Things You'll Need
- Eel trap
- Crushed crab pieces
Instructions
Set up the trap with crushed crab meat on its trigger or triggers. (Eels are scavengers and prefer to eat the dead carcasses of other sea creatures, especially crab.) Add at least 2 oz. of crab meat to each trigger.
Open the side door of the trap and ensure that it will stay open properly. Set the trap just off a beach; eels are nocturnal and bury themselves in shallow sand during the day, so it is best to set traps off of a pier that settles at least 20 feet offshore.
Set the traps just after sunset. As soon as the sky is fully dark, the eels will rise from the sand and scavenge. After the eels swim into the trap and eat the crab meat, the door will close shut and the eels will be ready to be harvested the next morning.