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Conger Fishing – Conger Eels

Our Conger fishing trips target the bigger Conger Eels without having too many anglers on the boat which would reduce your chances of hooking or landing the personal best you are looking for. So if you want to catch our hardest fighting sea fish book a trip on Grey Viking out of Brighton and we’ll take you to the wrecks that the biggest Conger live on!

Many articles on the web cover Conger Fishing in detail but often leave you put off by sounding complicated. It isn’t! If you fancy catching a Conger Eel it’s as simple as booking onto one of our Conger Trips and even hiring our tackle and letting us organise bait so you can just turn up on the day without any further thought or preparation.

But if you are bringing your own tackle or simply want to understand more about how to fish for Conger – read on!

Latin Name: Conger Conger

Targeting Congers

If we’re going to catch a big Conger we have to target the places they live and quite simply the bigger specimens are found on wrecks in the English Channel, so Brighton is the obvious port from which to target Congers on a wreck fishing trip , with literally hundreds of wrecks within easy range of Brighton Marina. It’s down to the Skipper to put you on the right wreck and position the boat correctly to maximise your chances of catching that big Conger Eel, which is why you should book with us! We are also likely to catch Cod and Ling alongside Conger so there’s plenty to target. Congers are caught all year round but we specifically target them during the peak months of June to November.

On Grey Viking we’ve had Congers in the 90lb class with fish in the 35lbs to 70lb class caught regularly. Without doubt there are specimens to over 100lbs down there so the fish of a lifetime is certainly on the cards.

Conger Fishing Tackle, Rigs and Bait

When it comes to Conger Fishing your tackle should be simple yet robust. Lets look at Rods, Reels, terminal tackle, rigs and bait for Conger Fishing:

Conger Rods

A rod in the 30lb class is considered to be the best all round option for Conger if you are fishing for sport but if you are holding out for a 100lb plus Conger or seeking a record then a 50lb class stand up stick is the way to go.

Conger Reels

Don’t skimp on a reel for Conger Fishing, it’s far more important than the rod! Tried and tested reels include Penn Senator 4/0 size and Shimano TLD Lever Drag in the 20 or 25 size. AVET reels have gained a very good reputation in recent years too. On Grey Viking we carry and use such reels ourselves. Lever drags, such as found on the Shimano and AVET reels, can be useful but the most important factor is the reel must be strong and RELIABLE with a good drag !!

Conger Terminal Tackle and Rigs

You should spool up your reel with 30 to 50lb line to match the class of your rod and braid is an advantage over mono in the deep water we fish. With braid you can feel every twitch and get away with using less lead too. If you are using braid ALWAYS use a rubbing leader of around 80lb nylon mono and about 2 rod lengths.

As for rigs, keep your tackle simple! Use a slider boom then a bead followed by a STRONG swivel (a crane type 4/0 is about right). Tie your hook length snood to this swivel. As a starting point your hook length should be around 5 feet long (1.5 metres) and should be comprised of around 150lbs mono.  Simple eh!! If you are hardcore specimen hunting add another 4/0 swivel at the end, then about 12″ of 250lb mono, then  your hook.

Regarding hooks, use an 8/0 to 10/0 size O’Shaughnessy hook- simple! Please try to avoid using stainless steel hooks as they wont rust out of a deep hooked fish.

Bait For Congers

For Congers there are really on 3 baits to consider! Cuttle Fish, Mackerel Flapper or Pouting. In our experience most Conger fall to Cuttle and Mackerel bait but many anglers swear by using Pout so really it’s up to you and use what you feel confident with. We can reserve Cuttle baits for you ad we catch our Mackerel and Pouting on the day.

Wrecking Tactics

The skipper will choose the best wreck for the day based upon his experience. He will drop the anchor and the skill is ensuring that the boat settles in exactly the right position just uptide of the wreck. Once the skipper is happy that the boat has settled correctly you drop your baits to the bottom.

It’s a long way down – typically 60 metres (200 feet) so you’ll need the correct amount of lead to hold bottom. This will typically be 12oz to 1.5lb depending how much tide is running. A a rule of thumb it should be just enough lead that your line sits at 45 degrees from the boat, going back towards the wreck. If it streams out horizontally you need more lead and if its goes straight down you are using too much (or the tide is slack). Sometimes it pays to trot your lead down the tide so that your bait ends up even closer to the wreck.

Your baits will now be sitting just in front of the wreck and the scent trail of the big baits we use will encourage the Congers to come and investigate. It’s important to use a big hook and present the bait correctly with a well exposed hook point. If the hook is masked by the bait you are far less likely to connect with a bite.

The bite from a Conger can be surprisingly subtle, sometimes just a slight twitch on the rod tip. Hold your rod and pay out a little bit of line. If you feel another twitch wind down hard and lift into the Conger. Fish on ! The Conger’s first instinct will be to head for the sanctuary of the wreck so hold on tight and try not to give too much line and ensure your drag is set correctly!

Once the fish is away from the wreck you can take your time, pump and wind keeping the line taught but allowing the Conger to take line if you need to. Eventually your prize will surface and the skipper will T-Bar the Conger at the side of the boat or use a specialist landing net to bring the Conger aboard if you want it weighed and photographed. The days of gaffing Congers are long gone and we return all Eel’s in the name of conservation.

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Centuries ago, sailors told stories of mythical beasts that dwelled in the oceans. They put no names to these beasts. Modern day sea anglers tell their tales of monsters lurking in the sunless fathoms of our coastal waters. They have names for these monsters. They call them “conger eels”. 

The conger eel can grow to spectacular proportions. Specimens from boats fishing over wrecks have been landed conger eels of more than 40kg. 

Despite its enormous size and aggressive appearance, the conger eel is a shy creature and hastily retreats to its lair when threatened, the fish is coloured grey along the back and its belly is silver-yellow. It has teeth and powerful jaws for catching and holding prey, the natural diet of conger eel includes fish, lobster and squid.

Places to Fish

The conger eel is found all around the coast of Britain. It favours wrecks, reefs and rough, rocky habitats. During the hours of darkness they tend to swim in shallower waters closer to the shore.

Conger eels are heavy, powerful fish, we will be using a well built boat rods and a sturdy multiplier reels with plenty of heavy duty fishing line, large weights will be used to keep the bait deep in the water.

A general rule followed by anglers is the bigger the fish you’re after, then, the bigger the bait you need, this rule certainly applies to conger eel fishing, but something that I have learnt over the years is that big baits do catch big fish, whereas smaller baits will catch big and small fish at the same time.  

One of the most successful baits used for conger is freshly caught mackerel. Made into a “flapper”, this is an entire mackerel with the backbone and guts removed, the side fillets of the mackerel flap around in the swell of the tide this movement resembles an injured or vulnerable fish and will prove irresistible to a hungry predator, mackerel being an oily fish and when cut up and placed on the hook will emit a pungent odour that will attract predators.

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A conger's great strength, sharp teeth, ability to swim backward, and propensity for remaining in or near cover make it a formidable foe.

How to identify a Conger

The conger is a large eel known to reach a maximum length of 9 ft and a weight of 143 lbs. It is easily distinguished from the moray eel by the presence of pectoral fins, which the moray lacks. It also has a longer snout, its upper jaw is slightly longer than its lower jaw, the head is narrower in appearance, and the dorsal fin does not extend quite as far forward as in the moray.

Where to catch Conger

The conger is native to the eastern Atlantic; Norway and Iceland to Senegal including the Mediterranean and western Black Sea. It can also be found in the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to North Florida but it is most plentiful from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. They inhabit relatively shallow waters in the vicinity of cover material such as rocks, reefs, pier pilings, and especially shipwrecks or other submerged objects suitable as hiding places. The following list includes additional details on where to catch this fish:

how to catch Conger

Anglers often target congers with stout tackle and strong lines, which are needed to pull larger fish from their cover once hooked. Methods include still fishing using live fish, squid, crabs or cut baits. Because it remains in sheltered places, it is almost exclusively an anglers’ fish since it is highly unlikely to be taken in a net. They should be considered dangerous when boated or speared as their teeth are strong and sharp. Congers are considered an excellent food fish but are not a popular table fare in the United States. The meat is known to be very delicate and flaky. The following are fishing methods used to catch this fish:

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Conger Eels Fishing Brighton Marina

The wrecks off the Coast hold some excellent catch ranging in sizes from 30 to 100 lbs and our Conger Fishing Brighton Marina is a 'great day out' for friend and all the family. You can see from some of the photographs that we have caught many Conger from 40 to 96 lbs. These fish are excellent sport and probably one of the most powerful fish that we catch in our waters. They are big, mean fighting, machines that do not know the meaning of the word 'QUIT'. Hook into one of these over a deep-water wreck and the fun will start. Get the fish away from the wreck and into open water and it should be yours. But, when you have a large conger on you will know all about it, as people will tell you who have qualified into the British Conger club, with Eels of 40 lbs. and over. Some of the larger Eels sometimes get the better of the most experienced anglers that is probably why they keep coming back time after time, to catch that big one that got away

Conger Eel Fishing Trips

The first and second world war wrecks off the French coast provide excellent Conger Fishing and the vast majority of these wrecks are outside the reach of most usual day charters. On these wrecks, the Fishing is virtually untapped and the Conger can grow very large and will test an angler’s tackle and ability to the limit. Fishing close to the French coasts will usually entail the anglers booking one of the speciality day trips, or even a two day Conger hunt

The Tackle: These fish require some serious equipment. Ideally you will need a good quality boat rod of 50 to 80 lbs. Line class and 4/0 or 6/0 reel loaded with good main line of 50 to 60 lbs. Terminal tackle should consist of a short mono-filament trace of 250 to 300 lbs, crimped to 10/0 hooks and some 4/0 snap swivels and a leader of 100lbs mono at least 10 ft long to enable the fish to be controlled at the boat. A butt pad is essential, as these are very powerful fish and the fight could last some time

Required Bait for  Conger Eel Fishing : Ideally the bait for  Conger Eel  should be freshly caught Mackerel either fished whole or prepared into flappers, head and guts sections or just filleted. Cuttlefish are excellent bait and these can be provided in advance. Other small bait fish such as pouting will also catch these hard fighting fish

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Boat fishing for conger eel

Only the freshwater eel can be confused with the sea living conger eel, and when boat fishing this is a highly unlikely scenario. The difference between the conger and the freshwater eel is that the conger has a longer upper jaw and the river eel has a prominent lower jaw. The river eel also has rounded pectoral fins whereas the conger’s pectoral fins are pointed. Also on the conger the dorsal fin begins just rearwards of the pectoral fin, but on the river eel the dorsal begins half way back along the body.

The colouration of conger differs depending on what type of ground they are living over. On sand the conger will be a light to semi-dark brown, but in deeper water conger take on a light to dark grey colouring with a creamy brown to grey white belly colouring. Occasionally over reefs conger will be much darker like a slate grey.

Conger reputedly breed only once and congregate way out in the tropical Atlantic in depths as deep as 4000-metres. There seems to be no significant scientific information on whether conger have a definite breeding season. The larvae is flat and transparent and lives near the sea surface drifting slowly inwards towards continental Europe and transforming in to the recognised eel shape over a 1 to 2 year period.

Their adult diet consists of small fish such as pouting, poor cod , whiting , codling and small flatfish, also crabs, lobsters, squid and cuttlefish.

WHEN AND WHERE TO FISH Conger populate the whole of the UK and Irish coastline, but are also found as far north as the southeast side of Iceland and southern Norway, also southward taking in the whole of the Mediterranean.

They are particularly predominant on the wrecks inside the English Channel, also from those in the Irish Sea and over rough ground off the Welsh and Scottish coast, also from the southern and west coast of Ireland. Without doubt, untapped conger fishing exists on the North Sea wrecks, and from the wrecks off the Northern Ireland coast.

They are available to anglers throughout the full twelve month period. There is no set time of year for a big conger, though many conger specialists prefer the warmer late summer period for the bigger fish, however many big conger have been caught either side of Christmas when angling pressure on the wrecks is least.

Conger choose to live in heavy rough ground close to shore and can often be found in surprisingly shallow water of just a few feet deep below the low water mark. In fact, on the biggest spring tides, small conger to 10lbs or so can sometimes be found hidden under rocks completely dry waiting for the tide to return.

The biggest conger are found living amongst the debris of deep water wrecks where their vast bodies can find holes and cracks within the structure to hide. They lay just with their heads at the mouth of their home, then pounce as unsuspecting food fish pass by.

On reef and wreck ground, conger tend to be fished for during the slack water period of neap tides, certainly the two hours either side of low and high water are the most quoted. This is good advice when fishing fast flowing, deep water, but on some wrecks the reverse is true. If the tide run is less strong overall, then modern anchoring techniques can be used during the bigger spring tides to position the boat and baits well above the wreck and the tide ride run be used to drift the smell back in to the wreck structure to lure the eels from their home and out in to clear ground where they can be fought easier.

CONGER TACKLE On reef ground a 20 to 30lb outfit comprising something like a Penn TRQ100 or Shimano TLD 20/30 half loaded with mono and top shotted with the appropriate braid, then matched to a supple tipped but quickly stiffening middle action rod with a good stiff butt to give maximum leverage is the top choice.

For wreck fishing, the 30lb outfit is okay for average eels, but for the very big eels it’s necessary to choose a Penn TRQ200 loaded with 50 to 80lb braid, or the Shimano TLD 30 loaded with 50lb plus braid. Rods need to be a true 30/50 action such as the Penn Waveblaster 30/50 or the Shimano or other equivalent make.

HOW TO MAKE A BOAT CONGER EEL RIG

HOW TO MAKE A HALF FILLET MACKEREL BAIT

TOP TIP 1 Mono line is okay for shallower reef fishing, but in deeper water the sensitivity of braid gives you better information feedback through to the rod and hands as the eel eats the bait. Remember though that the eel will also feel line tension more and can spook easier, so a delicate touch by the angler is needed.

TOP TIP 2 Even huge eels can be shy biters. They often just “pluck” lightly on the rod tip as they gently inch the bait back in to their mouths. As you feel the eel pluck on the rod tip, allow just a couple of feet of free line to run off the reel which occurs as the eel accepts the bait and moves away. Strike only as the eel takes that free line then tightens against the rod tip.

TOP TIP 3 When the eel is hooked keep the pressure on and get the eel up in to more open water. It will then realise its in trouble and often powers back for the bottom. Give it line grudgingly as if it can it will make the safety of the reef or wreck and be lost. As an eel tires it will try and swim backwards rather than diving.

TOP TIP 4 When targeting conger it’s always worth having a second rod out with a luminous shrimp rig on baited with small strips of mackerel. This will catch pouting, poor cod and small whiting which the conger are naturally feeding on and these will often out fish fresh mackerel. Again fish them as either flappers or half fillet bodies with the hook in through the jaws.

TOP TIP 5 Squid and cuttlefish are also good baits for big wreck conger. When using squid, don’t position the hook in the body leaving the head and tentacles to dangle free. Conger are adept at chopping the tentacles off but leaving the squid body intact and avoiding the hook.

TOP TIP 6 Big eels also demand the use of a butt pad as they can apply massive pressure through the rod which the butt pad spreads and minimises. Some anglers advocate shoulder harnesses, but this is rarely necessary.

TOP TIP 7 If conger bites are hard to come by, try changing over to a lighter lead weight, just enough to hold bottom but light enough to drop back a few feet when the rod tip is lifted. Periodically inch the bait back towards you a few feet, then drop it back. This simple tactic can often induce a shy conger to take the bait.

TOP TIP 8 Just like ling, conger will also often take baits better if you slide a luminous yellow muppet over them. Conger are inquisitive and will home in on anything luminous, plus the movement of the muppet legs also excites the conger as the bait rolls in the tide.

TOP TIP 9 Conger are best unhooked using a T Bar. Simply slide the T Bar down the line and over the hook shank so it sits in the inner bend of the hook, pull the line down at a 90 degree angle to the fish and “bounce” the hook free using the natural weight of the fish. This does the eel no harm and will free even the most awkward of hooks.

TOP TIP 10 Conger fishing can be hectic with all the congers seeming to switch on to feeding at once. It pays to have at least a dozen traces ready made as you will lose too much fishing time trying to retie hooks on to traces and retackle up after a snapping out. Also making traces in the comfort at home means they are tied properly. When eels are coming in all around you, it’s far too easy to panic and create a weak trace that can cost you a big fish.

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