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!!
If I'm not gonna catch a fish , I may aswell not catch a BIG fish !
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
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