Drifting Eels in BIG Currents

[ThrowingTimber]

If you pour your own lead or know someone who does. have them make you a cylinder type weight 1.2 oz to 1oz is good, with a brass eye at one end. You stuff the weight into the eels mouth, then when you hook the eel, you passs the hook through the brass eye of the weight.

Giving it a bit more thought, you can prbably use small tail weights used in lure building with a piece of through wire.

or as other mentioned rubber cores.

[Back Beach]

In addition to using lead, figure out when the tidal flows are less(slower) and target those times. In other words, fish places with big currents during times of lesser currents.

[Joe]

He who can't be named sticks weights down their throat. I used to add slip-sinkers to the leader and use the count-down method.

[NIB]

Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber

If you pour your own lead or know someone who does. have them make you a cylinder type weight 1.2 oz to 1oz is good, with a brass eye at one end. You stuff the weight into the eels mouth, then when you hook the eel, you passs the hook through the brass eye of the weight.

Giving it a bit more thought, you can prbably use small tail weights used in lure building with a piece of through wire.

or as other mentioned rubber cores.

I have seen them things..That seems like a lot of weight.My guess would be he dredges the sand with em trying to emulate the bottom movements of sand eels..U can make ur own with any tailweight and a screw eye..On the edges of the current where I fish. I just use a pinch on about 18-24" up the line.It ususally don't take much weight to get a eel down.Basically all you have to do is point em that way and they go on there own.
On surfrats Paul Melnyk did a god story based on how some old time crumudgeon sharpies taught him to use a inline drail to cast eels from the surf in the sweeping currents of Shagwong Point.

[emgred]

Originally Posted by NIB

On surfrats Paul Melnyk did a god story based on how some old time crumudgeon sharpies taught him to use a inline drail to cast eels from the surf in the sweeping currents of Shagwong Point.

I've used 1/2 oz to 2 oz drails for for throwing eels in South Shore Long Island Inlet rips for many years.