Eel doll
The eel doll is a fishing tackle that is mainly used to catch eels . These are unguarded drift fishing rods that fish individually . These consist of a float known as a doll , which used to be made of rushes or cork , but is now mostly made of other materials with good buoyancy properties, as well as a fishing line wound on it with a hook, the length of which is usually about twice the depth of the water.
Eel pupae, equipped with a bait (fish or earthworms ), are usually released in a light wind in the evening in a body of water in such a way that they drift towards a clear bank or a bay, where they are collected the next day. They cannot therefore be used in rivers. Since the eel pupa brushes a larger area of water, the catching success is significantly greater than with the fixed eel line . In a five-year study carried out in the 1950s, the average catch weight per 100 hooks was 2.9 kilograms of eel compared to 0.7 kilograms per 100 hooks when caught with eel lines.
Eel fishing with drift rods is prohibited in many regions today.
literature
- Horst Müller: The eels. Life cycle and economic importance of migratory fish between sea and fresh water. In: The New Brehm Library. A. Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1975, pp. 148-151.
