Berr luddy bootlaces are back!

[Peter Waller]

Tony Jolley will be pleased! Went after bream last night, but what did I catch? Eels, and yet more eels, and even more eels. If the eel population is down to 1% then I dread to think what it would have been like with a 99% increase, sheer nightmare!! Anyone else noticed an increase in eels? Now know why I took to lure fishing! No eels.

 

Yes, I did have just one bream, on my first cast, and that was it.

[awaaar]

Peter - was on the Ribble last night, and guess what?...

 

eels, eels, eels!

 

Few big uns too...but a lot of bootlaces, nice sight, they've been absent for a couple of years now....

[Andy Macfarlane]

No shortage of eels about Glasgow (and further North than that) either.

[fatallove]

I adore the bootlaces it's when they are above a pound it frightens me their teeth are bigger

[Andy Macfarlane]

Yea Wendy but the bigger eels behave themselves better.

[DJMCJERICO]

I had a 5lb eel 2 weeks ago, then last thursday a bloke next to me fishing casters had 2 on the trot and changed bait, and a bloke next to me sunday had 3 on a trot fishing single maggot.

[fatallove]

Had a blast with the bootlaces last year on a canal.

 

Pinkie - bootlace

single maggot - bootlace

double maggot - bootlace

tripple maggot - bootlace

sweetcorn - bootlace

Sheer desperation large chunk of luncheon meat - 4lb pike

[Socksy Squirrel]

fatallove:

I adore the bootlaces it's when they are above a pound it frightens me their teeth are bigger

Obviously you have not seen the needle sharp gnashers sported by a 25lb conger ghost

[Norfolkdan]

I would love to catch 1, but embarassed to say I never have.

 

Peter, I don't suppose it was on the broads you were getting them?

[Peter Waller]

Upstream of Great Yarmouth it was Dan! More eels last night than in the last three years . Just lump on a leger and a big bunch of maggots, just slightly easier than getting a parking ticket in Norwich.