Thread: Eels

my late father used to shoot a private lake at rotomanu(in fact he died duckshooting) and always remember him saying if you dropped a duck it was a race between you and the eels. years later cuzzie&iwere on this farm eeling in the outlet creek.bugger me framers wife lost a chookthat morning -stuck its beek in the water and wallop. well bugger me ginger chucks line in with as little bit of old possum on it and whammo it erupted death spins by the score before we managed to wrestle it up the bank and deliver the death knock
guilty ads fucking charged your honour -a complete chookleg in its guts!
the cockies son killed one with a shovel one day as it made a crack at him standing on the boat trailer in bare feet.it apparently was recognisable by a part missing fin and had adopted this tactic.noone knew why it had such shit on its liver but petes deft useof the shovel appeared to remedy the problem.
another good way to get em is ye old bob maori and pakeha used this .get a lump of liver heart or even a kidney or just a lump of beef.wrap it securely in fine cotton or nylon -ty her onto some hefty line and dangle it in the hole old slimy willcome up curious mouth it and his rear sloping teeth get entwined in the thread! my best -a 26lber out of the moonlight creek after grandad killed a sheep and dropped the guts in .we actually had a smaller eel on our line (made from grannies finest NZ post office string)until this hidous monstrosity slid from under the rock we stood on and proceeded to devour the poor bastard.we x3 hauled it in and killed it mreifully before dropping remains back in -yup gargantuan resumed what it thought was a free meal but we all3 hauling in tandem won the day.
after weighing it grandad said give it to old lucy the pig and her piglets.
whoa
what was left -a skin so clean you could have eaten off it and a fat old sow smacking her chops with a contented grin.
shed do the same to possums -clean skin with 4 sets of claws and if shed eaten earlier part of the skull.
yup was enough to heed grandads warning not to get close to her when her piglets were close!!