skin jig question

[nor-easter]

When there are Herring or Pogies around you may want to try the skins Blue Side out and only about 8 inches long, the fatter the better, to look like a Herring or Pogie. When the water gets up to 58 or above switch to the Dark Side out and leave them long.
When you skin the eel go slowly to the A**hole or Vent and be sure to cut the intestine, otherwise the skin will split from the vent to the tail and that spoils the movement of the eel.
When you get all rigged try each bait alongside you in the water. If the Tail don't wiggle then grasp the skin , in a rag is easiest, and split the tail by pulling on the two sides just for an inch to start.
Then test it alongside for wiggle.
Repeat the tail split, an inch at a time till you get the wiggle and the eel suddenly will appear to have come alive.
Now you got it right. It has to wiggle like it is alive, that is the challenge.
When you have mastered the eel so it swims and wiggles and fools that big momma bass, then you have really become a Bass Fisherman.
Any body can catch em on Live Bait.
It takes a real fisherman to rig a bait and fool the bass.