how do you canal jiggers store your rigged eelskin jigs when fishing and between trips? between trips, do they have to be kept frozen like plugs would be, do you salt them, store in brine? when fishing, do you just fire them into your bag/pocket? thanks.

In a tupperware container buried in Kosher salt and kept in refer.

How does the wife like that or maybe U sneak them in there so she don't seum .the girlfriend gave me a earfull the other night when she looked in my freeze. what is it with girls an snakes. I just told her make believe they are frozen steaks.:D

my freezer is half edibles, half eels. :D

Just put them in a Ziplock with salt in the refrig. No need to freeze skins.

I learned the hard way. Just put them in the tupperware container with the Kosher salt and into the fridge. Wife HATED the smell......and me for that matter.

I then took the tupperware (sandwich sized) and put them into a small tupperware shoe box along with an open box of Baking Soda. No smell anymore......from the skins at least :smash:

dont forget the moist paper towel ,which should be periodically replaced.

Originally posted by Saltheart
Just put them in a Ziplock with salt in the refrig. No need to freeze skins. i only freeze the plugs that have skins on them already. that was the only way i could hold off the rust. do you store rigged skins, on plugs or jigs, this way?

The only thing I freeze is whole eels saved for rigging..

Salt and fridge. And I have my own Fridge and Frezzer in the basement for my stuff. No wife problems here!! :p

I just think that colder is better when I put them away for the season I don't use as much salt an put in the freezer skins jigs along with dead eels for riggin thoose I store in a ziplock with water in the freezer.The eels in the salt don't really freeze but the hooks still rust in time.I also have a coupla 1 gal mayo jars with salt brine that I keep things in.Most of the time when I go out I rig a coupla freshies as I always thought they outproduced the salted ones they are mostly backups.

The salt is to keep the skins dried out. It sucks any moisture out. I think freezing will eventually break down the skin fibers.

I've kept skins salted in a ziplock refrigerated and used them the next season with very much luck.
You can't find large eels in the spring. Early spring you need fat skins so you can run them short too look like a herring.