1 ounce or half ounce rubber core sinker abou 2-3 ft above the eel itself.
Chef with the 3 way its hit or miss because: say for example you run your eel off the 3 way with 3 feet or flouro. The you run a bank sinker 3 oz or 2 oz on the other line, now the line for the weight has to be a bit longer that the 3 feet you're using for the eel, so the bass dont mouth the eel and drop it on the pick up. Fishing around the island we have had the best success in the past with the eel unweighted, although 3 waying did account for numerous bass in the 40's. We fishedthe with circle hooks and used them like plugs during the day and troll them at a drift at night. gami circles 5/0-7/0 to spro swivels. Im not sure if your buddy's boat is euipt with cannon clips (cannon makes the clip they're for downriggers Im pretty sure) What we would do, would be to letout 20-30yds of line, with the eel out there, rubber core three way or no weight. Then we would clip that to the cannon clip, we'd clip right to the outside edge of the cannon clip so the slightest tug would release the clip, then it was just a matter of reeling down, and waiting for the line to go taught(we used circles) I dont really think you'll need the weight unless you stop at the mud thing and the current is really crankin, aside from that you should be ok with no weight. The thing that sucks about the 3 way is that you'll also be fighting that 2 or 3 ounce weight when you're fighint a nice fish, and well if it THE ONE, it would suck to have that weight snag up on you and you loose a nice fish, so if you go with the 3 way, use a weaker lb test line than you main line, and leader. Hope this makes some sense and good luck bro konck em dead
and boat fish still wont count
