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Originally Posted by Clogston29

My guess would be that a plug (or atleast most of them) is worked near the top of the water column where the pogies are and its basically competing directly with the pogies for the bass's attention. An eel, on the other hand, is worked nearer to the bottom where the bigger fish are hanging around looking for an easy meal - be it a dead bunker, eel, lobster, whatever. For a plug to be really effective in a school of bait, again only my opinion, there have to be a lot of bass around competing for the bait. Now I'm not into throwing chunks, but the situation that you describe would definately tempt me into throwing a nice fresh piece of meat out there.
I also think eels are pretty much an ideal meal for a bass because they are long, thin and have no protection (spines, gill plates, etc.) so its hard for me to imagine them passing them up. I've heard some fresh water bass pros talk about what rubber worms represent to a bass and there answer is usually just "something long, thin and easy to swallow".

Josh,
I think you nailed it, bucktail jigs and tins maybe a good choice.