the past 3 nights they simply won't eat eels. the last 2 nghts i've just taken my light 7' bonefish rod with 12 lb test and 6" slug-gos. did real well, they won't eat the live eels, but love plastic? took my "personal light tackle" best fish last night, it was 35 1/2 " maybe 17 lbs on a slug-go. it swam off just fine after i released it.