Eels

[headless]

Has anyone advise on how to avoid the Eels when targeting Zander

Darrell

[Vagabond]

Originally Posted by headless

Has anyone advise on how to avoid the Eels when targeting Zander

I take it you are using fish baits ?

Keep 'em off the bottom - float or paternoster rigs.

Interesting that you are pestered by eels in Suffolk - on other forums you get long diatribes on the scarcity of eels.

They are not scarce in Kent/Sussex/Hants, - thats big eels, medium eels, bootlaces, and last spring I watched a huge run of elvers - and No 3 son fishes the Ribble for barbel and chub and gets pestered by eels there.

The eel conservation industry seems to think I am making it up !

[headless]

I use dead Rudd on the deck, I have tried fishing the baits off the bottom but I did not feel confident with using deads off the bottom, I am not keen using lives, lives also attracts Jacks and smaller Zeds

I will give fishing off the bottom another go.

As for the Eel population, the last four/five trips out I have been up all night striking at thin air, Thursday evening I dropped down to a single size 10 treble baited with tiny pieces of Rudd and hooked loads of Eels, most of them approx 2ft long with a few biggins thrown in

I dont mind catching Eels if I am targeting them but I am after the Zander

Thanks for your reply

Darrell

[Greenheart]

Bootlace eels used to be a real pest around here. Lucky to get one or two a season now. Did'nt get any last year.... Going to have a night session at our club lake, Crockerton this year & target them with deadbaits & there's been a few bigguns caught there. Got to get hold of a copy of the late John Sidleys book Eels again. Best book on the subject of catching eels ever written.

[bushie]

Originally Posted by Greenheart

Bootlace eels used to be a real pest around here. Lucky to get one or two a season now. Did'nt get any last year.... Going to have a night session at our club lake, Crockerton this year & target them with deadbaits & there's been a few bigguns caught there. Got to get hold of a copy of the late John Sidleys book Eels again. Best book on the subject of catching eels ever written.

ian give me or dave a shout when you go for an eel session as we would like to join you.i had a 3lb 1oz last weekend.i think the record will fall again this year so we are putting in as many sessions as we can.

[devondave]

Originally Posted by Vagabond

I take it you are using fish baits ?

Keep 'em off the bottom - float or paternoster rigs.

Interesting that you are pestered by eels in Suffolk - on other forums you get long diatribes on the scarcity of eels.

They are not scarce in Kent/Sussex/Hants, - thats big eels, medium eels, bootlaces, and last spring I watched a huge run of elvers - and No 3 son fishes the Ribble for barbel and chub and gets pestered by eels there.

The eel conservation industry seems to think I am making it up !

Plenty of eels in all the somerset still waters I have fished recently too and I even caught one a couple weeks back on bread flake

[Greenheart]

Originally Posted by bushie

ian give me or dave a shout when you go for an eel session as we would like to join you.i had a 3lb 1oz last weekend.i think the record will fall again this year so we are putting in as many sessions as we can.

Will do mate....

[Ryan messen]

Originally Posted by bushie

ian give me or dave a shout when you go for an eel session as we would like to join you.i had a 3lb 1oz last weekend.i think the record will fall again this year so we are putting in as many sessions as we can.

If you go between now and the 18th I would love to join you as I've never gone after the snakes before only ever had bootlaces whilst roach fishing.

[devondave]

they are quite fond of prawns here