Salted Eel For Sale

[chesapeake honker]

If Anyone Is Looking For Some Eel, We Have Some Fresh From This Year Salted And In Our Walk-in Box
Call 301-481-2102

[HuskyJerk]

price per lb?

[chesapeake honker]

$2.50 lb. nice size eels. everything caught this spring and has been brined and still in walk in box. don't get shafted by someone else selling rotten eels from last year at a cheaper price. nothing worse than baiting 1200 ft of line and find out all your eel is rotten!!!!!

[JimWoodmansee]

I always used to use salted eels but recently bought 20lbs of bull lips for $25 ($1.25lb)at Rowells in Prince Frederick. I let them sit in salt for a week first to toughen them up but I didn't have great luck on my first trip with them. However, I started way late (noon) on the Patuxent out of Benedict across from the power plant in about 8 feet of water.

Does anyone have experience with both eels and bull lips (and chicken necks too) and wants to make a recommendation as to which is better? Need all the help I can get!

[Capt. Dale]

No doubt about it fresh necks every trip.
less work than lips (and will out catch lips),cheaper than eel.
And yes I've used all the above.

[rj]

I use fresh necks, & rebait %100 every day,used to swear by salted eels but the price became too high and fresh bait out caught them every time, much cheaper than eels or lips, for the recreational crabber it is the way to go.

[JALOPY]

I used necks the sunday of Mem day weekend, did not see a crab, so i pulled it in, put it in a black plastic bag and threw the whole thing in the freezer. Just used it last saturday on the Wye and got my bushel, 500' trot line. Why can't i save my necks in the freezer from 1 week to the other if they look okay??????

[OlCrab]

I'm not sure how scientific this test was but several years ago I baited a line with bull lip, eel and chicken necks. Each bait was alternated so that every third bait was bull lip, eel or chicken. The chicken overwhelmingly out caught the eel and bull lip. After a couple hours in 80 degree water the chicken spoiled and the eel out caught the bull lip. My general rule of thumb is that you get only one trip from a line baited with chicken, and possibly two with eel and maybe three with bull lip. If I'm using trap a fresh fish head is as good as anything.

[chesapeake honker]

yes chicken is great, BUT, when it gets hot, it smells like sh**. you have to debait your line as soon as you get home, with eel, just brine it and put it in the fridge or walk in box and bait it when you get to it. sometimes you can crab with eel 2-3 times, i use eel from the 2nd week of june to the end of october. caught almost 7 bushel on sunday with eel, so don't know one tell me that chicken is better than eel. it is all about being on the crab.

by the way, you guys hi-jacked my thread!!!:yes:

[Antman40]

No doubt about it fresh necks every trip.
less work than lips (and will out catch lips),cheaper than eel.
And yes I've used all the above.

WTF?:eek2:

you WERE a commercial.....

TONY