sand eel

There is also a need for action in the sand eel fishery.

Each surfaces from its dive with what looks like a sand eel.

Sand eels are a primary source of food for striped bass.

It is also known as the lesser sand eel.

The bass in the channel were feeding on tiny sand eels.

Sand eels were scarce at first but the water was filled with squid.

Frozen sand eels can be effective, and little mackerel are even better.

One of the best baits is a sand eel, either fresh or frozen.

Common sand eel have an elongated body, with a rounded cross section.

In my rush to get going, I had brought only small flies intended to resemble sand eels.

Sand eels are often used as bait by fishermen, but few have dined on them.

I offered them a dozen different flies, but they were intent on the real thing, tiny sand eels.

A sand eel danced out of the way as we lolloped on to the beach.

"There were fewer sand eels this year," he explains.

Part of their effectiveness may be that they resemble an injured sand eel struggling on the surface.

They will eat a wide range of fish but their commonest prey is the sand eel.

It may have something to do with the many sand eels, a favorite food of the bass, that are present at that time.

Once again, the terns were there, as were the sand eels and the bass.

I immediately hooked a heavy fish on my sinking sand eel fly; five minutes later, it broke off.

"Bass were breaking all around us only a few feet away feeding on sand eels they had driven into the shallows."

Flies intended to resemble sand eels also work.

At such times, a fly that represents the silvery slender sand eel is usually necessary and often even it won't work.

Sand eels can grow to seven inches in length, but those up to five inches are the best table fare.

The smaller silversides can be cooked and eaten along with the sand eels.

None of the Sand Eels are related to the true eels.