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Last Sat I experimented with a plastic strip that vaguely simulates an eel. I used a 14" piece of plastic that is the backbone left over from injection molding of a batch of soft plastics. I pulled it on a 3/4-oz jighead. Over two hours, I did not get any bites of that lure. But I have caught fish on shorter pieces of plastic backbone in other years.
John Veil
Annapolis
Native Watercraft Manta Ray 11, Falcon 11
Author - "Fishing in the Comfort Zone" , "Fishing Road Trip - 2019", "My Fishing Life: Two Years to Remember", and "The Way I Like to Fish -- A Kayak Angler's Guide to Shallow Water, Light Tackle Fishing"
Hey Tom Here is a Video of me using the Gulp Eels for the First time a couple of years ago. I like them they produced 2 nice rocks for me that day, but shelf life is short. https://youtu.be/G-YTYxJUmZU
I was thinking of using some off the shelf tube baits that imitate eels I saw at BPS but I read the regulations to state "no stinger or trailing hooks" until after April 15. All of those red and green rigs I saw have 2 hooks and I didn't want to be out of regulation. I figure they have this regulation during catch and release season so we don't gut hook a fish that we can't harvest.
Am I way off the mark on my understanding of the regulations or can we use those tube rigs I'm talking about or use 2 hooks on an artificial eel?
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