Piking

[stealthy1 3,964]

Get your spinners and plugs out lads.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

I usually start piking when the frosts come.....obviously still to dust the gear of this year and it may not even happen! Im off barbeling tomorrow, weather forecast has given 11degrees!

 

Anyone else in similar situation or started piking regardless?

I'm the same first few hard frosts and then it's time. Haven't had the rods out yet since fishing for the eel in the summer.

[ryaldinhio 4,562]

 

I usually start piking when the frosts come.....obviously still to dust the gear of this year and it may not even happen! Im off barbeling tomorrow, weather forecast has given 11degrees!

 

Anyone else in similar situation or started piking regardless?

I'm the same first few hard frosts and then it's time. Haven't had the rods out yet since fishing for the eel in the summer.

Is there a story behind 'the eel' or is it just in general you fish for eels in summer?

[ryaldinhio 4,562]

Get your spinners and plugs out lads.

I used to love fishing with plugs and spinners, caught and lost some big fish with the method....BUT for some reason now I get bored with it very quickly??? Dont know why, can't put my finger on it.

 

If the weather stays like this I wont be doing any piking this year. Fingers crossed for a freeze and a decent snow fall.

 

For me Piking now is when its freezing cold and fishing lives(if can catch em) or deads amd keep moving. There is no feeling like that when float fishing a deadbait amd the float sat there still suddenly twitches, bobs and slides away. The first thought everytime is....this is a monster! Its just something about dead bait fishing. My regular fishing partner thinks Im mad because summer pike fight harder and all that but for me winter is pike time.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

 

 

I usually start piking when the frosts come.....obviously still to dust the gear of this year and it may not even happen! Im off barbeling tomorrow, weather forecast has given 11degrees!

 

Anyone else in similar situation or started piking regardless?

I'm the same first few hard frosts and then it's time. Haven't had the rods out yet since fishing for the eel in the summer.

Is there a story behind 'the eel' or is it just in general you fish for eels in summer?

http://www.eelfishing.co.uk/eel.php

[ryaldinhio 4,562]

 

 

 

I usually start piking when the frosts come.....obviously still to dust the gear of this year and it may not even happen! Im off barbeling tomorrow, weather forecast has given 11degrees!

 

Anyone else in similar situation or started piking regardless?

I'm the same first few hard frosts and then it's time. Haven't had the rods out yet since fishing for the eel in the summer.

Is there a story behind 'the eel' or is it just in general you fish for eels in summer?

http://www.eelfishing.co.uk/eel.php

I know what an eel is fella! had em to 4lb, not that I was fishing for them.

 

Just wondered if that was what you spent most your time fishing for?

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Edited December 30, 2015 by THE GENERAL

[ryaldinhio 4,562]

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Not sure pike gear will be getting dusted off this season way its going. Have you had much luck with the eels? big ones are hard to come by Ive heard? They go well though dont they.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

 

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Not sure pike gear will be getting dusted off this season way its going. Have you had much luck with the eels? big ones are hard to come by Ive heard? They go well though dont they.

Nice on the pan throw most of them back though. loads of bootlaces got a few half decent ones and seen only a handful of good ones caught.

[Lenmcharristar 9,762]

 

 

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Not sure pike gear will be getting dusted off this season way its going. Have you had much luck with the eels? big ones are hard to come by Ive heard? They go well though dont they.

Nice on the pan throw most of them back though. loads of bootlaces got a few half decent ones and seen only a handful of good ones caught.

do you fish for them at night or day? And do you use the worm or traps, I'd love to try smoked eel, looks the ticket

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

 

 

 

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Not sure pike gear will be getting dusted off this season way its going. Have you had much luck with the eels? big ones are hard to come by Ive heard? They go well though dont they.

Nice on the pan throw most of them back though. loads of bootlaces got a few half decent ones and seen only a handful of good ones caught.

do you fish for them at night or day? And do you use the worm or traps, I'd love to try smoked eel, looks the ticket

Evening time threw to night usually slacks off in around 2.30am so that does it, worm and maggots sometimes. No don't use traps did in the past when we had a boat. A friends family are commercial eel fishermen so never any shortage of them if I want some for the pan.

[Lenmcharristar 9,762]

 

 

 

 

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Not sure pike gear will be getting dusted off this season way its going. Have you had much luck with the eels? big ones are hard to come by Ive heard? They go well though dont they.

Nice on the pan throw most of them back though. loads of bootlaces got a few half decent ones and seen only a handful of good ones caught.

do you fish for them at night or day? And do you use the worm or traps, I'd love to try smoked eel, looks the ticket

Evening time threw to night usually slacks off in around 2.30am so that does it, worm and maggots sometimes. No don't use traps did in the past when we had a boat. A friends family are commercial eel fishermen so never any shortage of them if I want some for the pan.

what do you think of the smoked eel? Any I've ever caught were line tanglers lol the mate caught one before around 4.5lb on a dead roach fishing for pike from the long lough yrs ago

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

 

 

 

 

 

Ah right, no I thought u where asking what the season was for them and why I fished in the summer for them lol. Yeah do that in the summer and some trout fishing with the youngsters and then when the hard frost and colder weather kicks in then I hit the pike

Not sure pike gear will be getting dusted off this season way its going. Have you had much luck with the eels? big ones are hard to come by Ive heard? They go well though dont they.

Nice on the pan throw most of them back though. loads of bootlaces got a few half decent ones and seen only a handful of good ones caught.

do you fish for them at night or day? And do you use the worm or traps, I'd love to try smoked eel, looks the ticket

Evening time threw to night usually slacks off in around 2.30am so that does it, worm and maggots sometimes. No don't use traps did in the past when we had a boat. A friends family are commercial eel fishermen so never any shortage of them if I want some for the pan.

what do you think of the smoked eel? Any I've ever caught were line tanglers lol the mate caught one before around 4.5lb on a dead roach fishing for pike from the long lough yrs ago

Never tried it before mate but it's something I'll look into. I've seen a few 3lbers taken out of lakes not far from me but no 4lb+ lads fishing late in the evening on the bottom for trout caught them but none that size from the Lough or the mouth of the river leading to the Lough. The eel are definitely not as big as they used to be, getting smaller as the years go by. Edited December 31, 2015 by THE GENERAL

[NEWKID 27,152]

My cousin traps the eels on our river once the salmon season finishes, makes good money out of smoked eels, real delicacy and sought after in all the fancy restaurants round here.

The smoking house he uses is 100 odd years old, I've had a couple of packets off him and they are lovely, really delicate flesh and not over smoked, lovely flavour.

Better than smoked salmon or trout for me.

[NEWKID 27,152]

Here's a link to his website, he's done since a kid with my uncle before him, they've always worked the river.

http://smokedfish.yolasite.com/products.php