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Originally Posted by striprman
Interesting article in there this month about eels.
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Norman Benson and son of James Pond, W. Tisbury, supplied generations of Island stripermen, and decades of Derby participants in their era. So, I learned eeling from the best! I had the privilege to make pots and pull pots with them.
I thought it laughable that a resident striperman would actually buy eels rather than get their own...until these last few years. I tried once again two weeks ago: two pots in each of three different, formerly proven and abundant locations...ONE EEL huge enough for a skinplug and that was it. Now I think that buying them at $2.00 apiece is actually a BARGAIN, because they are no longer locally available. They are gone.