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Originally posted by Joe
I'm pretty sure that was developed by one of the Jamestown Clarke's
They used to fish that east side from Beavertail, in....
The countdown method works very well over there - in the big water you get on the east side of J-town, an eel bob makes perfect sense.
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The Clark eel bob was developed and sold by one of the J-town Clarks - I want to say it was Arthur but I may be wrong. He held the RI state record for striped bass with a fish that he caught in '30's and the mount of that fish still hangs in the Beavertail lighthouse, if memory serves.
He was a eel fisherman of some note, kept a bath-tub full of eels in his basement at all times from what I've been told - although I don't know what Mrs. Clark's reaction was to that
Maybe Fish_Eye will see this and chime in here - he and I talked about this at length ages ago and he knows a great deal more than I do on it - if I remember right he researched it at one point and may have some interesting details for you.
Hmmmm.....I'm trying to remember if we were under the influence of bloooberries at the time...
....it's possible....