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Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Dacron
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Dacron is the best thing to use. Use a double length of black 50# or 80# dacron inside the body.Some guys use toilet chain to avoid losing the rear hook to bluefish.The guy who showed me how to rig used cotton twine to sew the rear hook to the sides of the eels body because it was less likely to tear through the flesh. You don't want to use any of the super braids because they slice though the eel like butter, shortening its life and effectiveness. Also, my rigged eel mentor(the late Nate Piazza) frowned upon plastic ties because he claimed the eel would get waterlogged and soften up too much with all the water getting in the larger holes the ties made. He was real precise with everything on the riggies, kind of like a surgeon. Small diameter needles and such.
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