Thread: Eel scoffs sparroow!

Only photos....never witnessed an eel doing the death roll before but saw it.
Those pics were blury of course but this was amazing watch.

You'd have to wonder? with no feet or arms how the hell they go over so many times

I saw a Shag fall off a post & into the water behind it at my Dad farms, strangely there was some blood around it for some reason, not too sure how it got there ?
Anyway I was watching the said enforced diver & a dirty great eel came out from a piece of cover & proceeded to grap it, pull it completely under & spin it around for a while, then he took it & stashed up under the bank.
It was an amazing spectacle, the eel would have gone 8 ish pounds from my very distant eeling memories.

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

I saw a Shag fall off a post & into the water behind it at my Dad farms, strangely there was some blood around it for some reason, not too sure how it got there ?
Anyway I was watching the said enforced diver & a dirty great eel came out from a piece of cover & proceeded to grap it, pull it completely under & spin it around for a while, then he took it & stashed up under the bank.
It was an amazing spectacle, the eel would have gone 8 ish pounds from my very distant eeling memories.

When I was a young fella on a youth group Trip(is that what its called? church thing) remember putting sheeps gut in a sack in the lee at night tied to the bank. The black writhing mass in the torch light a few hours later was something to remember, a ball of eels about 1m in diameter and some of them were big fu%kers. Sort of took the shine off night swimming in that river