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When fishing in Fenland, matchmen used to detest Eels but now, they adore them. Why? [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Quite simply, because they have learned how to win money on them in the lower reaches of rivers such as the Witham, Welland & Nene, and on such drains like the Forty Foot. The method used also works well on similar venues elsewhere in the World, the slow rivers of Somerset in Britain or The Grand Canal in Ireland for example. Given a good draw, experts can catch 50 - 60 Eels in the usual 5 hour match time, How much they weight really depends on the venue. Wrigglers on the waggler When fishing on the Fens went into decline in the mid 1970s and matches were won on a regular basis with catches of between 7 - 12lb of Bream, the realization of the Eel came into play. Anglers were quick to realise that matches could be won on large bags of Eel, which were plentiful in the slow chanels. The method then was the waggler and loosefed bronze maggot, with bronze maggot on the hook, but because only a handful of anglers in a match setting would set [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] out their stalls for Eels, once they started feeding the water, they soon drew large numbers of Eels from neighbouring pegs both beside them and across from the other bank. Constant feeding was used to hold them, and it [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] was common to get through 5 pints of maggots in one sitting. With the constant feeding in play, Eels soon started to rise up in the water in competition for the feed, the answer then was to shallow up and catch them on the drop. Masters in the method regularly weighed in 10lb or more of Eels alone. These days it is harder [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] to catch a good bag in a match setting, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] not because there are less Eels, but more so because so many people use the method now that you are forced to share the Eels in the water with your many other competitors. With fewer Eels in your swim, they tend to stay feeding on the bottom. The good side to this is that you will oly use about 2 pints of maggots for your sitting. Practicing on your own can bring you back to the glory days of the method. The Pole While the waggler was the new thing of the early days, so to the long pole-short line method. This method now reigns supreme because of the fact that you can hold your bait dead still in the water, just the way Eels want it, and results in more bites. The Pioneer of this method was Tom Pickering and was the foremost Authority for many years. The stiffer the pole, the better, rigged up with strong elastic -No.6 or 7- through two sections. Then, when you've hooked a bigger than average Eel, there is ample power and stretch to cope as it burrows along the bottoom, taking as much as 7ft of elastic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] out. With lighter elastic, even [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] through 2 sections you can break in the fish. You also want the elastic fairly tight - to get the right tension when fitting out your pole, cut it approximately 16" [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] shorter than the top 2 sections of the pole. The diagrams below show you 3 good rigs for different conditions<img src="" border="0" width="211" height="301" align="right" style="width: 211px; height: 301px;" /> The best place to fish is usually just past the near shelf, where the bottom levels out. Careful plimbing is the way to find this spot, then set your rig to fish 2-6" overdepth to begin with, and bait your hook with a single bronze maggot. Start feeding a bunch of bronze maggots and castors in a tight cluster around your float - the idea is to draw the Eels into your swim quickly, continue to feed about 20 maggots each time you drop your float into the swim. If fishing is going well, then stick to this amount, but if it's hard going, cut back to 6 or 7 per [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] drop. The type of bites you are looking for are the ones when the bristle slowly sinks out of sight - you don't usually miss these. More often than not, you get a lot of fast bites aswell. Sometimes there might be line bites, but most of the time they are proper bites on the drop, so always strike them - if the Eel has the hook in it's mouth you have a 9020images/Eels_excited.jpg" border="0" width="350" height="358" align="right" style="width: 350px; height: 358px;" /> You will notice sometimes that your float goes and you strike, but nothing is there, or you just feel a slight bump. This happens most often when the Eels are dashing about up in [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the water, but it can also happen when they are down on the bottom. There's nothing you can do about it at these times, but perservere, trying slight alterations of depth, further out or closer in, and do try different baits. Double bronze maggots, casters and red maggots are all worth a try, but you have to accept [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] that you are always going to miss a few of these bites. When you have hooked an Eel, judge it's size first [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and if it's a small one just take the pole back to the unshipping point and let the elastic do the work, but if it's any larger, feed the pole back slowly, unship the pole one section lower down, to allow for the extra lenght of elastic pulled out. Don't take the extar section off though, until you have full control over the Eel. It is far easier to unhook an Eel in your net, but grip the fish lightly, the harder you grip, the more the Eel struggles. Beware of smaller Eels swallowing the hook completely, if this happens, you shhould just cut the hook off rather than pull it out and damage the fish, pulling the hook will eventually kill any Eel you return to the water.
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