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Its very rare to lose a bass once hooked with an eel with a single hook.Usually,the line breaks.
Here is what I think happend.Its very important to let the fish run with the eel long enough for her to get the eel down deep!! The best are the ones that are hooked right in the middle of the throat.Most likely you set up on the fish to early and your hook was only holding the fish in the lip.Once a bass hits,let her run to at least a ten count then set your hook hard and set it a couple of times.You want that hook down deep in the throat.The only way that fish is getting off is if your line breaks.
How many times have you landed a bass and saw the hook only hanging from a thread of the lip?? This is a sure sighn that you set up on the fish to fast and didnt let her run long enough.
How do you know? Once the bass hits she runs,Then you almost always feel the fish stop and then run again,that second run is when you want to set that hook home!!
One other possible problem that does happen now and then is that the fish has the hook in the throat but, during the fight the hook pulls free and rehooks in the lip on the way out giving you a bad situation but still,this is rare as long as you let the fish run long enough and then you set the hook with authority.
Use 6/0 mustad 94150 short shank live bait hooks they seem to work the best out of anything I have ever used.I have tries the gamagatsu and have acually had them bend open on a good fish.Make sure the hook is honed to a razor sharp point with a small mill file,I always have one with me.It insures you get a solid and deep hook set..
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