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!
Twig or T bar.
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Re: Twig or T bar.
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
!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
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Re: Twig or T bar.
Would circles be effective as an anti-deep-hooking measure? I don't tend to deliberately catch eels, so I don't know.
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Re: Twig or T bar.
cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19 2024 07:17 -I subscribed to the judder rig theory years before I'd heard it called thatMy 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
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Re: Twig or T bar.
Bob Watson wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19 2024 14:02 -cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19 2024 07:17 -I subscribed to the judder rig theory years before I'd heard it called thatMy 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
Cheers, Alan
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Re: Twig or T bar.
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.