well went to craufurdland today and it was slow going,usual excuse too bright, then changed to a black and green fritz lure and bingo a full tailed three and a half pound rainbow,what a specimen and what a fight,well pleased,then things went quiet so i stuck a black an green booby on, two and a bit feet of tippet, varying speeds of retrieve,and all went tight ,****** must be stuck,no i thought i had a sack of tatties on,thing wouldnt come to the surface though,thought this is a boody big one,aye right it was a big one ,an eel about three pounds booby in its gub,luckily a had my pike pliers with me ,got my booby back and returned the snake,god i hate those things,,,,,took a pic of the fish,never got one of the eel though

You let the best fish go After fishing Loch Lubnaig with my buddy we had brown trout, Arctic char and eels gods honest truth mate eels where the best skinned chopped into 2" sections and stir fryed Id swop trout for eels any day ! Funny as i tried jellied eels years back hated them ??

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the guy that runs the fishery says that as well, eel taste quite good,i,ll take your word for it

Yes,

eels are very good eating!

Its supposed to taste like chicken so someone once told me but i think i will take their word for it Those things give me the Heeby Geebies

Eel actually has a higher calorific value than salmon and is delicious smoked. I once caught one on a dry fly on the Monnow. I could hear a continual noisy rise on the far side as the light was fading, crossed over and crept up behind a weedbed to see an eel lying on top of the weed slurping down midges and a CDC pattern was taken as nice as you like.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

When I was a young boy my mam used to cook eels
cow eels.

Alan

Well done on the eel mate

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