Interesting article in there this month about eels.

Interesting article in there this month about eels.

Norman Benson and son of James Pond, W. Tisbury, supplied generations of Island stripermen, and decades of Derby participants in their era. So, I learned eeling from the best! I had the privilege to make pots and pull pots with them.

I thought it laughable that a resident striperman would actually buy eels rather than get their own...until these last few years. I tried once again two weeks ago: two pots in each of three different, formerly proven and abundant locations...ONE EEL huge enough for a skinplug and that was it. Now I think that buying them at $2.00 apiece is actually a BARGAIN, because they are no longer locally available. They are gone.

i read it today. Good article and great pics as always

I thought it was interesting, decline due to (among other things) predation by striped bass. The price for the "elvers" was:smash:.
I wonder who "harvests" them in Maine (said it was the only state that allows harvesting "glass eels" ? Also made me want to drive to Delaware to the "smoked eel shack".