One of natures miracles the Eel. Worthy of any anglers time..

Another example why i love this channel and the content they create so much. Everything is made with so much passion. It is a pleasure to see some eel angling again. Kind regards from Germany

Bout time more eel video's were out .I like to use a live or dead baits on 1 rod and worm on the other any eels that just feed on shrimp and other naturals have smaller mouths than eels that feed on fish so I like both baits out .

Great stuff. Truly still one of the only mysterious fish left to fish for. Such a unique species.

Beautifully demonstrated. The rig makes all the difference as anyone who has deep- hooked an eel will know. They are just too precious these days.

The coolest Video in the Specimen Series, so different and cool to Watch Mega

Loved eel fishing.little tip.once banked use both hands put your thumb n forefingers at the center of the eels back n stoke out woods 3 or 4 times.you will find the eels go limp n are so much easier to handle n unhook

Brought back memories of nights with my mates as 12 Yr olds. We called the small ones boot laces. Really enjoyed the video.

Excellent! A big eel is a pretty rare creature these days. I love fishing for them. Great vid Phil!

Lovely bit of fishing Phil . Nice to see a few eels on the bank .

Love eels I’ve caught them at my club water when fishing for carp on krill boilies and they have been a fair size up to 5lb and all went back unharmed the way it should be 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Eel whisperer! So few eel stuff being showed. Totally fascinating fish! It's all about the appropriate gear handy to make it easier! Barbless hooks all the way. N that twig rig is a great idea. ..Yes big head morphology types adapted to catching or scavenging upon fish...

If you stroke an eel down one side they stop struggling. I fished for eels on the river Medway as a boy and was given that tip by some old feller but you know, it works and i still stroke any eels that i catch today as a 75 year old.

brilliant phil ..wud luv to see a longer in depth video on eel fishing they are incredible creatures!....and yeah i use the twig...it realy does stop deep hooking the eels...tight lines....

Brilliant something different too carp love eels like really love them used too fish the Severn as a young lad and caught loads over the years nothing massive about 4-5lb biggest-but there’s just something about them I love

Really enjoyed watching that! Thanks so much for sharing :)

Brilliant watch. Nothing better then a big eel in my book. Well done 👍🏻

What a lovely video ! thanks from Sweden

Awesome buddy awesome..some lovley eels there .. cheers Chris & Sam

I remember fishing on the Oulton/Norfolk broads as a kid (40 yrs ago) on holidays and every chuck maggot or worm got an eel sometimes 3lb+ . different story now days , had an odd one out the River Trent at Attenborough but few and far between nowadays.. Good angling Phil and great video Angling Direct ... Steve M

Great video. Takes me bCk to the late 70s eel fishing at night in Yorkshire. Eels were everywhere then. Nothing to be proud of but I was taught by gypsys to use hand lines for eels in ditches that drained farmer's fields . Could catch 2 or 3 lb eels regularly. Good fun but they ruined nets with the slime. Happy days.

NEW Specimen Series eel video out now! If you love eels as much as Phil does then check out episode two where Phil catches a couple of BIG eels kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9h0Zaaj1dTNqYU.html 😮

Just watched a video about a 10lb eel !! I never thought I would be interested in watching someone catch an eel 😳😳…. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this video as I did the one I have just watched. 👍🏽👍🏽😁😁 Oh no !!!! Does this mean I have been bitten by the eel bug and don’t know it yet ??? 😬😬 Cracking video and I have to say that I am now getting some respect for them slimy rig knotting trouser sliming fish 👍🏽🤣😄

US Eel angler here! Really appreciate the rigs in your 2 eel videos. I use a large circle hook and that has worked well for not gut hooking but I'd like to try this as well.

very very good video there Phil, The last time I fished there on the big lake was behind were you were peg 19 and had a good day catching bream, Thank you for another brilliant video, ❤

Another top video Phil, a pleasure to watch although im not as jealous as this one as i was of the crucian video 😁

I cant do much fishing these days but if you want one of the best baits for Eel try Peeler crabs used by sea anglers,Eels go crazy for them.Another old trick was to put a bit of peppermint essence on your worms when targeting Eels..It certainly didn't put them off.As for venues I agree completely with Phil.I used to fish an old gravel pit for tench and landed Eels to around 4lb as a bye catch,But I hooked fish every session that I could not do anything with.I also used to fish the many drains and disused docks in my home city which always held good Eels.There is a clip that someone posted on youtube of a former dock in Hull that I fished as a kid.It now has a shopping centre on stilts and the water has been purified enough for Koi carp, which congregate near a bridge where people feed them.The film shows a large Eel come from the depths and take a live baby pigeon from the surface,It then turns into a tug of war as other large Eels appear from nowhere to try to steal the bird from each other, Poor pigeon was dead in no time😄

Eels are such thrilling fish once you get onto the bigger ones and their fight is so different full marks with the stick rig great ✴✴✴✴✴show thank you kind regards Mr D

Such a great fishing man! Inspires me to target big specimens! In between my average carp fishing.

Phil your a legend and thanks for the uploads you have kept me going must go fishing thank you so much

Fantastic really enjoyed that.

Fantastic video and thank you for sharing your knowledge of how to fish for these beautiful creatures. That is a great rig to prevent deep hooking. Course fishing license now purchased after a few years off from fishing and just need to get on the bank. Best Wishes From Chester 👍

iv always had a soft spot for eel fishing ever since i was a kid, 56 now and still fish for them on the river severn, but lake eels are the big ones

Quality video as always. You could fish for specimen minnows and it’d sill be a great watch. Keep up the top work.

Eels have always fascinated me. Grew up near Niagara falls in ontario American eels were classified as Endangered. Now in on the east coast and they are an open Species to eat. Landed a 23" American Eel in a river out here a good sized 3lbs or so animal. Ours stay inland for 25 to 30 years them go and breed in the ocean somewhere.... so my eel was old enough to have voted a few times depending the nation drink, and drive a car... crazy.

Used to catch eels as a boy in the river Yeo, but we used to skin them and fry them in bacon fat. Fantastic

I really enjoyed that mate first time ive seen your channel and it's genuinely inspired me to have a go targeting eels. I'm lucky enough to be able to fish a stretch of river on private land and when I started I was constantly after a decent Perch with worms but would catch an eel almost every session to the point I hated them for the slime and ruining my rig. Completely changed my opinion of them watching this. Will investigate that twig rig for sure.

Very good film. Hardly any decent ones available on eel fishing and it's something I enjoy doing in the summer. Well done.

Dartford angling club has a book showing the eels caught in the valley I have caught them up to 6lb and 7lb on holiday in sumerset great upload lay them on there back and rub your hand down there middle it works thanks some people can't understand the fish

We have some belters at Newland Hall Fishery essex should come down and have a ago

The hot weather claimed 2 large eels out my local river. I'd say 3-5lb each roughly

Fascinating. A few years ago a friend of mine put a sneaky crayfish trap out in what was once a stock pond near the big lake (is a small fishing lake but nobody really uses it) whilst fishing a commercial fishery called Newland Hall near Chelmsford. He pulled it out after dark and called me up to show me something special so he said. When I got there he had not one but three eels biggest 9lb 4 smallest 7lb 7 in the trap. Nearly died looking at them. Honestly the pond/lake can’t be more than half an acre at most. All released back to grow even bigger and fatter on crayfish.

Good work as usual Phil

As a fish, the Eel is amazing. I loved catching eels on the River Ribble in Lancashire ('Snigs' they were call around thee) But quite often they would swallow the hooks too quick, tie themselves into a knot (literally) and leave a hell of a mess I have respect for them and i feel sorry for the only who

Another awesome video, im trying for zander this late summer/autumn would love to see how the main man does it on deadbaits :)

Lovely video

Very interesting video got me thinking about giving them a proper go, perhaps one rod out for an eel while I carp fish. Could be the only truly 'wild' fish most of us will catch in UK freshwater

Twig rig, good tip

I read that eels naturally have the smaller heads, but depending on food availability, their anatomy will change (head/jaw widens) to enable them to hunt and eat small fish.

This is class. Subbed.

Great vid that Phil! Reely good..

A friend of mine used to catch big eels on tiny roach dead baits from a small pond literally miles away from the local rivers and canals.

Smokey bacon is a deadly bait for eels.

In the 1700's & 1800's around Lancashire they used to wrap tons of lobworms up within a ball of wool and once it became a giant wriggling ball of wool, it would be thrown in and tethered - Leave it for a full 'turn' of the tide, and then when they brought it in it would be teeming with 'Snigs' that had been attracted to the worms & got their backwards facing teeth stuck in the wool - unable to escape. "Dinner would be served" that night ! Anyone else know of this common practice ?

The much me maligned eel, Wish more people would fish for them. Dont be afraid to use swivels, Remember an Eel can swim just as fast backwards as it can forwards

Awesome video. I had best fish on (fresh) raw kink prawn cheers for the video!

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Brilliant film as always, I'm looking for a rear drop off alarm for Eels, perch and pike which one would you recommend? Thanks

I don't know, are we not better just leaving these be for a long long time? The numbers have declined by so much in the last 15 years alone, id rather they were protected and not allowed to be targeted on purpose. They are beautiful and I do love catching them, or at least I did many years ago when their numbers were high but it is so sad to see places they used to be plentiful, even annoying due to their numbers, just empty of them now and it is everywhere.

Really enjoyed the video, going to get out on my local broad and have a go, what coated braid were you using?

I love eel we dutch cal it Paling we eat eel We smoke it

Very good and interesting movie. Can I have some more, please? When lip baiting, the eel feels the hook doesn't it? The eel swallows the bait fish head first.

Great presentation. I’d rather catch an eel than a carp

How far out was you chucking the roach head ? Tia

Wow... Nice 👍 I am to world fastest Eel fishing 👍

Hello, nice video. So this rig must be fished with the bail open AND the baitrunner also open? Thanks

Is it worth fishing for them in the day time or would I be wasting my time. I love eels but I can't night fish on my local pit. great video plz keep them coming .

Great to see a video on this, love Eel fishing, twig rig is awesome, I have a 30acre pit no one has ever targeted the Eels on manged up to 3lb first try. I dont tend to bait up for them with them having small stomachs, you recon it makes a differece? Was toying with the idea of a potent pellet that breaks down to just scent so no feed apart from the hook bait

Fantastic video Phil, I love Eel fishing. I know a venue that holds big Eels but also has a massive crayfish problem. Any ideas on a rig to get around that would be most appreciated lol.

Always wondered why you don't get any carp on the worm? Or is it a case of they are so addicted to boilies they don't know what a worm is

Any chance of stick float fishing for barbel

Sorry, but you need to come to Scotland and fish our lochs the eel up here are very big on average are over 4 lbs, and caught on just hook and line, none of this daft rig stuff.

Is there anywhere I can buy them rigs ready made I don’t have the time to make me own rigs or the space house full of kids and I work nights lol

as a New Zealander whose used to massive longfin eels they looked tiny... but i'm guessing they were fairly large for the uk?

Would a mussel work well as bait for eels with these being present in most lakes and like the empty mussel shells as seen in this video?

Do they bite?

Phil what length is the jube please

What brand and model of tent are you using? I've seen a few other videos of fishermen in Britain using them.

What tubing do you use for twig rig

Are you aware of the20lb plus eels southwestern Japan?

sod that i don't like eels give me the jitters

Can't lie I hate eel I don't harm them i release them if caught but still I hate them my local Lincolnshire gravel pit produced a 9 pounder it was doing like this hissing squeak

Do eels damage lakes or are they needed??? Fished for eel's years ago for my nan, she loved cooking up some at weekends when the men went to the pub and come back to a real women as they are few and far between!!! Great video bud, sub and like! Pls don't turn into one of those who sells out after some fame on KZfaq! Gl chum! 😜

i would smoke them all

Hate catching these to much faffing

Carp rods for eels, cmon now mate...

So much plastic in angling tackle these days. What happened to keeping it all simple.