eel season.

[nicksuper7]

hi all , is anyone having much success eel fishing at the moment ? been a very slow start for most that I know. anyone catching ?
nick

[davelumb]

16 in five evening to midnightish sessions. But all around one pound or less. Was going to go tonight but I can't face more miniscule snigs.

Have heard of a four and a five from another local water - both in daylight during the hot spell.

[nicksuper7]

1 eel in 15 nights for me. it was 4+ and what I expected but normally a few more better ones have come out. must be getting old. prefer a blank night nowadays

[jack]

Averaging one per night session so far, nothing over 2lbs

[nicksuper7]

it's a strange one this year. better fish are very thin on the ground.

[Steve Dennington]

I'm doing superbly. Not a single one so far

[stubbojo]

6 today biggest 2lb , but been on the carp today tbh , set a rod up with small roach as bait , as it was slow ......

[AndyOBrien]

3 eels in 11 nights, pulled out of one that felt good the other night. Currently doing my 12th night so that figure might have changed by the morning.

[davelumb]

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[jack]

Nice! Blank again last night for me.

[stubbojo]

was carp fishing till the sniggs turned up .

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steve

[AndyOBrien]

5 eels in 17 nights now for me.

[AndyOBrien]

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Had a similar one the other night, went round one of my other lines, then done the twist

[davelumb]

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Had a similar one the other night, went round one of my other lines, then done the twist

I've had a few more little ones (four last time out) and have given up for now. I might have another few bashes later this month and into September.

[nicksuper7]

1 in 19 for me now . getting some great sleep mind

[AndyOBrien]

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Had a similar one the other night, went round one of my other lines, then done the twist

I've had a few more little ones (four last time out) and have given up for now. I might have another few bashes later this month and into September.

It's gone slower on my current water, but I'm sticking at it until pike time starts

[delboy]

I don't really fish for eels, I just fish for anything that comes along really, but I have had 3 I think now this year in broad day light around the 2lb mark on bacon grill, has anyone else used bacon grill, I don't think it is one of the usual eel baits.

[stubbojo]

someone on here said they do ok on lunchenmeat for eels
had them on sweetcorn

[Happy Hayes]

While fishing , the angler opposite me had three eels all on luncheon meat.
I didn’t even know it had any eels
Regards
Tom

[davelumb]

When I fished the Ribble in the 90s luncheon meat was the bait. As soon as it went dark it was eels all the way!

[stubbojo]

When I fished the Ribble in the 90s luncheon meat was the bait. As soon as it went dark it was eels all the way!

years back probably 40 years come to think of it , had a run on a gudgeon on the ribble it went upstream then down stream the power was immense still dont know what it was to this day , had a wire trace on and fifteen pound line .....in the end a big tree stopped me and it snapped me off as it was going to spool me so had to tighten up to get line back

that fish has never left my memory ............

the bailiff watched me play this fish and recons it was a very big salmon ..
at the time i was fishing for eels .

steve

[davelumb]

When I fished the Ribble in the 90s luncheon meat was the bait. As soon as it went dark it was eels all the way!

years back probably 40 years come to think of it , had a run on a gudgeon on the ribble it went upstream then down stream the power was immense still dont know what it was to this day , had a wire trace on and fifteen pound line .....in the end a big tree stopped me and it snapped me off as it was going to spool me so had to tighten up to get line back

that fish has never left my memory ............

the bailiff watched me play this fish and recons it was a very big salmon ..
at the time i was fishing for eels .

steve

Could have been a big salmon.

As an aside, you've reminded me that back to the 70s there were some monster gudgeon in the Ribble.

[nicksuper7]

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what it's all about.

[Monts]

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what it's all about.

Hook in the mouth photo? Social media is awash with close ups of lures in the mouths of Chub, Pike or Perch. And Perch and Pike with flys looking sexy in a fishes trap.

Perhaps this daft thing is catching on with Eel guys?

[AndyOBrien]

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what it's all about.

Hook in the mouth photo? Social media is awash with close ups of lures in the mouths of Chub, Pike or Perch. And Perch and Pike with flys looking sexy in a fishes trap.

Perhaps this daft thing is catching on with Eel guys?

I don't know, I think it's more to show that lip hooking is possible, here's another for you to enjoy

[davelumb]

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what it's all about.

Hook in the mouth photo? Social media is awash with close ups of lures in the mouths of Chub, Pike or Perch. And Perch and Pike with flys looking sexy in a fishes trap.

Perhaps this daft thing is catching on with Eel guys?

I don't know, I think it's more to show that lip hooking is possible, here's another for you to enjoy

That's how most of my bootlaces have been hooked this year. Only a couple have taken it inside the mouth out of 20 or so. Why did we use long hooklinks all those years?

[Monts]

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what it's all about.

Hook in the mouth photo? Social media is awash with close ups of lures in the mouths of Chub, Pike or Perch. And Perch and Pike with flys looking sexy in a fishes trap.

Perhaps this daft thing is catching on with Eel guys?

I don't know, I think it's more to show that lip hooking is possible, here's another for you to enjoy

I stand corrected.

[jack]

I was advised that using fish baits needed a long trace in case a pike picked up your bait.

[Fitas]

Need to keep your traces short less chance of a deep hook eel

[gary j stockton]

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Hi dave what hooklink material are you using, thanks gary.