Thread: Best way to kill an eel quickly?

Used to make pocket money off eels. The tail thing is half myth half true. All the main nerves in an eel end in the tail, so by bashing an eel on the tail hard enough will stop the wriggle, however this only stuns them(paralises them). All fish have a brain so the most humane way to dispatch is the same as any animal (head)
Also no need to skin them, put em in a tub of water and add copiuos salt to strip the slime off, if youre a bad ass, laundry powder is even better.
End of the day let them go. They are far to presious to eat these days.

12gauge and the concussion kills them without and stabbing required!

Best way to improve stocks is stop catching them commercially.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Best way to improve stocks is stop catching them commercially.

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whitebait should probably come under that category as well.

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

whitebait should probably come under that category as well.

Might stop a few feuds as well.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Best way to improve stocks is stop catching them commercially.

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Wish someone would eel out one of my duck ponds. Its filthy with them.
Big buggers as well.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Best way to improve stocks is stop catching them commercially.

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And using 1080 around the streams they live in. Many animals make it into water and die to become food for eels.

Smack it on the head,cut the tail on a 45degree angle to bleed it.

Eels account for hundreds of ducklings and fish roe and little fish every year...yes, their massive journey to mate is extraordinary but no less than that of salmon et al Not all go...the big monsters with the curly whiskers who delight in harassing you when you're doing the dishes on the side of creek or river, are thought to be maidens/barren females who for whatever reason decide not to go...no one is quite sure about why they do not go.

Smoked eel is divine and hell will freeze over before I stop taking the odd one...

I cannot understand why there are not licensing / catch restrictions on whitebait. The "Take all you can" culture is not sustainable and something that should have been addressed a few years ago. Unfortunatly it will take a fishery collapse for something to change.... go clean green NZ!!!!

Not MORE licences !!! theres not many things you can do for free these days...but maybe like you say a limit on the catch or slightly shorter season would help along with some cleaner rivers!

@Boaraxa

Just what is the annual take of whitebait...? Does any one know this...? As far as I have been able to ascertain from personal experience and that of others is that whitebaiting, not unlike Opening Day on the pond is more of a culture thing than a harvest, well that too, I grant you but...also in my experience you are pretty much limited to catch anyway due to the vagrancies of the wonderful pastime...

Old people have a lot to answer for from the story's they tell me on the river if they are to be believed

Originally Posted by Toby

Old people have a lot to answer for if they are to be believed

Old people should always be believed Toby. None of us talk shit or take the piss.

I believe whitebait decline is mostly habitat destruction and secondly fishing.
most swamps have been drained for farming.

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