How to catch sandeels and sand smelts

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Live Sandeels are a devastating bait, catching almost every fish that swims. Probably the best bait for catching bass. Sand smelts are also a fantastic bait for bass and freshwater predators such as pike and perch love them. The video shows you how how easy it is to catch your own sandeels (both lesser and greater sandeels or launce) and sand smelts. I also show you how to store the livebaits without the need for a livewell or battery powered airstone. Simples!
The best locations to catch sandeels are areas of sand or sand bars, especially at the mouths of estuaries. Sandeels tend to bury themselves in the sand at night, but come out and swim during the day. Sand smelts prefer brackish water in sheltered areas for example further up an estuary. Smelts are usually found in shoals, and in the video you will see the shoals of sand smelts appear on the fish finder.
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Equipment...
Hobie 19 Fishing Kayak with 180 mirage drive
shorething.co.uk/
Lowrance HDS Live 9 Fishfinder/Plotter
www.lowrance.com/en-gb/
Navionics Electronic Nautical Charts
www.navionics.com/gbr/
Flambeau Trolling Bait Bucket
Fladen Micro skin 6 hook sabiki feathers #16
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 How to catch sandeels - tackle and technique
1:25 How to store live sandeels and sand smelts
2:11 Bonus launce
2:45 How to catch sand smelts
3:00 Bonus mackerel -
5:00 Closing comments

Пікірлер: 26

@i1bike 2 жыл бұрын

You need 4 lives of catching sandeels to pay off that lowrance setup haha. Amazing video m8

@giacomolamanuzzi2231 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video and channel mate, sent over by Alistair Cole

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much - say Hi to Al from me

@thebuzz2010 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, did your kayak change colours half way through the video? Lol

@dizzyfish 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Yes, I used footage from a couple of trips… glad you enjoyed it

@carperblue 3 жыл бұрын

Nice tip with the bag, I am forever losing fish under my seat.

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they always go under the seat or down through the scuppers!

@carperblue 3 жыл бұрын

@@dizzyfish I found a crab alive in my drive one day. About 4 days after the Poole flounder comp. it could have only come from my kayak and then off the car roof.

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

@@carperblue my better half was moaning about the fact that something was smelling in the garage... 2 days later I found one of those smelts under the seat of the Hobie!!

@carperblue 3 жыл бұрын

@@dizzyfish 😂

@devonfishing8187 3 жыл бұрын

never thought off catching sand eels what bait tank are you using

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

Its alot easier than digging them or using a seine net... I use a livebait bucket from Flambeau.... its cheap and simple, but does the job.

@devonfishing8187 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply, it looks a good way to get bait 👍🏻

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

@@devonfishing8187 my pleasure... but be warned catching sandeels is quite addictive!

@supercecchi 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian! How do you rig the sand eel to use it as bait? Thank you.

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

I will do another video to show you Andrea, but basically, you put the hook in through the mouth of the sandeel, out through its gills and then nick the hook through the sandeel's belly. I use a weedless worm hook as it fishes better

@supercecchi 3 жыл бұрын

@@dizzyfish thank you

@carpykyle 3 жыл бұрын

Be great to see the video of you using them live!! Do you find the fish with the gps or do you know the area they will be in usually. Also are they usually over a Sandy ground or over rock etc?

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

carpykyle I will put a video up showing how to use them catching bass and wrasse.

@dizzyfish 3 жыл бұрын

@@carpykyle and @supercecchi I have just published a video showing how to hook and use lice sandeels. Let me know what you think kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fd52obJq37K6mHU.html

@basshunter9030 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, please can I ask what you were using as a weight under your feathers in this video?

@dizzyfish 2 жыл бұрын

Hi @Bass Hunter, I use a 28g shore jig - they are quite cheap, and they often pick up bonus fish

@basshunter9030 2 жыл бұрын

@@dizzyfish Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

@basshunter9030 2 жыл бұрын

@@dizzyfish Thank you. Do you think that using anything heavier would rip the hooks out of the mouths of the sandeels? For example I’ve found that when feathering herring up on mini shrimp rigs, if I use too heavy a lead then it ends up ripping the feathers out of the soft mouths of the herring.