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Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
one taste's like a goodyear tire the other taste's like the real thing.
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I don't know...I think those ledgerunners taste pretty darn good. Live eels are a little to slick for my palatte.
actually, as much as I love casting plugs, live eels are probably the perfect surfasters striper bait. They stay alive and are easy to keep. They cast good enough to fish like a plug. Simple rig. Boat or shore. deep or shallow. It allows you to fish bait like a plug without lead nor tending the bottom picking weed and crabs off your offering. Comm guys out this way fish 8 rods at a time all eels, when a pod passes by it is a chineese fire drill.
While I would rather fish plugs from the shore my largest fish have come on eels. But I think this could change in the coming years. In the past, plugs were pretty crude. Today we have perfectly balanced works of art and plastics that look as real as a real fish and swimmer better then most fish, and bunker spoons the size of a keeper fluke and braid line and better hooks and terminal tackle.
Also I think the profile of a big storm at times could fool a cow esp if she has her eyes peeled for herring or bunker. I would give it even odds that the next record falls for a plastic or custom plug as a live bait. Bait is proably still king, but with the outlook for eels and fresh bunker...you better start working with plastics.
(Also, I know a few "purist" surfcasters that shun bait (or boats) of anykind and consider it very unsportsmanlike to fish an eel. )
(ps Your membership in the "50" club has lapsed, (as has mine
) ...In order to keep your membership in this club you need to get a 50 EACH SEASON. Also, please send in your back dues asap .
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