we fish the palmunkey river near richmond va. last week for 2 days and came home with 40lb of fillets. we use cut eel. we buy them live at the bait shop . they are about a foot long,cut the in 1in chunks. they almost impossible to pull off a hook. some use shrimp,clam snouts,cut perch,herring,shad. any kind of fresh fish works really well. catch what ever is available and cut into chunks. use cicle hooks and they will hardly ever get off the hook.
This is interesting. We started using circle hooks years back, and caught almost nothing. Went back to Oshaugnessy and found they hadn't quit biting, just we started catching again.
On eels, never thought to use as bait, but know if you catch one, there isn't going to be anything else biting. For some reason.
