Thread: Eels

Some good reading here.


https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/taniwh...mpaign=Taniwha

Originally Posted by Dundee

Some good reading here.


https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/taniwh...mpaign=Taniwha

Bloody good read

Originally Posted by Dundee

Some good reading here.


https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/taniwh...mpaign=Taniwha

I find them fascinating creatures. Having harassed them as kids by overturning rocks in the creek and squealing like little girls while trying to flick them out on to the bank, then as we got older, assigned to sack duty while following the uncles up the creek with a gaff using a quartered tire wired to a fence batten and used as a torch which was lit by a small fire on the bank, graduating to operating the gaff with younger cousins, nieces and nephews on sack duty. All prepped and eaten with great delight.

Nowadays, I set the hinaki (using marmite and grated cheese as a lure), show the moko and tell them about their amazing life cycle, take a heap of digitals and release them quietly back into the water.

I love eating them, I just don't like killing them anymore...