Jay said:
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5. A stripping basket makes a pretty decent, " Eel caddy."
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NOT! You want to have some good fun, try keeping an eel in a stripping basket.
Eels have amazing ability to get out of unlidded buckets. While I have never seen one levitate out of a standard 6 gallon wallboard paste bucket I have been amused to watch then climb out of lower 2 gallon buckets and attempt to slither away.
On the other hand a stripping basket makes a very good carrying device for about 25 pounds of bluefin steaks...