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10-08-2005, 03:26 PM
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Location: North Kingstown, RI
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Goose,
Bob Rocchetta's world record striper ate a LARGE eel -- Bob's preference to this day is large and the blacker the eel the better. If working an anaconda from the surf, it's hard to beat the trust old EelBob rig.
Anyone on this board ever opened a striper and found an eel in its stomach? How often? What's your thoughts on why they're such effective baits?
Mike
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10-08-2005, 04:13 PM
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Location: RockVegas
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I think aside from sand eels, with the larger American Eels, it may be more territorial or just sheer agressive hatred on the Stripers part. Eels are voracious foragers and possible competition for the Stripers for food. I don't know. Just a guess?  |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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10-08-2005, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
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The eels are not found on the beach in the surf but in inlets, ponds, brackish waters.
It is like love at first site and both go their seperate ways to do there own thing. Then one nite they meet unexpectantly in the surf then bam.
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10-09-2005, 07:30 AM
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slow eddie
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rhode Island
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big snakes
for decades in so.co. big snakes wew the sought after bait for the big mama's. stripers spawn in the bay's ect. where the ells are a primary pretator of their egg's. maybe the bass know this from generations past and react in anger slow eddie.
put them back alive :
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10-09-2005, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
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I have never found an eel int he belly of a beast, im glad someone asked because ive always wondered. Eels are like crack for stripers but i never see them in the bellies.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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10-09-2005, 08:29 PM
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I've never found eels in a belly either and wondered why. Maybe they digest faster?
Tony, try starving them down to size if you have time. But keep them in a black container if you want them black. |
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10-09-2005, 09:20 PM
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Ive found eels completely digested and also freshly killed , when cleaning bass a number of times. Probally so effective because eels and bass both start off their lives in the same areas(rivers, estuaries), its like comfort food to them.
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10-10-2005, 12:44 AM
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I don't think they start life in the same areas Chef. Aren't these eels from the Sargasso(sp?) Sea?
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