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American eel
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American eel
length · weight
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American eel go for natural baits and shrimps — but the best choice shifts with water conditions, season, and local pressure.
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American eels hold hidden in mud, submerged timber, and rocky crevices by day in rivers and coastal habitats, emerging at night to hunt, before eventually leaving fixed cover behind entirely to migrate through open ocean water to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.
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