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10-08-2005, 04:14 PM
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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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10-10-2005, 07:31 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
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Why?
I've always felt that eels worked so well because (a) they are a live and natural food (reguardless of whether they are typically available to a striper at a given location and time of year) and (b) because they are very easy for stripers to catch and swallow (long and narrow with no spines or defense mechanism). Similar to why arkansas shiners are effective on largemouth bass even when they are not native to a given lake.
I can't see a bass passing up a live herring just because there are not many herring around and the bass are primarily feeding on something else. They are oppurtunists and eels represent an opportunity that is much harder to pass up than a plastic or wooden plug.
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10-10-2005, 07:57 AM
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Location: MA
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by BigBo
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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SHortly after they hatch in the saragasso they drift into rivers and estuaries where bass spend there 1st few years. |
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