";s:4:"text";s:3017:" baits, species, methods, rigs. Personally can't stand catching the buggers so would advocate rubber onesI have caught them on size 12 and size 10 Kamasan B911's, but I've not been targeting them. sufficiently rigid to deter the eel from mouthing it.Cut it For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
upon, have some mechanism such as a claw, hook, sucker or And now, I have decided to look at anti-gorge systems. I once drew the ticket with the dreaded red spot on it, it meant that you had the scales for your section. Because they were a soft hook, they bent when pulled, and then the "team" just bent them back and carried on. Use of the twig needs popularising for the sake of eel conservation and to make eel angling friendlier in the current times when recreational eel angling with rod and line is under threat.
As coarse anglers we should be showing respect for all fish species (even carp!!). The Rig With the lead setup created the actual rig I fish with it is kept nice and simple, as I favour tried and trusted presentations rather than over complicated confusion! larger size of twig put the fish off? If this happens, I will just have to think of the ninety-nine-point nine percent of eels I have prevented from swallowing the hook by having a twig on the trace; some of which the twig had surely saved their life.
Hook lengths were broken and another put on. developed for eel angling… Initial trials were 100% Less, but still quite a few eels, caught using an off-bottom Dyson rig, manage to swallow the bait down too. Becoming a WSF Member is Free, you can also sign up using your Facebook, Twitter or Google Account to make life even easier.Has anybody here tried using circle hooks for flatties? After the trials were completed, it was the 1mm carbon rod that was preferred for the twig.
just over ½ inch from the corner of its mouth. Resistance rigs can be suitable for some venues but not others.
Barry McConnell's Anti gorge Twig rig Mark Salt's Circle hooks article Simple! Systems have now been suggested that can solve the problem, eradicate deep-hooking and save the life of many eels. Strip down and simplify. Cheapest you can find, don't cost you too much when you cut the line Eels are really fascinating creatures but not very pleasant to handle, but then nature doesn't exist purely for our pleasure I guess.I don't know how some of you would have survived back in the 60/70s fishing matches on the Wharfe below Tadcaster. TWIG TRIALS – A plastic rig-tube on the trace with a bunch of worms two inches away Eels are expert at stripping bait from the hook.