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Patrick---once anything you use to hang onto an eel gets wet and/or coated in slime, it's as useless as your bare hand. Just buy a package of Scotch-Brite pads, it's cheaper and easier. When one gets too slimy to use effectively, throw it away and use a fresh one--they're cheap enough.
Get yourself a cheap bucket, drill some 1/4" holes in the bottom so it'll drain, throw some weed in and some ice on top of them, and use a dry rag to grab the eel. The ice will make it very easy to handle, and it's one-two-three. In between the time you hook the eel, take off the slimy glove so the crap doesn't get all over your rod grip and make you cast it into the Sound along with the eel, and hang it off your belt loop, the eel is going to look like a magic 8-ball all knotted around itself and your leader.
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