smaller items for flyfishing.
A nice range of flylines meant for flyfishing for pike.
At the opening several old friends met each other again here, like Pierre Bronsgeest (former chief-editor of Beet magazine) and Wout van Rijmenam (a former champion fly-caster who used to work at flyfishing shop Martin Hengelsport).The flyfishing section is in the back of the shop and there is enough room to display all of the products.
Fly-tiers that live in the area, like Piet Weeda and Jay Lee, can now find products to their liking again closer to home.
The address of the angling shop:
Hengelsport Wout van Leeuwen
George Stephensonweg 21H
3133 KJ Vlaardingen
The Netherlands
Website: www.woutvanleeuwen.nl
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