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Chef I have fished with two guides who specialize in 3 waying, one chunks bait the other fishes eels. The way Mako Mike describes it is the way to do it from the boat, when fishing deep water with a strong current. Both of these guys were commercial guys at one time or another. The key is to drop the weight to the bottom, and the reel up a couple of turns. You want to keep the sinker just off the bottom. Hold your rod at about a 45 degree angle, when a fish hits the eel, you will feel light tap-tap. Drop your tip into the water, this will feed the eel to the striper, count to 5 and set the hook. In some areas you may get away with 2 oz, but you may need to use up to 8oz of weight depending on how fast the drift is, you want that line straight up and down. Also every once in awhile drop you tip to see if you are on the bottom.
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