Your Least Favourite Species and Why

[Guest Alan Pearce]

To run alongside Steves posting I would be interested to know which fish you all dislike the most. For me it has to be eels, in fact they are the only fish which I have no interest in what so ever. In saying that they do have an amazing life cycle, shame though that they should migrate from the Gulf of Mexico. My dislike is due to two reasons, 1. they eat my bait intended for other species especially luncheon meat intended for barbel. Spend hours spotting fish then when located what normally takes the meat first? yes 2lbs of slime, scaring the barbel in the process. Even when perch fishing with small livelies in my neck of the woods eels can be a real pain. Back in early May when I started tench fishing I found a lot of the blows in the swims fished were caused by snakes, and boy don't they just love casters and small fish meal boilies. 2. I can't handle them, have tried honest, but the blighters just won't keep still, any ideas? They do however make great dead baits for pike so I'm never short of bait come winter.

 

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