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An old-time method of adding weight to an eel is to make an eel bob as shown in Fig. 114. Here you cut off the eel's head, pull the skin back for about two inches, and cut out the meat. Then you rig the eel with one or two hooks in the regular way and insert a cylindrical lead weight into the skin. The lead weight should have a hole through the middle so that the line or chain used in rigging can be run into it and out in front. After this is done the skin of the eel is tied ahead of the lead weight, concealing it and keeping it in place. Such an eel bob can be made any length using most of the eel or just the head portion. Figure 114. Eel bob.
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