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.
Microscopic EELS. See ANIMALCULE, No 8.