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Live Eels
- Thread starter Manomet
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glostamon
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If you have a lil' free time,try this.
Get minnow trap & set it in a brackish saltmarsh estuary.
Be sure you have choosen a clandestine location (nothing worse then being pillaged or loosin a trap).
Aquire some bait,I find a McDonald's burger (dollar menu) works best for bait ,but oily leftovers (porkchops & lasagna) will yield.
Set the trap w/ "burger bait" before the first daylight high tide. If you have a decent location it will fill up w/minnows
Leave the minnows in the trap overnight (live bait works best).Eels are nocturnal & will enter the trap at night to feed on the minnows
Check trap the next morning & throw em' on a hook by the dozen .
Get minnow trap & set it in a brackish saltmarsh estuary.
Be sure you have choosen a clandestine location (nothing worse then being pillaged or loosin a trap).
Aquire some bait,I find a McDonald's burger (dollar menu) works best for bait ,but oily leftovers (porkchops & lasagna) will yield.
Set the trap w/ "burger bait" before the first daylight high tide. If you have a decent location it will fill up w/minnows
Leave the minnows in the trap overnight (live bait works best).Eels are nocturnal & will enter the trap at night to feed on the minnows
Check trap the next morning & throw em' on a hook by the dozen .
richc
NES Member
Jeez... I was hoping you'd say leave the eels there one more night and the trap would be full of stripers the next morning!
Reminds me of an old three stooges routine where Curly is fishing and keeps catching progressively bigger fish. He says something like "Go back and get your father" as he throws the smaller fish back...
pj150
NES Member
20 eels? Awesome. Saved yourself about 30 bucks in bait right there.
Any size to the eels? The ones I usually get <12" don't do very well as I need to stuff weights in them to get any casting distance.
Any size to the eels? The ones I usually get <12" don't do very well as I need to stuff weights in them to get any casting distance.
Eels are now $2.50 at the water front ( only place I found them) in Plymouth. We circle hook them and toss them over, they swim away and do all the rest. Most are around 12" but some get up to 18" or so, we use them first.
No I am going to try that next,last night only yielded 3 but 2 were 16" +. Three of us went out today and landed 5 between 30 -42" with about 6 more between 24 and 28. Beautiful weather and non stop action!
In God We Trust
NES Member
I know this probably does not help much, but I used to catch eels all the time at Jenny pond and sell them to old timers for bait. Just a worm on a hook and I could get a dozen in a few hours.
Titan
Banned
I'm VERY jealous.
We are hooked. The eel catching has slowed down so I am having to spread out the search, eel river has to strong a current on 3a for me. We ( my wife and neighbor) went out sunday and my wife landed a 42" bass and then the neighbor got one the same size only fatter. I had to watch.and drive the boat. Made a net after loosing two @ the boat and won't go out without that again. Takes the worry out of that last bit at the boat. Best year we have ever had for large bass and it's not done yet. Sorry to spout but there have been a lot of schoolies with few keepers over the years, it's a nice change.
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