To gaff or not to gaff congers?

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lumpy
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#21 Post by lumpy »

t bar all for me. in skilled hands in conjunction with a barbless hook you can remove surprisingly deeply hooked fish. the majority of shore caught conger can be safely handlind.
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ahem!

#22 Post by kieran »

Hi

I have read on this site a contribution which suggested that if you stuck something up the eel's anus (such as the spring from a spring balance) that the eel would go completely rigid. :shock: Can anyone verify this?
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#23 Post by lumpy »

lets be honest i think if you stuck something in anybodys anus they'd go pretty rigid!!!!!
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish


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#24 Post by petekd »

Think if I were the eel I'd rather have the line cut thanks very much!
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Re: ahem!

#25 Post by Drew »

kieran wrote:Hi

I have read on this site a contribution which suggested that if you stuck something up the eel's anus (such as the spring from a spring balance) that the eel would go completely rigid. :shock: Can anyone verify this?


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