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You can always add a sinker in front of the eel but then it gathers weeds or gets stuck some times. For rigged eels , you have a big advantage cause the eel is dead. Just shove a small torpedo shaped sinker (or 2) down its throat after you run the line down through the blow hole but before you insert and tie the head hook and lash the mouth closed.
If you pick good sized eels to start with , they cast good. Remember that with a rigged eel , you can cast then visiously cause with that heavy wrap behind the head , the whole head would have to tear off (never happen) for the hook to come out. With a live eel if the rod is too stiff or you cast to violently , you will get cast offs but not with a properly rigged eel.
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