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Welcome aboard Lou - just like clamdigger said - use the tube & worm. Practice getting it down as low as you can without constantly hanging up. If you are not occasionally hanging up, your not fishing deep enough. You should run at least 2 at the same time. One scraping near the bottom and one midway in the water column. If you can safely run 4 - vary them between the near bottom and half way up the coulmn. Fish tem near and over structure and the biggest mistake - trolling too fast. - That's about as much as can be said in one paragraph. There are a lot of little tricks as far as weigting, speed, working structure which are aquired after time on the water doing it...
Another GREAT consideration for boaters getting into bass (real bass - not those freshwater types) fishing, is to go out on a charter that works the area YOU want to fish or some will take you out on your own boat and show you how.... Any charter skipper can take his fare out to Block and score fish, but you won't learn as much if someone with SKILZ puts you on fish in your own waters...
GS has the perfect boat in the sense the can do most of his manuevring with a saltwater electric trolling motor - if your boat is under 22 feet and open- you may want to consider that for next year.
As far as eels go - this late in the season for fishing during the day, I would not try to switch & learn eels if I were you. Save that for next year as now, you're in crunch time - go with the tube-n-worm....
Later,
John
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