What would give you a better chance at a fifty?

[Jenn]

Bait.

[Mike P]

An eel casts as well as most metal lip swimmers, Gil. And I don't retrieve a swimmer much faster than I retrieve an eel.

A rigged eel will outcast most swimmers--but is that a bait or a lure?

And I won't mention dogfish and their preference for bait over jigs

[Ake G]

Actually making it out on the water when conditions are most favorable with one of my two favorite plugs.

With those two things coming together I'd have all the confidence in the world.

[bloocrab]

Mike, when speaking of eels,,,

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is that a bait or a lure?

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I hope you know what you started, that will be the Title to the next 4 new threads. ,,,

Seriously though,, I don't consider eel fishing equal to bait-fishing. I do work chunked baits thru drifts...and I will also make occasional bounces with my chunks when bottom fishing, to rejuvenate the juices as well as move it away from a tugging crab or just to another spot,,, but eel fishing in an essence, is plugging ...with a "Living" plug. "Plugging" by definition, is to "keep at something" which to me means continuously casting and retrieving, that's what I do with eels, , thus plugging .
I have also chunked FAT river eels, but I consider that Bait Fishing, it's all in what you do with the eel that makes it a plug or a bait. Happy now??

In my analogy, I was comparing a 2 -3 oz. needle versus a bloody, fresh pogy chunk ..............I should have been more specific.






but just like in my other post, I would still pick BAIT over PLUGS if there was money on the line

[MikeToole]

From a boat:
Live Bunker
Bunker spoons
Whole or the head of a Dead Bunker

From the shore:
Chunks
Eels
Mambo Minnow