what are you paying - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

blackeye · 06-08-2003, 02:58 PM

for eels? I paid $$19 for a dozen eels and a bag of ice at quaker lane last nite. Almost crapped myself when the guy told me, eels are $$1.40 there. anybody got a better deal?

JohnR · 06-08-2003, 03:23 PM

I'm typically paying 1.25 & picking my own eels. I haven't been to Quaker Lane yet this year but the bad side is I pay a little more for eels there but the good side is that I do pick my own. I'm OK with paying a little extra on eels provided that I get to pick them or if I KNOW the particular guy behind the counter will give me good surfcasting eels. All the other eels don't matter...

nightfighter · 06-08-2003, 04:58 PM

And the "how to select your quality eels for surfcasting" is located where?

bassmaster · 06-08-2003, 05:40 PM

I use to Buy them Buy the pound
or hand pick My snakes

JohnR · 06-08-2003, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nightfighter
And the "how to select your quality eels for surfcasting" is located where?

It all depends on what you want. I want an eel that will load the rod and be a nice big tasty meal when the time is right! I want an eel that casts well into the wind (like that'll ever happen). I want an eel with some stones that wants to shoot for the sea floor - something with some heft - don't like shoestrings though there are times when that's what the bass prefer...

likwid · 06-08-2003, 06:49 PM

Might start eel'in off a friends dock for bait...

So, I'd in effect be paying.... however much the pogie heads are worth left over from fishin

capesams · 06-08-2003, 07:34 PM

HEADS

Thats the best part to fish with, the rest is eel bait.

Fishpart · 06-09-2003, 05:55 AM

$1.25, in Glocester, RI, by the time I usually leave to fish the shops closer to the beach are closed. Just be sure you get there early on the new moon in September

Usually get decent eels, if you ask for big they are more though.

Mr. Sandman · 06-09-2003, 03:02 PM

.90 (but I am a good customer)

I like em 16-18" but tend to seek out the biggest ones I can get. The little guys are not castable...you need some weight. You can used the small eels from a boat and they work...but given my choice look for 18"ers.

Buzz-erd · 06-09-2003, 03:57 PM

Sometimes nothing on the rare occasions I bait fish these days.
A lot of kids fish in this pond very close to my house.Somtimes they catch'em in pretty decent numbers.When I see them with eels I ask them to give them to me instead of throwing them back.
The eels seem to have no problem going from fresh to salt instantly(the beach is only a 100yds or so from the pond).
A lot of the property around the pond has become private and I have yet to see anyone fishing the pond this year.I don't really
freshwater fish,I don't even have any of that gear anymore.
Maybe somekind of fishtrap or small trotline would work.
Bait it with pogy or mackeral,some kind of bait the largemouths and the bluegills would stay away from?