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Chub Frenzy

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Hi all,

I am going to be fishing around Easter period and need a few tips as relative begginer.

I would like to catch something i can use as livebait with a float, off piers or just the shore.

I want to use a float as previously had no luck with anything else, and am a very good course fisherman.

I was thinking of using sandeel as it seems all species like them maximising my chances of finally catching a fish from the actual sea - previous fish from harbour.

The problem is how to i get sandeel.

I could go for the easy option and buy it but i really like sourceing my own bait.

So whats the best way to get em?

 

Many Thanks

I am fishing kent coast - herne bay and whistable area.

 

Chub

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Hi all,

I am going to be fishing around Easter period and need a few tips as relative begginer.

I would like to catch something i can use as livebait with a float, off piers or just the shore.

I want to use a float as previously had no luck with anything else, and am a very good course fisherman.

I was thinking of using sandeel as it seems all species like them maximising my chances of finally catching a fish from the actual sea - previous fish from harbour.

The problem is how to i get sandeel.

I could go for the easy option and buy it but i really like sourceing my own bait.

So whats the best way to get em?

 

Many Thanks

I am fishing kent coast - herne bay and whistable area.

 

Chub

Go out on some charter trips and learn the basics!

Eating wild caught fish is good for my health, reduces food miles and keeps me fit trying to catch them........it's my choice to do it, not yours to stop me!

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Hi

 

Getting fresh sandells is not always easy, I have caught them with a prawn push net off the yorkshire coast and scotland. In yorkshire on a few low tides in spring they just pop up as the tide turns after they have spawned. With practice you can flick them from the sand at low water by dragging a knife backwards through the sand but you have to be in the right location. I have always wanted to try a trow net but the cost puts me off.

 

I tend to use good quality frozen or the plastic holigramatic type.

prp

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Out from folkestone, we catch them with shrimp hokkies on the varne bank, we keep them alive all day using a container thats has sea water pumped in, you can also keep them alive just by changing water on a regular basis kept in a bucket. The best bait to use in the summer, i recon.

 

Fishing weymouth, there is usually a commercial guy who nets them for all the charter boats who require them, the commercial rod and liners use them as well, they are kept alive in huge holding tanks within the harbour. One enterprisng skipper even drags a small net for them on one of the sand banks.

 

On a sad note the guy who every one relyed on for the sand eel at weymouth, sadly went down with his boat a couple of years ago, very bad situation that was. Bless him.

Edited by barry luxton

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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I have been googling and it seems sandeels are quite hard to find.

I was thinking of getting ragworm as these look quite the same......

Do ragworm catch the same species?

Would it be ok float fished?

Anyone got any tips on finding and catching one?

 

Many Thanks

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