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Twig or T bar.
Posted: Mon Mar 18 2024 20:58
by Bob Watson
Any of you eel anglers use either of them, which is the most effective?
I'm getting myself rigged up for some eel fishing a bit later in the year, so I'll be picking brains on preferred bite indication and rigs etc! I know some prefer fishing off a baitrunner and bobbins, some prefer drop offs, any reasoning behind the different choices would be good, some prefer mono over braid etc
Ta!
Re: Twig or T bar.
Posted: Tue Mar 19 2024 07:17
by cookiesdaughtersdad
My neighbour had a year or so after eels and after a bit of trial and error, settled on the twig,
!00% lip hooked and easier to build.
Baits were hair rigged luncheon meat and chopped pieces of worm on a Korum spike hair stop thingy.
After telling him about Steve Pitts and the judder rig theory, he went for a large running lead combined with quite a short hooklink, indicator was a lightly set swinger with bites being hit on the way up.
Cheers, Alan
Re: Twig or T bar.
Posted: Tue Mar 19 2024 11:45
by Steve Dennington
Would circles be effective as an anti-deep-hooking measure? I don't tend to deliberately catch eels, so I don't know.
Re: Twig or T bar.
Posted: Tue Mar 19 2024 14:02
by Bob Watson
cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19 2024 07:17 -
My neighbour had a year or so after eels and after a bit of trial and error, settled on the twig,
!00% lip hooked and easier to build.
Baits were hair rigged luncheon meat and chopped pieces of worm on a Korum spike hair stop thingy.
After telling him about Steve Pitts and the judder rig theory, he went for a large running lead combined with quite a short hooklink, indicator was a lightly set swinger with bites being hit on the way up.
Cheers, Alan
I subscribed to the judder rig theory years before I'd heard it called that
Re: Twig or T bar.
Posted: Wed Mar 20 2024 07:36
by cookiesdaughtersdad
Bob Watson wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19 2024 14:02 -
cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19 2024 07:17 -
My neighbour had a year or so after eels and after a bit of trial and error, settled on the twig,
!00% lip hooked and easier to build.
Baits were hair rigged luncheon meat and chopped pieces of worm on a Korum spike hair stop thingy.
After telling him about Steve Pitts and the judder rig theory, he went for a large running lead combined with quite a short hooklink, indicator was a lightly set swinger with bites being hit on the way up.
Cheers, Alan
I subscribed to the judder rig theory years before I'd heard it called that
Cheers, Alan
Re: Twig or T bar.
Posted: Tue Apr 09 2024 16:31
by Wayneelman
I've been incorporating 6mm bamboo twigs and also popping up my hook baits with a modified widget as a riser and anti gorge device.