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01-16-2009, 09:07 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Excellent Presentation by Steve McKenna
Boy, if you guys didn't catch Steve's presentation on Rigged Eels last night at the Newport County Saltwater Fishing Club meeting, you really missed it.
Excellent job by Steve on both the show and demo afterwards. Seeing him rig first-hand during the demo was great. Whether you're a noob or a grizzled old veteran - or just grizzled, like me - it was a night well-spent. I don't think there was one aspect he didn't cover in depth, from rigging to fishing 'em.
I know it's a killer method but I always took the lazy man's way out using an eel-squid or lately a Pt Jude Wobblehead - which is another extremely effective way to fish dead eels if you don't have the time to rig. Now I'll have another weapon in my bag.
I think the happiest guy in the place was the 12 year old son of one of our members who took detailed notes throughout the whole talk - and then Steve gave him the riggie he just finished after the demo. The little guy asked Steve to sign the Zip-loc for him, too...  That was pretty cool - that young man will make a name for himself one day -
Thanks again, Steve - good job! 
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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01-16-2009, 09:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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Damn I wish I could have made it. That 0-4 on club meetings for me. Ill be there next time. Anytime you can talk fishing with Steve you come away learning something new.
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01-16-2009, 09:30 AM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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Anyone have a video? 
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01-16-2009, 11:01 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 63
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I agree, Crafty, Steve gave a great seminar. I didn't see anyone recording it......and the only person with the sense to take notes was a 10 year old kid! 
Last edited by OnTheLedge; 01-16-2009 at 11:01 AM..
Reason: spelling
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01-16-2009, 02:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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Steve did a wonderful job right down to giving credit to those who taught him about rigging eels. You don’t see that enough in this day and age. Info like that is what I consider "Intellectual Property".
When he left last night we made an agreement that we would only pass out one hint of his secret method to rigging eels and here it is: “Menthol dental floss”.
All kidding aside - If you were lucky enough to be there last night I hope you apply what you learned. Rigging eels isn’t for everyone – but many rewards will come to those who take the time to learn it.
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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01-16-2009, 05:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 369
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Sounds like everyone had a great time! I will def. be at his seminars at the edge. Great guy.
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01-16-2009, 05:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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Great talk Steve, I really learned alot.
But can I troll them on wire? 
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01-16-2009, 06:01 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,344
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Quote:
Originally Posted by big jay
Great talk Steve, I really learned alot.
But can I troll them on wire? 
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You're THAT Big Jay - I get it now
Yes, great speak buy Stevie. What impressed me the most is how he kept passing along the tips to the young lad taking all those notes. Great work kid 
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01-16-2009, 06:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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That McKenna...  Scary good...I was always struck by how when you meet a really good fisherman, it's immediately evident.
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01-17-2009, 02:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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Man, I really wish I could have gotten down there for this. I just really started fishing eels at the end of the season in the canal and I really like it. But don't know what to do with those dead ones aside from popping them on a wobblehead.
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01-17-2009, 07:57 AM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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Thanks everyone. WOW!!!! I am certainly humbled! I'm glad that you folks appreciated it. To BIg Jay, I don't think rigged eels would work out to well on wire. They are more of a casting deal. Try flipping one in to a boulder field along our coastline. That's were they really shine.
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