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  1. A little background for those interested… the DEC is studying the American Eel is because the Pacific Eel is basically extinct due to overfishing, habitat loss, etc. and the American Eel was trending the same way. The American Eel is the only species left to be studied and protected.

    I teach a Marine Science elective at my school and it’s cool to show some of my students real field work. I’ve been participating for about a decade, the DEC has been researching since the early 2000s. The returns are up and down yearly, like any wild species, but the general trend over a decade is slowly rising.
    Get this, if you have eaten Eel, usually in sushi, it was most likely caught as a Glass Eel in the state of Maine, then shipped to Japan where it was raised in aquaculture and then shipped back to here eat! Maine is the only place Glass Eels can be legally fished. Last numbers I saw were $2000 per lbs.

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  2. You'll find adult American eels in rivers because they're catadromous fish. The opposite of salmon, steelhead, and trout, they live most of their lives in rivers and streams, then the adults head out to the ocean/lake to spawn in deep water. The larvae float on currents and enter rivers as glass eels (clear) an inch or 2 long and make their upstream.  I'm a teacher and take students to help with a DEC study on the Hudson to look for population numbers. Made a video with my own kids a few years back, I'll add a link. You can catch the adults on bait as if you were fishing for catfish. I've caught some juveniles on the Hudson with chunk herring, but they should eat most bait I would think.

     

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  3. If you’re worried about the insulators… I use Amish Outfitter downrigger snubbers and have new mag 5s. I reached out to canon about them working as an insulator and they said they will work as the insulator to stop

    the auto retrieve. I’ve used em multiple times and it stops at the surface like it should. So, from bottom to top I have the rigger weight, snubber, probe, then release. Hope this helps. 

  4. On 6/10/2023 at 9:02 PM, Odie 1 said:

    Okay...Great...I came across them in Dan Keatings books but wasn't quite sure when he used them.  Mostly light line it seemed.  

    Thanks for the help.

    I attended one of Dan’s seminars and he uses Blacks releases and rubber bands. He half hitches the rubber band 4 times around the line so it won’t slip. He’ll use one for light line and/or spoons. He’ll use 2 (just 1 half hitch as the 1st band is a stopper of sorts) or 3 and up to 4 bands when towing heavier gear like FF or in heavier currents. I asked him more about it and he said that you’ll detect (1) shakers, (2) decent fish and have more time to get to the rod and (3) it’ll help set the hook better. You want your releases tight enough to not break the bands but release after some good tugging by a decent fish. This will be my first season trying bands. We’ll see. Hope this helps. 

  5. 9 hours ago, jmyers8 said:

    I also have a 7ft inside rod and 8.5 outside and usually expand the spacing of my rod holders when running 2 dipsys. For walleye we consistently run 3 or 4 a side 

    What is the 7ft inside rod you’re running? Looking to set up double digger and want a short inside rod. Thanks. 

  6. You could research/contact some of the bracket companies for specs on the mounting side measurements. Then see how close it would be to your main if you mounted it all the way up at the bumper rail to the bottom of the hull. I have a spring loaded one and I like it, gets it up and out of the water when not in use. Also ez steer would be the way to go to link it to the main steering. I have one on mine and it works well. 

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