I think you're well into the hundreds of eels here... That's an @$$ load of skinning.

Chris, remember I was first to say I would take a dozen.:)

I bought One large eel at the fish market around Christmas time and paid 13.00 bucks for the one eel and then I had to skin it myself. Eels meant to eat are not cheap. The one eel was big enough for an a-40 but not for an cowboy. So it was big but not super huge. Might get a discount on a large order but it won't be cheep.skinning them to boot....$20.00 a skin.is what I suspect. I forget what I paid at macos a few years ago. But large ones were hard to find in that bucket.
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I'd be interested in a dozen or two.
K

Maco's mostly micros were around $2 last I bought em, but you would need to open em and splice 4 together to get em around a40's

How much are we talking for 6??? Id like to Skin a plug or 2 this year!

You guys get the sense that there is a viable business to be had here?

Did you eat the eel??? They are so yummy.
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Haha! Lol No I did not I froze the thing and then skinned it a few weeks ago. The thing was gross, and the eels I have had in sushi rolls I didn't enjoy. Eels will always be bait to me.
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I'd be interested in a few dozen.

You'll need a prehistoric eel for that "PIKE":rotf2:

I'd be interest in a dozen or so. I would be willing to meet up and skin them myself it that makes it easier. Seems like you have a lot of eels to eat at this point. I missed if you were planning to use the meat.

For something you don't hear much about, there's a lot of interest.
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There are lots of posts about eel skins and rigged eels although not so much lately.

The big use of skins for those buying from Mako is for skin jigs at the canal and those can be the smaller skins from the size eels we usually cast to stripers.

You might also find that people who use skins and have a supply source are pretty closed lipped about it.

I notice you guys are in Warren, RI and recall the trips to visit with BOB BRYDEN way back in the olden days. He was on the road alongside the Police Station, up the River a ways. Had only one leg but he was as swift around a skiff as most guys with two. Always talked about his days out "Coon" hunting, chasing through the woods at night!!!!
We would call ahead and pick up 300 or more 20 to 24 inch 'starved,thin' silver bellied and also 50 or so big eels, 36 inch size, fat as a Danny Plug.
We used them for Skin Plugs and I always towed a big eel when out swordfishing.
The old story was, "Big Bait, Big Fish" and that holds true!!!!
Bob would be over a hundred if alive but he did have a nephew that I think took over from him.
When Herring are around the Blue side out short skin works well. Don't try a big dark side out full length skin plug in the doldrums, you might catch a monster bass!

I would be interested in several.

Wow , what a blast from the past. How are you Chet? On occasion Smokey and I still talk about our night out on the "Nor-easter" :) great to hear from you.
Saltheart

skins are a well kept secret around chet's old stomping grounds. ;)

I'd go for a dozen or two. Anyone who hasn't seen an eel skin plug do its thing should. Indescribable.

by the way- smoked eels taste awesome

Hi SaltHeart and others. Yup, those were the days, back when. I have not been in a boat for 3 or more years. Legs let go and now just drive the Motor Home around the Country.
Stay Healthy..,Say "HI" to Smokey....

Id be intrested in some as well.

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Usually have my fish monger save me all the skins from eels he sells for Christmas Eve. I then brine and save in a big pickle jar in frig. However I did pick up one of Gary's Big Water eelskin plugs this winter and I am looking for a skin to fit that big boy! Need a skin at least 12'' with a 1.25" diameter.

I re-rigged my eel skins plugs sunday. I had ones that fit over the needlefish and Atom Jr. but no skin for the A40.

The real reason you don't hear much about them is because you can't get them. Why post about something you cannot get?

I think you opened up Pandora's box. By my count you need at least 100 dozen skins just to fill what the guys that posted want.

If I were you I would talk to one of the wholesale bait dealers like Tom's and see if they could supply you with that quantitiy. Then get a retail license and resell as a sideline business.

Come to think of it.....

Capt Chet:
Bob Smith, Cuttyhunk, used to have a live box of eels tied up near his boat. When skins were needed (skin plugs and tube rigs) he'd pull out about a dozen, tie them on a noose hunk from his shed on the dock and proceed to skin them. That's how I learned to skin my own.
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