Sand-eels

Hello there fellow anglers , Dose anybody out there catch their own sand-eels if so can you tell me how you catch them when you catch them and were you catch them :?:
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however Lesser Sand Eels can be dug from the sand at very low water in channels... provided you have very quick reflexes! In Cornwall and south west England in general people use a small hand-held curved iron bar (a bit like a poker with a hook on the end) called a vingler for snagging sand eels. I've never seen it done but am told it is a skillful ago-old practice. Locally I know of several people who use a push net, another English invention, which is a triangular net with a fine mesh and metal lip that is pushed along the sand catching anything disturbed in this fashion.

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met two old boys last summer who had loads of the best of the west sand eels caught using a cheese-knife with a groove v shaped cut in the back,they said hoke about at low water and you can fill a bucket in half an hour,trust me they had eels to die for.

careful of the weavers mind u

are there any tell tale signs on the beach of where to hoke about for the sandeels when trying this??

The following link gives some info on how and where to catch the fresh sandeels. (scroll down a bit) Hope it is any good.

http://www.bassbonkers.com/index.php?main_page=page_2

-F

thanks for the quick reply cisco

A couple of methods that work for me are as follows.

1) Go down to your mark at low water , preferably a spring low at night armed with a headlamp, garden hoe and a a bucket. Start running the hoe through the sand within a couple of meters of the low tide line. this disturbes the sandeels that pop to the surface. You have to be quick as they bury themselves again fairly quickly. It is here a second pair of hands comes in handy. Put your catch into a bucket of fresh sea water, preferably with a aerator to keep alive. Once you get home pack in 10's in ziplock bags forcing out as much air as possible and freezing.

2) The second method that I have used is netting. One hawl and you are set up for the year. My friend has a special net for this task it is 30m long and about 1.5 m high. it is a two person job. We target a channel mark at low water. We streach the net across the width of the channel and drag the net up along to the end of the channel where hopefully we will have a net full of sandeels and enough to do us for the year. A smaller net will do the job just keep dragging it through the water with somebody and eventually you will get into some sandeels.

The best time of the year to target sandeels is late summer early autumn when they are larger and more plentiful. You can get them in numbers in may onwards but they tend to be fairly small. Last January while digging for white rag on the west coast I came across plenty of large sandeels popping to the surface which suprized me.

try and find out someone locally to you who can show you how its done as reading it is one thing but seeing it is another.

THAKS FOR THE INFO LADS VERY HELPFULL :D :D :D :D IM GOING TO TRY TO NET THEM AND STOCK UP FOR THE YEAR.ANY ONE NOW ANY WERE IN DUBLIN I COUlD TRY :?:

THAKS FOR THE INFO LADS VERY HELPFULL :D :D :D :D IM GOING TO TRY TO NET THEM AND STOCK UP FOR THE YEAR.ANY ONE NOW ANY WERE IN DUBLIN I COUlD TRY :?:

Millisle.

Maybe Sandymount would be a good bet?