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  • Artificial eels

    I know that live lining eels is prohibited during the trophy season but can you use lures that look like eels?


    Tom Lagana
    www.tomlagana.net

  • #2
    I would think you can. It's an artificial lire, not a bait.


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    • #3
      Originally posted by Tom Lagana View Post
      I know that live lining eels is prohibited during the trophy season but can you use lures that look like eels?


      Tom Lagana
      www.tomlagana.net
      Absolutely. You can also use Gulp eels.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by buzz View Post
        Absolutely. You can also use Gulp eels.
        I was actually reading about those recently and apparently they're a very good alternative to live eels. I'm going to give them a go here soon.
        Zack
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        • #5
          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.

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          • #6
            I have never caught a rock on the Gulp eel. But once I got a few good hits.

            It was late April, trolling slow and deep along the channel edge about a mile off Breezy Point.


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            • #7
              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

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              • #8
                The only time i use artificial eels are for cobia, other than that ive caught plenty of blues on them.
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                • #9
                  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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                  • #10
                    Yes you can its one lure ..trout streams whole diff regulations

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