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After many years of working eels I had a friend that said try hooking your eel up under the chin and out the eye instead of down its mouth and out the bottom....well it was nice not to throw eels off so often, but I also found my hook up to fish was lacking what it had been. I latched into a nice fish one late afternoon...I dragged the fish to shore high and dry..after I slacked up on the line and bent down to dehook the fish, I saw that the tip of the hook was barely in the route of the mouth where it fell out all by itself ..I switched back to having the hook come out of the bottom of the eel...lost fish were rare once again....small fish like to hit and run..stop suck in the eel...here's where the 10 count comes in..large fish just suck it in on the spot....either way.try giving them a few more feet of line before hauling back....you can't get them all..its fishing.
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