When do you stop Slinging Eels.... - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Back Beach · 10-03-2007, 11:21 AM

I can smell it now, this is becoming the good old eel fishers are dummys and plug fishers are geniuses thread.
Its evolving slowly but surely

be patient.

The Iceman 6 · 10-03-2007, 11:49 AM

Plug, what's a plug???

luds · 10-03-2007, 12:00 PM

I'll take bait on this one. You need to be able to do both or there are times when you wont catch when the well rounded surfcaster will. How much you do one or the other should be based on personal preferance and what you enjoy doing more.

fishaholic18 · 10-03-2007, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by luds48

I'll take bait on this one. You need to be able to do both or there are times when you wont catch when the well rounded surfcaster will. How much you do one or the other should be based on personal preferance and what you enjoy doing more.

I like that Luds...Nicely done..

riverrat2 · 10-03-2007, 12:07 PM

Ive never seen eels get outfished by a plug at night.

luds · 10-03-2007, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by riverrat2

Ive never seen eels get outfished by a plug at night.

Find me an eel that even filled with lead will outcast a hab's.

Also, sometimes a huge plug can cull out a bigger fish when your eels are being taken everytime as soon as they hit the water.

numbskull · 10-03-2007, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by riverrat2

Ive never seen eels get outfished by a plug at night.

I have......many times. I fish with a guy who has taken seven 50lb bass from shore, mostly on eels. He usually fishes eels, I always fish plugs. I often "outfish" him, particularly when smaller (less than 20lbs) fish are around, but then I have never taken a 50 lb fish from shore, and can count the 40lb fish I've caught on one hand. I think there is a lesson there, but I can't figure it out, hence my screen name.

ThrowingTimber · 10-03-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by riverrat2

Ive never seen eels get outfished by a plug at night.

Smoked some random stranger on the cape national seashore, fishing needles and mambo minnows

He came over and asked what I was using

Ah ah wt f they wont take my #($&#($&3- eeels.. me haha sux to b u.

I stop slingin' eels once they freeze and I have to thaw them out in the water or until any shops around me stop carrying them or until I run out of frozen left over ones. Whichever comes later.

riverrat2 · 10-03-2007, 03:55 PM

When I mean outfished I mean fish of size... I have seen people slaying fish under 20lbs on plugs while I am picking away at fish on eels. I am not really concerned about being outfished at that point.

BigFish · 10-03-2007, 05:50 PM

plugs.....

fishaholic18 · 10-03-2007, 06:05 PM

Eels.

Slingah · 10-03-2007, 06:17 PM

eels....

steve · 10-06-2007, 11:43 AM

Put the plugs away, and use the live eels. There is NO COMPARISON-None.