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09-29-2010, 07:19 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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*((%#$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whats that foul smell in the garage?
Its the stench of 2 dozen rotten eels! I picked them up a week ago, had the aerator running, changed the water on Saturday after I returned a few survivirs from a fishing trip. No clue what the hell happened. Maybe my aerator cant handle that many, I usually just get a dozen or so. They survived last week, maybe a few died and polluted the water, it was really warm yesterday? No clue, but its a waste of $40+ and now Im SOL .
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09-29-2010, 07:22 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
Whats that foul smell in the garage?
Its the stench of 2 dozen rotten eels! I picked them up a week ago, had the aerator running, changed the water on Saturday after I returned a few survivirs from a fishing trip. No clue what the hell happened. Maybe my aerator cant handle that many, I usually just get a dozen or so. They survived last week, maybe a few died and polluted the water, it was really warm yesterday? No clue, but its a waste of $40+ and now Im SOL .
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How about Frak or Dang?
We really need to clean ourselves up a bit (me included) |
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09-29-2010, 07:41 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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sorry, couldnt edit the title, can u change it ?
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09-29-2010, 07:46 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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How's that?
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09-29-2010, 07:46 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,139
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How big is the container you are using? Did you lose power? Also, how warm does your garage get?
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09-29-2010, 07:50 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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RIJIMMY, I know how you feel. Had the same problem when the city switched to a Chlorimine solution in the water and lost a dozen a couple days after the switch.
Next I kept them in my live well on the boat with out live well pump running, lasted for ever changed the water every day no aerator. Bought another couple of dozen, left in live well, was working great, that is until I put a half dozen live macks in with them, docked the boat and was going back out about 3 hrs. later. Shut the livewell pump off went and did what I had to do, come back to boat and everything was dead. The macks must have sucked up all the oxygen and that was in a 55 gal. drum.   |
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09-29-2010, 07:54 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Originally Posted by flyvice11787
How big is the container you are using? Did you lose power? Also, how warm does your garage get?
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Its @ 15 gallons, Ive keep eels alive in the middle of the summer in my garage so I dont think its the heat , I think that a few died and the water became rancid. I should have check on them Monday. I usually can go 3-4 days before changing the water. |
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09-29-2010, 09:07 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Shame on you. 
Redlite used to be the only person I knew who could, in one fell swoop, execute an entire colony of eels.
My advice is to sell the boat, forget the live bait thing, and pm me your mailing address so I can get a couple plugs in your hands. Leave the eel fishing(and killing) to the professionals. |
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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09-29-2010, 09:47 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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go over and look at 5/0 setup he has the best rig for long life.
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09-29-2010, 10:01 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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I lost a dozen eels last month. I keep them in a 30 gallon rubbermaid tub with 2 aquarium powerheads. Have done so all summer with no problems, then for some reason this whole batch just died at once.
It is amazing how fast they stink, they couldn't have been dead more than 12 hrs or so.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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09-29-2010, 10:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,294
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Circlehook
I lost a dozen eels last month. I keep them in a 30 gallon rubbermaid tub with 2 aquarium powerheads. Have done so all summer with no problems, then for some reason this whole batch just died at once.
It is amazing how fast they stink, they couldn't have been dead more than 12 hrs or so.
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Yeah, it seems like there was a bad batch at one point.
Most eels come from one distibutor, me and the gang buy our eels at different places, but there was a batch that it seemed we all lost an ass load of em from at the same time. Sucked.
If one dies, it is amazing how quick the water turns putrid. |
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09-29-2010, 11:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: RI
Posts: 383
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Get the cheap water conditioner at Wally world. We've had two dozen MONSTERS alive for weeks. in about 15 gallons. The water conditioner is key.
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09-29-2010, 02:15 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redlite
Yeah, it seems like there was a bad batch at one point.
Most eels come from one distibutor, me and the gang buy our eels at different places, but there was a batch that it seemed we all lost an ass load of em from at the same time. Sucked.
If one dies, it is amazing how quick the water turns putrid.
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Mikey, I think you are are spot on as I had the same thing happen to me and I never loose eels. I have 3 aquarium pumps with 5 stones in a 30 gallon tub in back of my garage. North side cool and dark.
I think there was a bad batch that were sick. |
No boat, back in the suds. 
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09-29-2010, 05:01 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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Jonestown eels.
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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09-29-2010, 07:52 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
Shame on you.
My advice is to sell the boat, forget the live bait thing, and pm me your mailing address so I can get a couple plugs in your hands. Leave the eel fishing(and killing) to the professionals. |
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