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Old 03-21-2002, 12:14 PM   #24
cocco7
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How to hook a live eel has always been a debate. I've always found it most useful to hook it in one eye socket and out the other with a short shank hook and use the skull to keep him on your hook, but they don't always live as long that way. I've also seen them hooked through the bottom of the mouth using the thicker cartilage in the jaw as an anchor.

Maybe someone else has a better way of doing it, that's just the way that's worked for me. Also remember to slow crank them in the water or you get some major "eel knots" and you have up cutting your line and starting all over again.

Anyone know where you can buy live eels this time of year? You don't see them too much, if at all on the north shore this time of year.
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