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09-12-2009, 03:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,294
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The Un-Killable eels
As anyone that knows me can attest, I am the master of killing eels. If I try and keep em alive, it seems they die within an hour.
Well, now that I am TRYING to kill them to rig them up, they won't friggin die. I had them in plastic bags for an hour.....still kickin'........I put them in an airtight plastic container for 2 hours.........still wouldn't die.......put em in a ziploc bag for another hour and the motha effer's still won't die..........what to do next???? Should probably just toss em in the cooler for 10 minutes and they'll be dead.......
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09-12-2009, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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ask them to pass health care and they will die
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09-12-2009, 03:11 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Put them in the freezer
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
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09-12-2009, 03:16 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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cover them in salt then shut the bag.
5-min you can have an eel wake.
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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09-12-2009, 08:09 PM
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woody
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Port St Lucie Fla.
Posts: 1,062
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
cover them in salt then shut the bag.
5-min you can have an eel wake.
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it also take off the slim so it's easier to rig them.  |
You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a
Clipboard.
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09-12-2009, 04:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,298
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putting them in salt seems inhumane. Put them in the freezer and they'll be dead in a hour.
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09-12-2009, 05:10 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,272
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
cover them in salt then shut the bag.
5-min you can have an eel wake.
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This works
Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulS
putting them in salt seems inhumane. Put them in the freezer and they'll be dead in a hour.
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Putting them in front of a Bluefish is inhumane  |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
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09-13-2009, 06:34 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulS
putting them in salt seems inhumane. Put them in the freezer and they'll be dead in a hour.
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as compared to hooking them down the throat and casting them for 20 minutes? |
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09-14-2009, 07:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,298
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
as compared to hooking them down the throat and casting them for 20 minutes?
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You can freeze them and they don't seem to suffer. Why cause them more pain than necessary. If there was another way to fish w/eels to catch fish rather than hooking them up through the eye, I'd do it. |
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09-15-2009, 10:20 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,825
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulS
You can freeze them and they don't seem to suffer. Why cause them more pain than necessary. If there was another way to fish w/eels to catch fish rather than hooking them up through the eye, I'd do it.
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There is. Go snag some bunker with a 8/0 weighted treble hook. Then put a 3/0 treble through their noses and cast them and let them swim around hooked to your rod until a Bass or Bluefish comes by and eats them. IT'S BAIT FOR GOD SAKE!!!!  |
No boat, back in the suds. 
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09-14-2009, 08:20 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,204
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I usually take one out of the bag and tie him to a chair. then I proceed to take the others out of the bag...... one at a time, and kill them....slowly and methodically, while the one in the chair watches...then I let him go so he can tell the others. 
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Originally Posted by PaulS
putting them in salt seems inhumane. Put them in the freezer and they'll be dead in a hour.
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Could be worse....you could be putting a hook through their jaw and out their eye socket, then throwing them in the air and smacking them against the water....then drag them back, sometimes jerking violently, and do it to them all over again, sometimes making it last over an hour or more....and their only hope is that something eats them....but I see your point on the salt  |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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09-12-2009, 05:28 PM
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slow eddie
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 1,494
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throw a cigarett butt in the pail. takes about a n.y. minute.
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put them back alive. i do have grandkids.
as your hair gets whiter, your gear gets lighter. 
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09-12-2009, 05:30 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Kosher salt is my method. Sticking a hook thru their eye is humane?
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-12-2009, 05:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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What's next?
HUMANE euthanization of all bait species prior to hooking so their human rights aren't violated?? 
Not saying be cruel or treat life with disrespect, but.....
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09-12-2009, 06:19 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,825
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Mikey:
Just put them in the freezer. They are dead in an hour
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No boat, back in the suds.
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09-12-2009, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: trying for Truro
Posts: 583
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I have heard that exposure to tobacco kills them real quick, as Eddie suggests.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
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09-12-2009, 07:02 PM
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Gone Dark
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Buzzards Bay
Posts: 512
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 2na
I have heard that exposure to tobacco kills them real quick, as Eddie suggests.
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does skoal work??  |
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09-13-2009, 06:38 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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[QUOTE=redlite;711080]As anyone that knows me can attest, I am the master of killing eels. QUOTE]
I ATTEST!
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-13-2009, 08:00 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,990
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Redlite aka Grim Reaper with a 6/0 sickle
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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09-13-2009, 08:34 AM
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Surfcaster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 834
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freezer
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09-13-2009, 10:49 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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If you put them in the freezer, make sure they are freeze solid.
I put some in the freezer once to kill them so I could rig them. I took them out when they were stiff and stuck a rigging needle up their vents and pulled dacron out their mouth - outside on the picnic table during the summer. They came back to life before I could finish with the head hooks - par-frozen was not enough.
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09-13-2009, 05:58 PM
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here fishy fishy
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: westport,ma.
Posts: 3,111
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threaten to take them fishing with me, they will die from boredom |
redcrbbr
of all the things i've lost...i miss my mind the most!!
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09-14-2009, 09:12 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
If you put them in the freezer, make sure they are freeze solid.
I put some in the freezer once to kill them so I could rig them. I took them out when they were stiff and stuck a rigging needle up their vents and pulled dacron out their mouth - outside on the picnic table during the summer. They came back to life before I could finish with the head hooks - par-frozen was not enough.
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had the same experience. |
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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09-14-2009, 09:16 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Freezer seems like a better idea or even the salt. I'd stay away from scenting them with any tobacco product. That just seems counter productive.
How do your legs feel today Mike?
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Domination takes full concentration..
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09-14-2009, 07:59 AM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 2,461
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microwave.
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Make America Great Again.
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09-14-2009, 07:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,656
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I attest to the coming back to life bit. Had some left over eels toward the end of Nov. Decided to freeze them and rig them. After 3 days I had them in a bag getting defrosted to rig. I come back with the rigging materials and while I'm cutting some dacron I swear I hear a noise coming from the bag. Don't pay much atttention and continue to get ready. i hear the same noie and I say to myself, that can't be. Look in the bag and I see movement. Empty the bag in the bucket and lo and behold the freakin eels are "ALIVE". Didn't have the heart to kill them so I put them in the tank. They lived till the middle of December. Never used them so for their valiant effort to ward off death I rfeturn them back to the sea. So now when I freeze to kill I make sure they are not just stiff they are "DEAD".
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Billy D.
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09-14-2009, 09:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 43
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Don't leave them in salt too long. I dumped salt on some last week then got side tracked with stuff around the house so I then put them in the refrigerator over night. The next day the salt had sucked all the water out of them and they were super dehydrated, pruned, stiff and useless. Unless bass like salt cured eels.
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11-20-2009, 03:59 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,428
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I tried the hot tap water method. Expired in less than a minute. Did'nt come back to life when I was rigging.
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