The eel is a bottom-dwelling fish that prefers to burrow in still water or slow running water with a muddy bottom. During the day, it lurks in its underwater burrow and doesn't move. It feeds at night, especially in the summer. It feeds mainly on zooplankton, aquatic insects, crustaceans, and small fish. Feeding is done by slurping. When the eel feels a small animal in his mouth, he will open his mouth and take a sip.

Eel is a kind of carnivorous fish, commonly used in trapping eel bait there are three kinds of bait, one is natural bait, such as livestock offal, earthworms, red worms, snails mussels, etc., the other is a heavy fishy commercial bait or nesting material for catching crucian carp, carp, yellow catfish, and the other is a homemade bait made from soybean meal, wheat bran, rice bran, shrimp meal, fishmeal, bone meal and so on. To make the cage: weave bamboo strips into a bamboo cage 30-40 centimeters high and 15 centimeters in diameter, and weave 5-8 thin bamboo pieces at the lower end of the cage.

Making bait: take a bamboo tube of suitable length and diameter as a bait tube, make several 6-7cm-long openings on it, and then put in fresh bait such as earthworms, pig's liver and small fish. Trap cage: Insert the bait tube into the trap cage, plug the mouth of the cage, and finally put it under the water to trap eels by weaving the bamboo strips with barbs into a bamboo cage. Requirements for the two ends of the thin, height 30-40 centimeters, diameter 15 centimeters.

Meanwhile, the bottom opening is closed and the top opening is open. The diameter is big enough for you to put your hand in. Weave 5-8 thin bamboo strips 7-8 centimeters from the lower end of the bamboo cage so that it forms the inverted whiskers of the small opening. The diameter of the small opening is about 5 centimeters so that the eels can enter the cage freely. However, it is necessary to open the bamboo cage. The eel is a bottom-dwelling fish that prefers to hole up in still water or slow running water with a muddy bottom.

During the day, it lurks in its underwater burrow and does not move. It feeds at night, especially in the summer. It feeds mainly on zooplankton, aquatic insects, crustaceans, and small fish. Feeding is done by slurping. When the eel senses a small animal in his mouth, he will open his mouth and take a sip. Eel is a kind of carnivorous fish, there are three kinds of bait commonly used to trap eel, one is natural bait, such as livestock offal, earthworms, red worms, snails mussels and so on.