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The eel is also great in the sense that it can be worked as a "live lure" which is the way I usually use it.
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John,
This brings back fond memories of the 02' season. My brother Charlie was visiting from the state of Washington and recovering from heart surgery and
hasn't been striper fishing in 20 years. After an ok morning with some 12-15 lb. fish I stopped at a bridge on the way in to make a few last casts
and I ended up with a 38.5 that almost spooled the 6500 CL [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] . It really made his day to see that fish! Speaking of eels, I used to be a commercial eeler in the late 70's and early 80's
before the overseas market crashed because of the mercury content in the European eels. I was running 80-100 pots a day after school. Back then I would cull out and throw back 75-150 lbs a day of shoe strings! God knows what they would be worth these days [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

Chris