Each surfaces from its dive with what looks like a sand eel.
In my rush to get going, I had brought only small flies intended to resemble sand eels.
A sand eel danced out of the way as we lolloped on to the beach.
One of the best baits is a sand eel, either fresh or frozen.
It is also known as the lesser sand eel.
The bass in the channel were feeding on tiny sand eels.
I offered them a dozen different flies, but they were intent on the real thing, tiny sand eels.
Common sand eel have an elongated body, with a rounded cross section.
Frozen sand eels can be effective, and little mackerel are even better.
They will eat a wide range of fish but their commonest prey is the sand eel.
