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I have a couple of coolers that I made a cage out of using the green, vinyl coated rabbit wire from Home Cheap-o. Out of the sheet of wire mesh I cut it to form a cage but with no top and it fits inside the cooler. Inside the cooler I put two 2 Litre bottles of ice on the bottom and let the cage sit on top with the eels inside the cage, lay a wet piece of burlap on top of the eels or a wet rag and the things stay alive for days so long as I keep the rags wet, even with no ice. The ice just keeps them slow.
When eeling in the boat, I either drift, which is most of the time and cast, and depending on where I am, I might anchor up and cast and set the eel out on a fishfinder or an egg sinker, and most of the time, the rod will go off as the rod is deadsticked in the rodholder.
I've never trolled an eel before, mostly because I use them at night and don't want to be dragging an eel around the rocks when I can't really see, and going stealth means the motor is off.
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