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I'd say for the cheapest and best entry for eeling and plugging would be a Tica or Quarrow from 8-9 feet with a Abu 6500 TCST reel if you are going to go conventional. Probably the best setups short of going custom.
For using a lighter setup for tight areas go with an 8 foot of the same with a mid sized spinning - 6000 size reel (Shimano, Daiwa, Penn) and you can throw stuff from sluggos to lighter plugs to smaller eels.
The thing for you if you got one on a chunk a few years ago is to not target a 50 pounder off the bat but to put yourself in the best way to get fish from the 20 inch range into the small mid size keeper range... Walk before you run, you will learn more and adapt better than jumping in with the big stuff - believe me - I tried years ago migrating from an 8 footer to a 12 footer and my catches went from decent to nonexistant...
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