CATCHING EELS TONIGHT
 

After spending 10 minutes trying to read the thread posted by luds:rotf2: I figured I'd share. Something to do on a hot night with a few cold beers.

Get a $15 minnow trap and toss a stabbed up bunker in it. Then find some brackish water with a muddy bottom. Toss the trap out or drop it off a dock or bridge. I am usually in about 3 feet of water. Drink a beer or 2 and let the trap soak. Then take a small rod with a double hooked scup rig and bait it with squid or sandworm pieces. Drop right on the side of the minnow trap and catch yourself a bunch of choice eels. If you don't have a trap you can use an onion bag or something similar. You will catch 95% of the eels on the rod and not in the small trap anyway. Also bring a towel and not just a rag because when a 3ft snake comes out of the 80 degree water it can be hell. They will wrap your whole arm up to your arm-pit and slime the crap out of you. So easy a cave man can do it:)

yeah, that thread should be closed.

i think i may go the trap and chicken liver route tonight and try my luck. never tried it before although it seems like going large with the rod and reel set up is more likely and I need some skins.

Always wanted try catching my own, especially to get some bigger ones for skin plugs. May give this a shot over the weekend.

Jay knows his stuff.

BTW Jay, I need a 2 footer with a nasty disposition for tomorrow night.

thats some good advice, I used to have a blast catching eels as a kid, havent done it in ages.

Got about 3 dozen with most of them being horsecocks the 2 nights ago. Incoming brackish water, squid. Beer and a lil vsop :)
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Chicken parts work good in the trap too. Pete I got ya covered just bring some big hooks:uhuh:

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Had one once wrap up my arm. Just starting to get over it now. Ill remember that night the rest of my life.

Imagine how my wife feels.

:rotf2::rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

:biglaugh::biglaugh:

gypped

Anyone ever taken them offshore? Sounds like a no-brainer since the tuna gorge themselves on sandeels large and small. Load the live-well with a sh*tload of big rattlesnake sized eels. Maybe run a couple deep, a couple flat lines and maybe a couple on top with balloons? I assume if there are bluefin, yellowfin, mahi....etc in the neighborhood they are going to take a nice big eel drifting helplessly in the blue water.

Another useless post by RI Jimmy....

Bronko, that sounds like a damn good idea. going to need some bigguns to poke a 14/0 demon circle through them no? Livewell full of 2# eels and bluefish :(

When you guys trap your own wht do you do about purging them before introducing them to your clean water. Ie how long do you sit them in diff water to get rid of any poop etc?
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A three foot eel???? you should have released that fish, think of all the baby eels it would make
what about the future
you kill those big ones then all those glass eels won't make their way to Japan.


take a picture and let it go for our kids future:uhuh:
























































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Thanks westport found that interesting. I threw some eels on the south side of the cape for the first time during the last bright moon, and was curious how and where to catch them, not to mention they're not so cheap. Had a blast though and i plan on slingin' some this weekend in the same spot

Yeah, hard to compete with your "mojo" thread, that's some good stuff
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Smaller blue crabs invaded my spot. Only 5 eels caught. One I let go one I gave to my friends son for a pet and the other 3 went in the tank filled with about 2 feet of water. When I went down this am to check on them they were doing great in 1 inch of water!!!!!!!!!!!! The pumped must have moved tossing the hose out of the tank and dumping 50 gallons onto my basement floor:fury:

eels are out of style, where have you guys been

Watched Sauerkraut try this 20 years ago for giants. Ended up with the most impressive eelknot I ever saw.