| Title: | Fishing-V2: All About Angling |
| Notice: | Time to go fishin'! day egins |
| Moderator: | WAHOO::LEVESQUE |
| Created: | Fri Jul 19 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 548 |
| Total number of notes: | 9621 |
I am moving this from the Bass Notes file to here, I thought
I was in the Fishing Notes file when I did it...
fresh Water eels
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I did not know that one can catch eels in Northwood Lake.
I got one last weekend that was about 18 inch long and a
few inches in dia.
I released it, but later wonder what does an eel eat, etc.
Is it a good thing to have in a lake, or does it eat fish eggs etc.
Several old timers told me they are good eating, but no one could
remember how to clean on or what size would be good.
And my 3rd question, what would you normally use to catch them,
and where do you normally find them.
thanks john
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Note 317.1 fresh Water eels 1 of 3
TAMDNO::WHITMAN "the 2nd Amend protects the other 9" 30 lines 21-JUN-1994 08:37
-< But that was 30 years ago >-
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< I released it, but later wonder what does an eel eat, etc.
I don't know what they eat as a matter of day to day living, but we used to
catch them with cut bait or with mussels. I expect they'd eat carrion.
< Is it a good thing to have in a lake, or does it eat fish eggs etc.
I always assumed they were part of the natural food chain and therefore were
were beneficial..
< Several old timers told me they are good eating, but no one could
< remember how to clean on or what size would be good.
We used to skin them like you would a bullhead. Slit open the belly to
remove the entrails and pull the skin off with pliers.
< And my 3rd question, what would you normally use to catch them,
< and where do you normmaly find them.
Most of the eels we caught were in a feeder creek of a mill pond. The
line was rigged with a 1/2 oz bell sinker about 18 inches above the hook.
We'd fish off the bridge, cast upstream and let the bait bounce along the
muddy bottom back to us, taking in the line as it came. Occasionally we'd
get them from under the bridge, but very seldom down stream where the
channel opened up and the speed of the flow slowed. Usually we were fishing
for the bullheads when we'd get the eels.
Al
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Note 317.2 fresh Water eels 2 of 3
RANGER::MACINTYRE "Terminal Angler" 3 lines 21-JUN-1994 10:37
-< awful skinny bass... >-
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I agree with some of the earlier comments that much of this
stuff could be covered in fishing notes, but this one is real
blatant... how about taking this one next store john...
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| 395.1 | $0.02 | GEMVAX::JOHNHC | Tue Jun 21 1994 14:55 | 34 | |
Well, first, I've got to say that the creature we're talking about it
known by the plain old name "American Eel." They've got the same things
in Europe, so I guess you can take this one as just another case of
American presumptuousness.
They're omnivores. They'll eat small fish, carrion, invertebrates, or
just about anything else, as far as I know.
Eels are a favored food in much of the world. Keep in mind that in much
of the world the idea of clean water is so far beyond the realm of
possibilities that few folks even think about the water their food is
coming out of.
The easiest way to catch eels is to use an eel trap. If you are looking
for eels with a baited hook, you'll probably catch more bullheads
(hornpouts) than eels. Bullheads can't get into an eel trap.
The most polluted water I have ever been in -- it was a veritable soup
of carcinogens and straightforwardly hazardous substances -- had no
life at all on the bottom except for an eel. There we were, making our
way slowly through light-absorbing hydrogen sulfide soup, when I
encountered an eel. The eel froze for a second and then took off.
I regard that incident as proof that an eel can survive in conditions
that won't even support sludgeworms. The healthfulness of an eel's
flesh is something you maybe ought to think about, bearing in mind that
eels can move over land from one body of water to another if the ground
is sufficiently wet for them to slither like a snake. The eel you catch
may have come from a much more polluted body of water.
FWIW
John H-C
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| 395.2 | traped it | ECADSR::BIRO | Tue Jun 21 1994 15:08 | 9 | |
I should have said I traped the Eel not caugth the Eel,
I found the Eel in my Craw Fish trap this weekend. There
must be a hole in the trap somewhere, but I could not find it.
THe entrance for the crawfish trap is about 1 1/4 " dia.
thanks john
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| 395.3 | SEND::STORM | Tue Jun 21 1994 15:56 | 7 | ||
You might me interested to know that your eel (along with the
European eels) were born approximately 1,000 miles away in the
middle of the Atlantic. Quite an interesting life cycle those
guys have.
Mark,
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| 395.4 | PCCAD::RICHARDJ | Living With A Honky Tonk Attitude | Thu Jun 23 1994 17:43 | 6 | |
My grandfather use to catch and eat eel. I had some when I was a kid
and remember it being delicious. They are very oily, so my grandmother
use to boil it before deep frying it in order to take some of the oil
out.
Jim
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| 395.5 | Smoke them | HOWICK::VETTE | Sheep are natural blondes | Thu Jun 23 1994 20:58 | 12 |
Smoked eel is very nice - a lot more appetising than any oher form of
cooking for the wriggly things.
As a child I used to catch eels in a creek in the street I lived in. On
one occasion, some friends and I dammed the creek, caught all the eels
by hand that were in the mud in the bottom of the creek and put them in
an fish pond about 30 metres from the creek. About half an hour later,
all the eels (no exceptions) had made their way out of the pond, across
a driveway and down a bank back into the creek. I guess they just
wanted to be back in the mud.
Lindsay
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| 395.6 | AYOV16::SROBERTSON | Mon Aug 01 1994 09:56 | 3 | ||
Caught a freshwater eel the other day - it was nibblin' at a
rainbow trout head - a quick and lucky strike got it - was quite long
about 36in. and eighed about two pounds - good pike bait.
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