sand lance
sand launce
sand eel
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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.