EEL Flamm A South Wales friend had not long before
told me how eels used to be caught with a bundle of worms on a hookless line, when I carne across a similar method in The Driffield Angler, an old book packed with sporting wisdom. The author, Alexander Macintosh of Great Driffield, told how to bob for eels with a stiff pole and several hanks of worms threaded cad ,to, end on silk or. worsted. He also gave details of eel fishing with a bale of hay,or a bundle of brushwood stuffed with the gets of chickens. The bundle would be lowered hit° the river at night and drawn up in the ,mqrnine with the eels inside devouring the feast., That, the hookless method first mentioned was, widely used is made plain by a letter from north of the border, where Mr. Harkness, of Dumfries, remembers eels being caught in the Nith sixty years ago. 'The bunch of worms was, I seem to remember, called a sap,' he remarks, 'and two or more eels might be brought up at one cast.'
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