Eel Trapping?

[Ggib 370]

When's the best time to trap eels in the rivers?

[Blackbriar 8,569]

They're in serious decline. Leave them alone ..................

[Ggib 370]

They're in serious decline. Leave them alone ..................

I'm not going to start commercial trapping just 1 or 2 to hot smoke

[squab 2,875]

thought you need a license to trap eels

[Ggib 370]

thought you need a license to trap eels

not for 2 own use pots, I'd just like to try them

[squab 2,875]

 

thought you need a license to trap eels

not for 2 own use pots, I'd just like to try them

 

we used to fish the canals for them,skin em portion them up roll in flour and fry fecking lovely,eat the jellied eels sometimes when visiting the coast but never made them myself

[Ggib 370]

Don't fancy jellied eels they'd be like cat food lol

[Ggib 370]

For 2 eels just use some smelly bait and a rod and line

but with the live trap the toddlers get let go unharmed no tangled lines with a strangled eel, I have the traps collecting dust, what bait is best to attract them?

[squab 2,875]

size 8 hooks fat juicy lob worms,strike early they take the hooks right down otherwise

[Ggib 370]

Il try the mackerel, n hide it well in the deep holes in the river, keep yas posted on how I get on

[taz2010 1,297]

Trapped eels for the last 8 years with fyke nets,licence from enviroment agency,there sadly in a vast decline but made a good living years ago from them,AVERAGE 3 TONNE A SEASON,but sadly this year will only catch a few to eat myself

[air gun ant 1,666]

thought eels were a protected species now? i used to just use and old onion sack stuffed with straw and an old chicken carcass or smelly mackeral like has been said.

[air gun ant 1,666]

http://www.ayrshireriverstrust.org/blog/2013/07/03/eels-are-a-protected-species/

[Ggib 370]

That's Scotland, I'm in Northern Ireland, where they're not really fished for except on the lower bann where they're caught in the thousands at toomebridge

[air gun ant 1,666]

yeah some guy in the tacke shop told me they were now protected, but thats the only thing i could find , and like you say thats in scotland.

bet smoked eels pretty tasty? get some pics up mate when there done, i love anything smoked lol good luck