Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 11:15 AM
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chipmunk trapper
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I eat a eel once
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 11:20 AM
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They're catching them here using razor clams & salted eel is one of the best baits for trottlines. Best locations are old piers & junky places
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 11:24 AM
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They're catching them here using razor clams & salted eel is one of the best baits for trottlines. Best locations are old piers & junky places Great, thanks. Do they catch them all year long, or is it more of a summer run over there?
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 11:27 AM
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I think there is a buyer for eel on Rocky Hock Creek, off the east side of the Chowan River. They used to have a large floating net that eels were stored in and a suction truck came a few times per year to suck them into a tank. I heard they were flown overseas where they were smoked, and a sought by the French.
Full Circle Seafood in Columbia, NC has pots I think and surely knows who the local buyer is.
A lot of you oysters are trucked up here now to provide work in the crab houses. I suppose those trucks go back empty. Buy a few hundred traps and ask Willie to send them back on an empty truck. He also has hoop traps.
Do you have a commercial fishing license? If so, you can get your sales tax back.
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 05:05 PM
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They're catching them here using razor clams & salted eel is one of the best baits for trottlines. Best locations are old piers & junky places Great, thanks. Do they catch them all year long, or is it more of a summer run over there? Primetime starts in early spring but they will trap in summer and fall as well.
Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 06:32 PM
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Take a package of chicken livers and dump them into a stocking, great bait.
Our eels are in our rivers and love to get under large rocks.
My B-I-Law runs an eel weir/rack, I was his partner at one time but there simply isn't enough time for that anymore. Some nights he'll get 20 or 30 pounds, some nights 2-3 hundred pounds and when the river's up and the moon is just right in the late Fall, he may catch 1,000 pounds in a night.
Been sitting here trying to load pics but keep being told that they're too big.
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/21/15 06:49 PM
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Are eels the kind of thing that you catch one, have a few empty pots, and then maybe catch another, it would it be somewhat comparable to crab pots where you catch at least several per pot if you're in a good spot?
one eel every other pot and I would be pulling them for another spot.
Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Re: American Eels: Traps, Baits, Locations
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07/22/15 08:26 PM
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Lt. Dan's Big Eel Predator Bait! Made from ground up eel, and 13 original herbs and spices! I've found myself a retirement job! Woo hoo! We might even make it glow in the dark for some eye appeal!
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