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Jim, you're in a boat, right? If you're drifting with the current, you won't need much additional weight to get near the bottom. If you're fishing from shore, you'll fish either weightless or with the same 1/2 to 3/4 ounce rubber core sinkers.
If you're anchoring in a boat (not recommended as it's dangerous at the mouth of the Merrimack), eels get a little more tough. Too much weight and they'll ball up on you on the bottom, too much current and they'll stay right on top - use the weights to get them down some...
BTW - for all of you that have fished the mouth of the Merrimack in a boat - it can be REAL nasty there, especially during a dropping tide and a hard wind out of the east... That mouth made the top 10 Nasty Inlets in Boating Magazine a couple years ago. Treat it with respect...
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