Chris - there has been a lot of changes in management of the "Eel Fishery". Seems the sushi market has had a big impact on them. Now even recs have a posession limit and a lot of restrictions on commercial... Minimum size for both is like 5 inches - which is still a useless size... Now I've seen eels 4 feet long caught before when people were chunking for bass and I caught a 38 incher once - good battle.
They can get big too:
(well - this is the larger cousin to the American Eel [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] )
I hope to run about a dozen traps this year with a friend of mine so I can cull the size I want, 12-15 inches, slight cobrahead... I spent too much on eels last year [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ...
Miles, I wish I coulda kept them until May & June [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ....
[ January 07, 2003, 02:54 PM: Message edited by: John R ]