EELS

[Anonymous]

Hi lads when was the last time and where you caught an eel not sswen many around for ages.

[TF_Waveney One]

I had 3 on Saturday on the R. Yare. Not so many as a few years back but there are still plenty caught in the matches every week.

The Broads still have plenty despite the cormorants and otters. Actually the otters in particular may well suffer as the the eels on the roads system have a high concentration of mercury in them. No licences to net eels on the have been issued for years on the Yare because of this and people have told not to eat them either.

As we know, apex predators accumulate things like mercury and DDT in their systems as their prey all have it in them.

[TF_wildinguk]

Had one saturday, about 3 1/2lb, from the Great Ouse at Kings Lynn fishing peeler crab. Not had one on the drains for a couple of years now, last time was in summer on the old nene and I had two about half pound each on chopped worm and maggot while aftet tench.

[TF_mp.milo]

Had a couple 2 weeks ago up to 2lb on Broadlands main lake,and lost a couple as well,there were a fair few caught,mostly on the waggler, maggot over loosefed maggot.

[TF_Dodge]

I weighed in my section on the 84 peg Crewe summer league a couple of weeks ago on the Trent & Mersey canal @ Northwich , one angler caught a huge eel so i weighed it seperately ….. it went 3.2.8 !

Also there was another eel caught on an open on the Shropshire Union canal @ Norbury last saturday which went nearly 4.0.0 i believe. Lots of eels coming out this summer from the Shropshire Union canal network ~clap

[TF_Chum MixerParticipant]

I saw an Eel Saturday………….. being eaten by a cormorant on the Trent ~naughty

[TF_the margin gnome]

Hope there arent too many with DDT!! Been banned for years.

[TF_Two-nets]

Wouldn’t fancy this one on the pole.

K’in eel – that’s a biggun!

[TF_Waveney One]

@the margin gnome wrote:

Hope there arent too many with DDT!! Been banned for years.

You are right – here in the UK and northern Europe it has been banned but it is still in the environment, my body mate and everyone elses over 30! It is something that will be in the environment for years I am afraid. Also a lot of countries where they have serious malaria problems have been using it until the millennium and to quote from the DDT fact sheet http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Actives/ddt.htm

“Global contamination
DDT is one of nine persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which bioaccumulate, and which are transported by air and water currents from warmer climates to temperate zones, where they have never been used. The process of degradation is dramatically slowed down in cooler climates. The global risk of adverse effects to human health and the environment has led the international community to mandate the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to convene an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) for a POPs Convention to phase out production and use.”

It may well be responsible for my diabetes as well according to the fact sheet!

[TF_carpmagicParticipant]

Fair few in Ferry meadows at the moment, all 1-2lbers though and brilliant at biting you off!

[TF_teabag]

quite a few were being caught at Lakeside Fishery (Haven) Burnham-on-Sea Somerset during last May, all around this size or slightly bigger.

[TF_Rob A]

I had a dozen or so a few weeks ago in an evening match on the river Exe, there must have been over 40 caught in my six peg section!

[Carp-CatchaParticipant]

River Nene is a consistent provider of eels, particularly when fishing for carp, bream, in fact any other species. Had a 4lb out a couple of days ago.

[Anonymous]

there’s a few in the stainy at the moment.quite a few small ones as well which is a good sign as it shows that they’re not getting netted as they come up the tidal trent(the stainy joins the trent).for a few years we just had the big old eels up to 3lb.

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