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I have trapped eels for a couple of years and the best bait is indeed horseshoe crabs. I don't use them now they are used in medical applications they remove some blood and then they let them go so I don't want to waste a reusable resource (Guess commercial bass fishing is out for a career path). Beside its against the law. The next best solution is to use broken shell fish. Make friends with a fish market guy, get them to save the broken shell fish he cant sell. Put them in a five gallon bucket and crush them, put them in containers like empty cool whip containers freeze them and put them in the trap. This should keep you in eels for a while. And as a bonus you can some times get big enough eels to skin for skin plugs (save the white meat to eat or freeze for blue crab bait for the late summer.).
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