what's the longest time an eel has stayed alive for you?

[Goose]

I got into a school of fish this year that where feeding on silversides they wouldn't take a live eel. At first I thought they wouldn't touch eels period because of all the bait it the water but once they went limp they where hittin it almost every cast. I've taken 5 or 6 bass on 1 eels no problem... good barb and a new prick.

[Mr. Sandman]

They work when they are limp...in fact I have caught large on "cigar butt" eels that have been bitten off by bluefish, they don't have to be real active to catch fish.