EEL-FISHING. See BOBBING and SNIGGLING.
The silver-eel may be caught with several sorts of baits, as powdered-beef, garden-worms, minnows, hens-guts, fish-garbage, &c. The most proper time for taking them is in the night, fastening your line to the bank sides, with your laying-hook in the water: or a line may be thrown with good store of hooks, baited and plumbed, with a float to discover where the line lies, that they may be taken up in the morning.