I've always felt that eels worked so well because (a) they are a live and natural food (reguardless of whether they are typically available to a striper at a given location and time of year) and (b) because they are very easy for stripers to catch and swallow (long and narrow with no spines or defense mechanism). Similar to why arkansas shiners are effective on largemouth bass even when they are not native to a given lake.
I can't see a bass passing up a live herring just because there are not many herring around and the bass are primarily feeding on something else. They are oppurtunists and eels represent an opportunity that is much harder to pass up than a plastic or wooden plug.
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Goose, like slipknot said, keep em in a livewell a few weeks and they will slim down quickly. I keep several dozen in my tanks, and found I need to use the medium size ones within the first week, otherwise they get small.
You could cut off a few inches too. I know they'd cast alot better
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