Here's a how-to I put together using my GoPro. Enjoy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKomV_fmfNk

John, great video! I watched it a few times this weekend after seeing it posted up on the SJ site. How big was that trained fish? :)

John, great video! I watched it a few times this weekend after seeing it posted up on the SJ site. How big was that trained fish? :)

It was mighty nice of that fish to hit in the daylight and stay on the surface almost the whole time. It was around 26 pounds.

nice ;)

great vid

Thank you

I've been thinking about trying this. How many nights can you get out of an eel before he starts getting ripe? Thanks! and great videos btw

I've been thinking about trying this. How many nights can you get out of an eel before he starts getting ripe? Thanks! and great videos btw

Assuming no bluefish and the eel doesn't come apart from catching bass, you could get 3 nights for sure if you keep getting it back in the refrigerator or on ice soon after you're done fishing.

Thanks for sharing and showing that it works. :)

I used to go to Montauk for Thanksgiving weekend many many years in a row. I would always rig lots of eels cause they are deadly that time of year. Several times I caught multiple fish on the rigged eel in November then put the things back into ziplock bags and froze them. i would take them out and star catching with them again in mid to late May the following year.

One blue and its over.

I find most bass spit the eel itself out after getting hooked (eel is hanging outside the mouth during the fight. Also I rig using 2 hooks and bass hooked with the tail hook are often foul hooked on the outside of the their jaw or under the chin , etc) so there is little damage ever by bass.

Awesome video....I always have a tendency to twitch to much....good to see what a Twitch is supposed to be

I used to go to Montauk for Thanksgiving weekend many many years in a row. I would always rig lots of eels cause they are deadly that time of year. Several times I caught multiple fish on the rigged eel in November then put the things back into ziplock bags and froze them. i would take them out and star catching with them again in mid to late May the following year.

One blue and its over.

I find most bass spit the eel itself out after getting hooked (eel is hanging outside the mouth during the fight. Also I rig using 2 hooks and bass hooked with the tail hook are often foul hooked on the outside of the their jaw or under the chin , etc) so there is little damage ever by bass.

I freeze in ZipLoc bags too. All of the rigging eels I've used this year, including the one in the video, were frozen last fall. I've caught a pair of 40-pound plus fish on them. The bass don't care about freezer-burn.

Sweet video!

Thanks for posting this John, I was wondering how to properly work a rigged eel. I never had much success with riggies, this outta help

Riggies were the key last night. Nothing huge, but some striped action under a BRIGHT moon was nice just the same.
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I rigged one yesterday for the first time, and forgot it when i went fishing. It came out pretty good, now to see how the fish like it.

very nicely done. compliments.

Very nicely done! Thankyou very much.

Great video. Thanks for sharing.
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