Big eel skins

[JLH]

I started trapping eels last year with only limited success but the ones I did get were big ones. The two in the pic are in a 5 gallon bucket, they were a little too heavy to fish but they made nice skins for GRS Slims. One thing I found trapping them is that they would gorge themselves on whatever bait I had in the trap and their stomach would expand a lot (not sure if you can pick up in the picture how thick they are). Even if you can get some pretty big eels from the bait and tackle shops they are usually too skinny to skin a big plug. It might be worth buying some and giving them a bunch of food to literally try to fatten them up. The two in the pic made short work of a whole chopped up bunker.

[dannyplug1]

I used one on a jr cowboy and it was killer expecially in heavy water. My other skins beach master dannies, spinns and wadd needles just got tossed arround. I am making a run of Cowboy jrs was wondering if I cut a groove before the fat part of the plug so I would not have to put the skin over the whole body of the plug. Do you think this would work? I got some big eels this year biggest was 24 inches but it was not fat enough. Is it possible to get an eel big enough for the cowboy jr or was the one I found the exception to the rule charlie