the eels are in trouble and as a new year's resolution, i am not going to use them anymore, or at least until I hear that they have started to recover-
heres a good link about the decline in eel populations (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/warning2004.html)

and heres a good article about eels in general (http://www.nanfa.org/fif/Ameel.htm)

been in trouble for awhile. I remember an article in 97 speaking about the decline.

Hope everybody had the forethought to freeze or brine their deceased eels from last season....

This could be the year of the riggie - or eel bob with a nice skin on it....

Freezers loaded:D . Got a nice holdover last night on a nice freezer burned eel:devil: . Gonna have to fish more sluggos this season. No rig, no bob:cool:

Originally posted by Crafty Angler
Hope everybody had the forethought to freeze or brine their deceased eels from last season....

This could be the year of the riggie - or eel bob with a nice skin on it....

When you're up my way this coming season you'll have to school me in proper eel fishing now that I have a setup more suited to that type of fishing;) .

Originally posted by Eben
the eels are in trouble and as a new year's resolution, i am not going to use them anymore, or at least until I hear that they have started to recover-
heres a good link about the decline in eel populations (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/warning2004.html)

and heres a good article about eels in general (http://www.nanfa.org/fif/Ameel.htm)

I'm with you Eben. Never really fished eels that much so it will be more sluggos for me.

Originally posted by basswipe
When you're up my way this coming season you'll have to school me in proper eel fishing now that I have a setup more suited to that type of fishing;) .

Ya gotta pass the eel agility test first, BW....:hihi:

Hey, I'd be happy to - I'll see ya as soon as those buck-toothed beauties show up in the Spring :hee:

I guess it's time to jump on the Needle wagon:D

Originally posted by Crafty Angler
I'll see ya as soon as those buck-toothed beauties show up in the Spring :hee:

:D

Apparently the glass eel is a highly sought after delicacy in some countries when the research sceintist say they aren't coming back he was right.

Time to rig up the mink skin dannies... right spence? :hihi:

i never fish with eels anyway im a plug and tin type of guy

Originally posted by Eben
Time to rig up the mink skin dannies... right spence? :hihi:
Only if you cut the legs off...otherwise I'd recommend a wide body pikie :cool:

-specne

:hihi:

Hope everybody had the forethought to freeze or brine their deceased eels from last season....
Shoot, I still got a dozen in the livewell :D