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Originally Posted by Tagger
so that's 4 maybe .... Eddie . You getting good eels over there . I got into a little jam there years ago .. He has nice eels in the tanks in the garage the kid let me into .... shoe strings in the store .. Have things changed ? He wouldn't let me at the grade A . Mike has good eels .
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Same here, it's got to be the kid, the older guy doesn't seem to want the business even when I have offered more per eel for the snakes. I only go there because I can get them and bring them home, they will keep till I head out (closest to home for live eels). When they are shoestrings and it's not the kid I look them over and if I can't chose the ones I want I tell him "thanks but I'm going to pass" and leave without buying a thing. I used to get my Mac flats there when I did more bait fishing.
I can never get them just before I want to fish (no midnight-3am eels any where ;( ). The kid told me the best deal is to have a commercial license and they'll sell them in bulk. I miss the days of a shop being open when I'm heading out.
Mike gets 90% of my plug purchases and I would buy eels there also but he isn't open when I leave to go fishing, he gets the plug business because he is open when I am heading home.
Last year I only fished eels a few times because I found plugs more productive, it's the yak that makes me want to try them again (lazy fishing
). I have a couple of riggies from last season I will use till I get some new snakes to rig.
I even asked the older guy about buying the big eels that have died for more than the live ones and he says no, I pretty much no when I get there if it's not the kid I am probably not spending
any money there.
I may have look into catching my own so I can get the ones I need for skins.
I might even consider a purchase with the smaller eels mixed in since casting them won't be an issue from the yak.
I am really suffering a little withdrawl, I have only fished once the day after the trip to Hull (boy that was a great time, I highly recommend scrambles). The posting I did today shows my level of sanity
