peanut bunker or eels?

[tattoobob]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

The presence of peanut bunker is way overrated IMO. Everyone gets excited over the peanuts, which is cool, but the eels at night will consistently take the largest fish. Most of the peanut blitzes are small and medium 7#-15# or so fish. The numbers can be big, but I'll take one large over 100 smalls every time.

Bingo, you hit the nail right on the head

[redlite]

Oh yeah, eels are "THE" thing over anything? take a DEAD X ounce pogie and stick xxxxx in it and xxx in it and rig and and y-y it and i bet you no matter how many fish are around, and how many eels or live pogies you send to the bottom, you will not get a fish once a y-y pogie is put in the water. .......

But from the beach, unless it starts with "EE" and ends in "L", I wouldn't bother.


Ahhhhhhh............fishing from shore.

[eelman]

Yup, every situation is different, the most readily avalible "live" bait for shore fisherman is the Live eel, thats why in my opinion its the best. Bunker just do not present themselves all the time for a Surfcaster, if they did then hands down that would be the winner....Secondly yo-yo from the beach just isnt possible....Now if I could have fresh from the ocean bunker on a daily basis, I would chunk it and say goodbye to eels....the key however is freshness, not the slush puppies you get in the bait shop, fresh dead chunked bunker is deadly. So is fresh squid etc... That is the stuff thats in there environment and thats what they eat...can't beat it. There are guys who go squiding in the spring then use that for some huge bass, there smart anglers and damn good fisherman.

The bottom line in my opinion is that Nothing can beat live bait or fresh dead bait, over the course of time the bait fisherman is going to win hands down. There is an art to Chunking and eel fishing just like everything else, the masters of it do so well it would surprise anyone.


here is somethin you may or may not have tried that works like majic...Take a whole Squid, cut the belly open and insert a piece of styrofoam, sew it shut with dacron ,ahead of a leader about 3 or 4 feet long and behind a barrel swivel place an egg sinker of the weight of your choice(enough to hold and bounce bottom) The styrofoam will hold the squid up and present like the real think as it bounces along the bottom...its deadly...very deadly...You dont use a sand spike and watch, you acually "fish this rig" Climbing out on a sandbar or rocky area and casting up current and letting it bounce along.......it get inhaled.

There are many tricks to bait fishing its not at all "deadsticking"....bait is killer when used the right way

[NIB]

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[Rockport24]

I know this thread is old news, but I haven't been on in a while - thanks for all the responses guys.. I just really started using eels and they are great, I"m sticking with them this fall for a cow and bringing the sluggos and surf hogs and reel eels too. I may chase a peanut blitz if I get skunked in the darkness and I am desparate for some action by the time the sun comes up.