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Saltheart:
Great description. Just a few questions:
1. How do you tie the heavy line onto the head hook if its eye is inside the mouth located near the back of the head? You don't just thread the line through the head hook eye and out the mouth to the rod line, do you? Stated differently, do you secure the line tightly to the head hook eye or just run it through the eye? And if you tie it, how do you do that given that the eye is way into the throat?
2. When you use the small needle to sew the eye on each hook, do you wrap the line around the eel, or just thread it back and forth through the eel a few times? And what kind of line/thread do you use for this hook-eye-sewing step? And I understand that you do this step to keep the hooks oriented downward, right?
If you can straighten these points out for me, then I'll become a neophyte eel rigger. However, my wife will probably not go along with doing it in the kitchen sink!
Again, thanks for the description.
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