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06-01-2005, 06:42 AM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
Posts: 1,208
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Set up a livewell and keep your own. Anytime you need them they are there. Works well for me. You can make a very cheap livewell for snakes with a walmart rubbermaid tub and cheap fish tank bubbler
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Do you think I could use a 10 gallon fish tank set up...got an old one I can use?  |
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06-01-2005, 07:19 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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Originally Posted by partsjay
Do you think I could use a 10 gallon fish tank set up...got an old one I can use? |
You could but it would be a PIA changing the water. You have to change the water often to keep them alive. I do it every other day. You're better off making a 2 bucket setup like MacoJoe explains in the "How To" forum.
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ead.php?t=9001
Last edited by fishaholic18; 06-01-2005 at 07:28 AM..
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06-01-2005, 07:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Attleboro, MA
Posts: 453
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I have a 30 gallon fish tank you can have.......come get it or I could meet you sometime. It's 30"L x 12"W x 12"H
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06-01-2005, 08:01 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,036
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Very simple to buy eels and keep them in a tank at home, thats what I do. Then there always there ready to go.
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06-01-2005, 08:13 AM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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When I am using eels I will buy them up to a week early. I, and a friend made a bucket for them and even in the summer heat I can keep a few dozen for a week easy!!
Just put your eels in it with some seaweed, put the basket in the top with ice. Keep in shade or cool basement, garage.
The Ice will melt and give the eels a cold shower, keeping them cold, wet and happy!!
You can see how to make the bucket in the "how to" section here
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...1&page=1&pp=20 |
"All my friends are Flakes!!"
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06-02-2005, 06:39 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Originally Posted by partsjay
Do you think I could use a 10 gallon fish tank set up...got an old one I can use? |
I use a 20 tall but I have a filtration unit for it along with the bubbler, also modified a screen top from keeping reptiles that keeps them from doing the great escape.
They keep the dog amused.  |
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06-02-2005, 08:16 AM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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There is a bait store in West Boylston off 190 exit 4 or 5 at the injtersection of Rt. 12 and 140. Anglers and Archers that carries eels. It is near the West Boylston WalMart. I usually will buy my eels earlier in the day and then keep them cool in a bucket and let some ice melt over them. I fish a lot at night and have never had a problem keeping them for a few hours a head of time.
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06-03-2005, 01:03 AM
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50 in '05
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Fitchburg, Ma.
Posts: 51
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Originally Posted by tynan19
There is a bait store in West Boylston off 190 exit 4 or 5 at the injtersection of Rt. 12 and 140. Anglers and Archers that carries eels. It is near the West Boylston WalMart. I usually will buy my eels earlier in the day and then keep them cool in a bucket and let some ice melt over them. I fish a lot at night and have never had a problem keeping them for a few hours a head of time.
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Thanks Tynan! That's news to me. W.Boylston is where I'm going all the time for short trips to Wachusett with the little one anyways. It would make it so easy to take a quick trip down on a week night to stock up for the weekend.  Wait a second, is that the one right next to the packie next to wachusett? |
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
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06-03-2005, 05:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Right new to the Honey Dew! Thanks for the info, I drive right by there every day!  |
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06-03-2005, 08:36 AM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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Originally Posted by bcaron
Wait a second, is that the one right next to the packie next to wachusett?
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No that is B&A tackle off Rt. 12 The other one is if you are coming from fitchburg and you get off exit 5. Just stay on 140 into West Boylston Center. There is a Honey Farms at the intersection. A&A is right next to it. |
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06-03-2005, 04:01 PM
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50 in '05
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Fitchburg, Ma.
Posts: 51
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Gotcha! 
I know the place now. Never been in but have driven by many times. Thanks again Tynan. |
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
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06-03-2005, 06:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
Posts: 6,049
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I use a 3 bucket system
from top to bottom
one for ice with holes
one for the eels with holes
one for the slime with a spicot ( thanks saltheart)
leave the spicot open and attach a hose thats goes outside your garage or vehicle . when the ice melts it will flow out of the 3rd bucket and no build up to drown the eels . Ive kept eels for up to 3 weeks with out to many dying .
never needed em longer . you do have to stay on top of the ice .
I buy my eels locally for 90 cents at regular business hours and the drive to the fishing grounds . usually thats not a problem I live in Ct and fish RI and the cape
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