The Un-Killable eels
 

As anyone that knows me can attest, I am the master of killing eels. If I try and keep em alive, it seems they die within an hour.
Well, now that I am TRYING to kill them to rig them up, they won't friggin die. I had them in plastic bags for an hour.....still kickin'........I put them in an airtight plastic container for 2 hours.........still wouldn't die.......put em in a ziploc bag for another hour and the motha effer's still won't die..........what to do next???? Should probably just toss em in the cooler for 10 minutes and they'll be dead.......

ask them to pass health care and they will die

Put them in the freezer

cover them in salt then shut the bag.
5-min you can have an eel wake.

putting them in salt seems inhumane. Put them in the freezer and they'll be dead in a hour.

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Putting them in front of a Bluefish is inhumane :love:

throw a cigarett butt in the pail. takes about a n.y. minute.

Kosher salt is my method. Sticking a hook thru their eye is humane?

What's next?
 

HUMANE euthanization of all bait species prior to hooking so their human rights aren't violated??:confused:

Not saying be cruel or treat life with disrespect, but.....

Mikey:
Just put them in the freezer. They are dead in an hour

I have heard that exposure to tobacco kills them real quick, as Eddie suggests.

does skoal work?? :drool:

just run some hot tap water when you get home, put hot water into the bag they're in, twist it up tight and they'll expire within several minutes and you can get right on to rigging....

Show them a picture of Rosie O'Donnell and they will just commit suicide.

it also take off the slim so it's easier to rig them.:fishin:

[QUOTE=redlite;711080]As anyone that knows me can attest, I am the master of killing eels. QUOTE]

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freezer

If you put them in the freezer, make sure they are freeze solid.

I put some in the freezer once to kill them so I could rig them. I took them out when they were stiff and stuck a rigging needle up their vents and pulled dacron out their mouth - outside on the picnic table during the summer. They came back to life before I could finish with the head hooks - par-frozen was not enough.

threaten to take them fishing with me, they will die from boredom:smash:

as compared to hooking them down the throat and casting them for 20 minutes?

microwave.

I usually take one out of the bag and tie him to a chair. then I proceed to take the others out of the bag...... one at a time, and kill them....slowly and methodically, while the one in the chair watches...then I let him go so he can tell the others. :devil:


Could be worse....you could be putting a hook through their jaw and out their eye socket, then throwing them in the air and smacking them against the water....then drag them back, sometimes jerking violently, and do it to them all over again, sometimes making it last over an hour or more....and their only hope is that something eats them....but I see your point on the salt :hihi:

had the same experience.

Freezer seems like a better idea or even the salt. I'd stay away from scenting them with any tobacco product. That just seems counter productive.

How do your legs feel today Mike?

Hmmm first lesson I learned on a lobster boat... I smoke... God can still hear the voice echoing in my head..." DONT YOU EFFIN SMOKE THEM EFFIN THINGS WHILE YOUR DOING THE BAIT BOY.... THEY CAN SMELL THE S*(T ON THE BAIT......" So I dont think you want to throw some Skoal or Cope in there bad call... Think scent has more to do with things then people realize... Just my two cents...

Thanks for all the input folks.......Just left em in 3 plastic bags....inside a ziploc ......inside an airtight plastic container......theys dies in about an hour.
As far as the tobacco thing goes, people used to say that, but I spit tobacco juice on every eel I throw out there and the fish seem to like it. Who knows.

You can freeze them and they don't seem to suffer. Why cause them more pain than necessary. If there was another way to fish w/eels to catch fish rather than hooking them up through the eye, I'd do it.

I attest to the coming back to life bit. Had some left over eels toward the end of Nov. Decided to freeze them and rig them. After 3 days I had them in a bag getting defrosted to rig. I come back with the rigging materials and while I'm cutting some dacron I swear I hear a noise coming from the bag. Don't pay much atttention and continue to get ready. i hear the same noie and I say to myself, that can't be. Look in the bag and I see movement. Empty the bag in the bucket and lo and behold the freakin eels are "ALIVE". Didn't have the heart to kill them so I put them in the tank. They lived till the middle of December. Never used them so for their valiant effort to ward off death I rfeturn them back to the sea. So now when I freeze to kill I make sure they are not just stiff they are "DEAD".

Don't leave them in salt too long. I dumped salt on some last week then got side tracked with stuff around the house so I then put them in the refrigerator over night. The next day the salt had sucked all the water out of them and they were super dehydrated, pruned, stiff and useless. Unless bass like salt cured eels.