WOW……. $1,000 +per pound for the baby eels??60 years ago I would go jacking for eels with a friend just east of Goose Island in Massapequa. These were American Eels. We would use my grandmothers 16’ Cobia which was powered with IIRC a 60hp Johnson. She had a beachfront house down at the end of Division Ave, Jomar Court actually. We would usually go out on an early morning low tide when the bay would be flat calm, and get on the upwind side of the flats. We would raise up the engine and let the wind blow us across the shallow bay. Between the two of us we could fill up a garbage pail full of eels on one tide. Most were big too. We would sell them around the neighborhood 3 for $1. We made pretty good money for a couple of 10 year olds. LOL, at today’s prices we would’ve been a couple of 10 year old millionaires!!
My grandmother, who emigrated from Sicily, and a great cook, would fry one up for dinner. She taught me how to skin the eel too, like taking a sock off. She probably more than anyone else got me hooked on fishing.
