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If you want to know how to successfully catch Eel in freshwater, stay in this page. Here you will know the fishing technique, the season and the material for eel fishing in freshwater.
Season
Eel fishing is only really effective from late spring to autumn. In winter and as long as the water remains cold, eels take refuge in the mud on the bottom of rivers and ponds and will not start feeding again until mid-April. In rivers, eels are most active in summer, on hot summer days and even more so if a storm surge has fouled the water.
Bait
As bait, a large earthworm, presented at the end of a solid line, will give the best results.
Material
Indeed, after the shoeing, the eels will have to be taken out of authority, before they take refuge in a herbarium, wrap themselves around a dead branch or seek refuge in a rock crevice. A 30/100 leader is a necessity. As a hook size, numbers 6 to 8 are perfectly suited. If there are no worms, dead fish such as minnows or small dowels will do perfectly well. For large eels, live fishing is also very effective.
Fishing for eel with lead
In large rivers, when it is necessary to place bait further offshore, lead fishing is essential. A simple throwing stick can be used to place a large worm or a small dead fish several tens of meters from the edge, behind a lead weight of 20 to 50 g depending on the force of the current. The wire is then stretched and the rod placed on a support. The keys are easily detected when the scion shakes, but it is good, when practicing with several rods, to place a small bell at the end of a clamp on the scions.
Here again, as soon as the shoeing is done, it is necessary to show authority and quickly remove the eel from the bottom and from the obstacles where it would otherwise seek refuge, inevitably. A line in 30/100 minimum, as well as a rather powerful rod, such as a pike thrower, or carp rod, are necessary, to quickly catch a beautiful eel.
Fishing from eel with Vermée
An ancestral technique that is a little out of fashion, Vermée is still the most effective method for catching eels. First of all, you need to get about twenty large black-headed worms (earthworms), which you will thread, one behind the other, lengthwise, by means of a long needle on cotton yarn to be mended. This produces a "needle" of worms about a meter long, which is made into a ball by wrapping it around your fingers. All that remains is to attach this swarming mass of worms, around a lead, at the end of a strong line attached to the end of a solid bamboo jet.
Thus equipped, we will prospect under the cane, the deep banks. The eels that chew the worms, make the cork jump and take their tiny teeth in the cotton threads to be mended. They will not let go until they reach the surface, where the fisherman will quickly remove them and make them fall back into a large old umbrella, open and placed upside down next to him. As there is no hook, the eels will unhook themselves and remain trapped.
