Thread: Eels

Geeze R93 you'd be an old bugger now.I joined the green machine in 89

Originally Posted by Dundee

Geeze R93 you'd be an old bugger now.I joined the green machine in 89

My plan was to join the blue lot in '83.

part time green machine 77-91 and enjoyed every bloody minute.pity thew rest of NZ didnt display as much discipline today!

Originally Posted by Dundee

Geeze R93 you'd be an old bugger now.I joined the green machine in 89

Still in my 40's mate
Went to one of my best mates and his twin brothers 50th last weekend. (never drinking again)
The silly old fart a while ago suggested we combine all of ours.
I was horrified!! I am nowhere near 50. Its friggen months away

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Been bitten by an eel when I was a young fella and they put the shits right up me now. Was wading along under some willows in shoulder deep water with my arms outstretched and the bloody thing latched onto my armpit, screamed and yelled and managed to get out of the water with the horrid thing still hanging on, got it off me in the end and it left quite a mark. I'm very cautious about dark water now

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Been bitten by an eel when I was a young fella and they put the shits right up me now. Was wading along under some willows in shoulder deep water with my arms outstretched and the bloody thing latched onto my armpit, screamed and yelled and managed to get out of the water with the horrid thing still hanging on, got it off me in the end and it left quite a mark. I'm very cautious about dark water now

Shit it must have liked your deodorant or lack of it. Don't go for a swim in the Amazon, those ones will really shock you!

mate got a sweet bite on his thigh at the local swimming hole. Left a good mark alright.

One of my duck ponds needs cleaning out.
Had a mate commercially do it around 10 yrs ago. He pulled out 300kgs in a couple nights.
It is only waste deep at its deepest and around 100m long.

My last dog had a tug of war with one trying to retrieve a duck a few years ago. He lost


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anybody ever see the Nz edition of the TV show featuring that bloke jeremy wade.he specialises in trying to catch maneating fish allover the world.he ended up here on the coast and in sth westalnd tangling with some of the big boys.shoulda seen his eyes when he saw hokitikas waterworld big boy?47lb mk- only to be told its big brother was also in residence but must be asleep.!!!!!
down to lake manapouri and tales of its monsters .
then a hind carcasse was put in a backwash with TV cameras set up round it whilst he was hootchied up with the TV monitor.man the behaviour of those eels hittin that carcasse would bring a tear of joy to any aussie crocs eye.scream in latch on spin like a supercharged bloody clothes dryer until pulling out with lumps of meat in jaws.

finally in an act of bravado bordering i think on psychotic -he dressed in a wetsuit with chainmail over suit covers himself in a mix of oil/fish guts and god knows what other delicacies and wades into a wais tdeep backwash
overhead view clear brown water suddenly blackened by a huge mob of hungry eels .
he yelled calf as a big brutes nose started to nudge around his crown jewels.however he did feel at least three bites even in chainmail.

IIRC hed heard of a young lass severely torn by eels which had developed a habit of killing stranded ewes in the farm creek somewhere in central NI and wanted to prove fact or fiction.

hmmmm-at end of programme he was certainly less cocky than when he started.
R93-am i correct instating the big buggers in waterworlds tank originated from stock Bert Vanderdrift rejected when he was eel processing on southshore- Ive also heard they were used for "green" offal disposal by the fish processors .bit like living on prime fillet steak 24 /7 /365 eh what.

eh while i remeber younger sister in her early TV production days did a "make a wish" type reality TV programme. anyhow she put the youngest sister inour family in with the diver to feed the buggers.Tessy B hated eels -was bloody hilarious to see one big fat one wrap himself round her head covering mask and all.
apparently she ex ed the tank like a submarine ballistic missile
we reminded her of it recently -shit if looks were a slaughtermans knife i wouldnt be typing this .even her hubby got told where to go in language most unbecoming of a good catholic girl!

My Grandad blew one up in the local creek with gelenight after he came home after the great War.Apparently it was over 100lbs and use to eat the ducks.There was an article about the Tiratu monster published in the Dannevirke gazzette. We have tried to search it up at the local library but I think dad is the only one left that vaguely remembers the story.

Originally Posted by Dundee

My Grandad blew one up in the local creek with gelenight after he came home after the great War.Apparently it was over 100lbs and use to eat the ducks.There was an article about the Tiratu monster published in the Dannevirke gazzette. We have tried to search it up at the local library but I think dad is the only one left that vaguely remembers the story.

PM Rushy. He probably gave your grandad the gelenight

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When I was a lad a mate and I would go down the local river with his dads single shot 22 and we would take turns as the rock turner over and the shooter turning over rocks and shooting bootlaces (small eels) Looking back it is a bit of a shame but we probably didnt shoot that many...turn over 10-15 rocks for one....We were obviously very carefull or bloody lucky(the later I think) not to get a injury from a ricochet.
We had a few ponds dad had dug on the small farm and I vividly remember one night the eels out in the paddocks in the rain heading for the road and ditch, no idea why they didnt just use the ditches connecting the ponds and heading to the road.

The biggest eel I ever saw was walking over a swing bridge over the 3mile or 5mile? south of Okorito around 30 years ago.. it looked for all the world like a log on the bottom but it slowly swam holding position....being barely a sprat myself I imagined it could swallow me whole like a python.

Originally Posted by kotuku

anybody ever see the Nz edition of the TV show featuring that bloke jeremy wade.he specialises in trying to catch maneating fish allover the world.he ended up here on the coast and in sth westalnd tangling with some of the big boys.shoulda seen his eyes when he saw hokitikas waterworld big boy?47lb mk- only to be told its big brother was also in residence but must be asleep.!!!!!
down to lake manapouri and tales of its monsters .
then a hind carcasse was put in a backwash with TV cameras set up round it whilst he was hootchied up with the TV monitor.man the behaviour of those eels hittin that carcasse would bring a tear of joy to any aussie crocs eye.scream in latch on spin like a supercharged bloody clothes dryer until pulling out with lumps of meat in jaws.

finally in an act of bravado bordering i think on psychotic -he dressed in a wetsuit with chainmail over suit covers himself in a mix of oil/fish guts and god knows what other delicacies and wades into a wais tdeep backwash
overhead view clear brown water suddenly blackened by a huge mob of hungry eels .
he yelled calf as a big brutes nose started to nudge around his crown jewels.however he did feel at least three bites even in chainmail.

IIRC hed heard of a young lass severely torn by eels which had developed a habit of killing stranded ewes in the farm creek somewhere in central NI and wanted to prove fact or fiction.

hmmmm-at end of programme he was certainly less cocky than when he started.
R93-am i correct instating the big buggers in waterworlds tank originated from stock Bert Vanderdrift rejected when he was eel processing on southshore- Ive also heard they were used for "green" offal disposal by the fish processors .bit like living on prime fillet steak 24 /7 /365 eh what.

eh while i remeber younger sister in her early TV production days did a "make a wish" type reality TV programme. anyhow she put the youngest sister inour family in with the diver to feed the buggers.Tessy B hated eels -was bloody hilarious to see one big fat one wrap himself round her head covering mask and all.
apparently she ex ed the tank like a submarine ballistic missile
we reminded her of it recently -shit if looks were a slaughtermans knife i wouldnt be typing this .even her hubby got told where to go in language most unbecoming of a good catholic girl!

I am not 100% on this mate but I was told most of the eels were taken from the ponds outside the factory.
When I worked there they only took eels of a certain size depending on order.
So big ones generally got released into the ponds. We used to eat our lunch and feed the buggers tid bits of the jetty.

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My aunt's place up north has brown trout and eels in the creek that runs along it. We fed them heaps of dead possum over the weekend and some of them were pretty big.

We even used to have them at the local creek down the road my childhood home. We'd take the left over bones and stuff from the roast dinner and feed them. And then someone dumped some rubbish and all sorts of nasty stuff and they disappeared. Don't think ive seen one for 10 years.

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Bloody loopies think it’s good fun to feed them, makes swimming there bit scary, I’m scared of the bloody things