SR night Wed / Thurs - PB

[ratherbe]

Nabbed my PB EEL at SR on Wed night. Ha. Sorry for the terrible pic - it was about 11pm chasing cats / whipers. Love that lake, always seems to surprise even when low. We did pretty good for a 3 hour trip 10-1, lots of action. Couple stripers, few channels & perch.

Went back last night, bite was completely different. Managed to beat the skunk but it was slow....and chilly....

Good times always

[Chrisper4694]

what time were you there? i was there before dark and had the craziest 2 hour window i've ever seen...gulls everywhere rockets eating everything in site! I was on my little tin can boat and left at dark though. If i was you, try to get out there today before 6:30 and see if you can catch a repeat!

I've still never caught an eel, but i rarely use bait and idk how inclined they are to hit a lure...that looks like a pretty big one though!

[MudCat08]

How big was that eel? and did you weight it.
Sounds like SR still has some action left (assuming you were not on a boat).

[ratherbe]

Both nights - wed & Thurs - we arrived around 9.30 or so. Wed fishing was great, thurs was slow. We were getting constant & strong hits on wed, and plenty of healthy fish....including the eel which was definitely 30+" although we didn't measure. It was going bananas in and out of the water..... Wish we had more time with it but we wanted to make sure it slithered away fine. On Thursday it was smaller hits, hard to get anything on the hook. We did manage a few fish but it was a grind.

As always Lots of fun. we heard plenty of surface action over the wind. Sr has plenty of life left, Ill fish it deep into October before heading to rvr to finish out the season. Last year I caught some pretty sizable hybrids & bronze in oct.

[Eskimo]

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That's a weird catch for SRR.

All eels are born in the Sargasso Sea about a 1000 miles off the coast of Florida. That's why we see them most often in water directly connected to the ocean like the Delaware River.

For an eel to blunder into Spruce Run, it would have had to swim up from the Bahamas, ascend a river from the ocean and then somehow find their way into other streams that feed into Spruce Run. It's possible, but it would require a very circuitous route.

EDIT: here is a documentary on eels if you're into nerdy things like ichthyology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25u5U6Yobso


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[Jigman13]

Had them hitting Herring on the troll with dale one evening. 40+' ft of water, 10-20' down. Suspending with cats and brids. Very strange. Prob get pumped in as elvers or fry from the big d. Same with rvr. That make sense?

[XXlyakattacker]

Well how did you do? I was there one morning a week or so ago and the fish were jumping a lot but I couldn't get one to hit my lure.

Originally Posted by Chrisper4694

what time were you there? i was there before dark and had the craziest 2 hour window i've ever seen...gulls everywhere rockets eating everything in site! I was on my little tin can boat and left at dark though. If i was you, try to get out there today before 6:30 and see if you can catch a repeat!

I've still never caught an eel, but i rarely use bait and idk how inclined they are to hit a lure...that looks like a pretty big one though!

[ratherbe]

We catch them all the time in SBR, got a pretty good one at camp Carr earlier this season. Heard there are monsters in the musky as well although I've not fished it.

This was my first in SR - Livers on bottom rig.

[acabtp]

they're all over and bigger than people expect. they get everywhere because the elvers can climb vertical rocks etc. i had one about 3' long scare the crap out of me last year when it bumped me as it swam between my legs as i was standing waist deep at the edge of a pool trout fishing on the black river.