rubber sandeels on the fly rod????????

[dan]

ny1 use them this way, i recon it would for pollack, coalies and mackerel........

[theshoreking]

Yeah,

works alrite. Even works for bass. I find its best to keep em movin nice and slowly - not too jerky a retrieve.

sk

[dan]

i fancy givin ity a go on harbours for pollack but of it works for bass i mite give it a go on a beech some where.

[theshoreking]

It was off rock marks it worked for me but it mite work on a beach over sand too.

sk

[dan]

atleast it works.

[anthony2carr]

Think I will be trying this tomorrow.

Just taken delivery of some eddystone eels.

[dan]

definitely worth it...

[anthony2carr]

I was out today. Just fishing deceiver flies. Fishing was very poor , so I didn't bother trying the eels.

Managed 1 pollock/coalie when it was too dark to see what it was.

[theshoreking]

Still,

1 fish on the fly rod is worth ?????? many on any other tackle.

sk

[dan]

depends on the species.

[anthony2carr]

Tried rubber sandeels today. No luck. But then I had no luck on the bait rod either, so it's not really a test.

[dan]

mite work beter in summer.

[craigo]

I fished with the eddystone blue & white one over a sand bank and cought bass on them so they do work on a beach .
This was in September I'm not too sure if sand eel are seasonal though!!

[dan]

bait fishing with them are good at this time of year.

[fenitbob]

had these cheap eddystone eel type of things when I was out fishing once. one of the guys I was fishing with cut the tail off one of them to stop it spinning cast it with his flyfishing gear and caught a bass. so yeah once you can present it in a believable way it should work

[dan]

probably chucks up some seatrout, pollack, coalies and possibly cod or gurnards if you can get them close enough to the bottom.

[liamdenn]

Hi guys,
Have tried these and use them all the time as a teaser when plugging. You have to use very small ones or they become a pain to cast. Have a look at http://www.mikeladle.com/tackle/tackle03.html. Mike is a super bass man and although he uses all methods he does all his fly fishing using a rubber eel. My humble opinion is that you may be better off when using the fly rod to stick to a tied sandeel pattern rather than a rubber eel, easier to cast and easier to fish in a lifelike way. There are loads of usefull patterns out there but if anyone is stuck let me know and I will try to help
Liam

[dan]

cheers for that....