Secret fish from undisclosed stillwater

[runforyourlife 361]

I was flicking through some old photographs and reflecting on days gone by... I then came across a few predators that werewnt meant to be there, and had gone undetected for most of there lifes.

 

The eel in question is my personnal best, and believe that i am exstremely lucky to have caught such a big fish, as eels of this size are very very few and far between..Awater i used to baliff some 20yrs back was the landing place of this great fish....

While piking on this difficult sindicate water, i had a very unusual run, which i could only discribe as an eel take! Nothing more happened until about 12mths later, when more or less the same thing hapened in roughly the same area.

I usually only fish for eels in scotland, at certain times of the year but decided on putting a night campaign together to see if much materialized. Using deads and lives on my Eeling gear, a friend and i put in 18 night sessions. It was on the third night in that i had the one and only run from an eel. We fished on and on after it, in the hope of more but nothing happened. Never had i heard of an eel being taken from this water, and never since to my knowledge.

 

The eel weighted 7lb 1oz!! And fed in bitterly cold conditions (when eels were at truth meant to hibernating!) but this is when the 2 previous runs had acured! Now an eel of this size will be at least 50yrsplus of age, and i should imagine would have soon been heading back to the saragasa sea to spawn and die, just think if i had not acted on the dropped rund, this eel would have gone unnoticed all of its life.... What a creature!

[nelson1 1]

Hi Matey, Bloody eel looks like a conger Nice story, Nice catch you sould frame that picture well in

[runforyourlife 361]

Hi Matey, Bloody eel looks like a conger Nice story, Nice catch you sould frame that picture well in

 

 

Cheers nelson, it was at one time blown up to epic proportions and hung on the wall in one of those glass things, i feel the wife got a little pissed off with it, and it suddenly dissapeared, i dont put any pics up now of my angling exspoilts....

[nelson1 1]

Yea I know what you mean, Its funny lookin back at some pic, Aspecialy when I was young And how we went about things, cold & wet waiting to catch something these day alittle more thought goes into it, Am abit of fair weather fisherman these days last time I was out in october the chances are march will be the next time I'll lauch out for the early bass

[fish 148]

I was flicking through some old photographs and reflecting on days gone by... I then came across a few predators that werewnt meant to be there, and had gone undetected for most of there lifes.

 

The eel in question is my personnal best, and believe that i am exstremely lucky to have caught such a big fish, as eels of this size are very very few and far between..Awater i used to baliff some 20yrs back was the landing place of this great fish....

While piking on this difficult sindicate water, i had a very unusual run, which i could only discribe as an eel take! Nothing more happened until about 12mths later, when more or less the same thing hapened in roughly the same area.

I usually only fish for eels in scotland, at certain times of the year but decided on putting a night campaign together to see if much materialized. Using deads and lives on my Eeling gear, a friend and i put in 18 night sessions. It was on the third night in that i had the one and only run from an eel. We fished on and on after it, in the hope of more but nothing happened. Never had i heard of an eel being taken from this water, and never since to my knowledge.

 

The eel weighted 7lb 1oz!! And fed in bitterly cold conditions (when eels were at truth meant to hibernating!) but this is when the 2 previous runs had acured! Now an eel of this size will be at least 50yrsplus of age, and i should imagine would have soon been heading back to the saragasa sea to spawn and die, just think if i had not acted on the dropped rund, this eel would have gone unnoticed all of its life.... What a creature!

thats a fish you get once in a life time if your lucky. have seen 100s of them that size and bigger got in fyke nets

would have loved to have got one on a rod.

[thepriest 0]

I was flicking through some old photographs and reflecting on days gone by... I then came across a few predators that werewnt meant to be there, and had gone undetected for most of there lifes.

 

The eel in question is my personnal best, and believe that i am exstremely lucky to have caught such a big fish, as eels of this size are very very few and far between..Awater i used to baliff some 20yrs back was the landing place of this great fish....

While piking on this difficult sindicate water, i had a very unusual run, which i could only discribe as an eel take! Nothing more happened until about 12mths later, when more or less the same thing hapened in roughly the same area.

I usually only fish for eels in scotland, at certain times of the year but decided on putting a night campaign together to see if much materialized. Using deads and lives on my Eeling gear, a friend and i put in 18 night sessions. It was on the third night in that i had the one and only run from an eel. We fished on and on after it, in the hope of more but nothing happened. Never had i heard of an eel being taken from this water, and never since to my knowledge.

 

The eel weighted 7lb 1oz!! And fed in bitterly cold conditions (when eels were at truth meant to hibernating!) but this is when the 2 previous runs had acured! Now an eel of this size will be at least 50yrsplus of age, and i should imagine would have soon been heading back to the saragasa sea to spawn and die, just think if i had not acted on the dropped rund, this eel would have gone unnoticed all of its life.... What a creature!

Thats a pretty serious eel mate.

Ive caught a few gooduns in my time but mostly by accident but nothing that big. Eels are one of the few fish where theres still a bit of mystery over. Theres lots of waters that are land locked and hold some big old snakes, But nobody really targets them seriuosly round my way. Its quiet likely if you caught no more from that water that they may have run to sea. Or someone had took them for the pot

[runforyourlife 361]

Nah, there where eels in the water in the first place, probarbly a freak fish, the river was no more than 100yrds away, so it had obviously reached the water from there.....the only thing being, that the river in question used to be one of the worst poluted in england!! and at the time the eel will have ran the river it was probarbly beofre the second world war, so it could have still been clean!! madness when you think aboutit....

[longnob 66]

[Barbus 0]

What a cracking fish mate, dont see enough off em being caught really,welldone mate wonderful specimen indeed

[J Darcy 5,871]

A superb catch....

[cameron 0]

dstrf

Edited November 11, 2008 by cameron

[ferret boy charlie 0]

nice catch mate ill have to put some pics up of a bigun i cought lol,

[Brimmer 220]

Awesome critters, and an awesome catch! Hope the creature made it back in the end to produce the next elvers for the next 50 yr generation!

Crazy to think, a human generation is only counted as 20 yrs!

[runforyourlife 361]

dstrf

 

 

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[runforyourlife 361]

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