Twig or T bar.

[Bob Watson]

Any of you eel anglers use either of them, which is the most effective?

I'm getting myself rigged up for some eel fishing a bit later in the year, so I'll be picking brains on preferred bite indication and rigs etc! I know some prefer fishing off a baitrunner and bobbins, some prefer drop offs, any reasoning behind the different choices would be good, some prefer mono over braid etc

Ta!

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

My neighbour had a year or so after eels and after a bit of trial and error, settled on the twig,
!00% lip hooked and easier to build.
Baits were hair rigged luncheon meat and chopped pieces of worm on a Korum spike hair stop thingy.
After telling him about Steve Pitts and the judder rig theory, he went for a large running lead combined with quite a short hooklink, indicator was a lightly set swinger with bites being hit on the way up.

Cheers, Alan

[Steve Dennington]

Would circles be effective as an anti-deep-hooking measure? I don't tend to deliberately catch eels, so I don't know.

[Bob Watson]

My neighbour had a year or so after eels and after a bit of trial and error, settled on the twig,
!00% lip hooked and easier to build.
Baits were hair rigged luncheon meat and chopped pieces of worm on a Korum spike hair stop thingy.
After telling him about Steve Pitts and the judder rig theory, he went for a large running lead combined with quite a short hooklink, indicator was a lightly set swinger with bites being hit on the way up.

Cheers, Alan

I subscribed to the judder rig theory years before I'd heard it called that

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

My neighbour had a year or so after eels and after a bit of trial and error, settled on the twig,
!00% lip hooked and easier to build.
Baits were hair rigged luncheon meat and chopped pieces of worm on a Korum spike hair stop thingy.
After telling him about Steve Pitts and the judder rig theory, he went for a large running lead combined with quite a short hooklink, indicator was a lightly set swinger with bites being hit on the way up.

Cheers, Alan

I subscribed to the judder rig theory years before I'd heard it called that

Cheers, Alan

[Wayneelman]

I've been incorporating 6mm bamboo twigs and also popping up my hook baits with a modified widget as a riser and anti gorge device.