Thread: Silly boy and an eel

Does this young fella know about electric fences... make a great sequel.

Originally Posted by trapperjohn

Does this young fella know about electric fences... make a great sequel.

The prequels were a turkey attack, again all caught on video and being charged by a cow (more serious). He's done the electric fence thing. What next I wonder?

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Plucking a duck while sitting waist deep in waders on a log last season ,look down to see a massive eels head looking up at me in the crotch region,sat in the canoe and shot from it as well after that little experience,it’s head was easily the size of my fist.

Originally Posted by MB

The prequels were a turkey attack, again all caught on video and being charged by a cow (more serious). He's done the electric fence thing. What next I wonder?

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....tack-nz-60364/

This poor wee bugger can't catch a break, he will be traumatized for life.

He will either be too scared to ever venture outdoors or he will develope a blood lust and want to kill everything he comes across.

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

This poor wee bugger can't catch a break, he will be traumatized for life.

He will either be too scared to ever venture outdoors or he will develope a blood lust and want to kill everything he comes across.

It varies between the two. After the turkey thing, he wanted blood! He certainly seems to attract trouble that boy.

Originally Posted by MB

The prequels were a turkey attack, again all caught on video and being charged by a cow (more serious). He's done the electric fence thing. What next I wonder?

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....tack-nz-60364/

@MB I can see him starring in revamped Crumpy Hi Lux Ads in the future

When l was his age in the 70's we were running amuck in the Bush behind the Old Mans Cattle run & l was renowned for bringing home all sorts of orphaned critters & getting bitten , scratched etc ,so they got me a book by a Aussie bloke named Harry Butler , titled In The Wild with Harry Butler ,who was a world renowned naturalist and environmental consultant ,who had a very popular TV series of the same name travelling to remote areas & showing all the critters ,that ran through the 70's & 80's ,he ended up having something like a Dozen species named after him .

He really started me into a love & study of wild animals & exploration of remote places,he would be in jail now as he always carried a ,(l think from memory) ,a old Army & Navy .410 SXS shotty for collecting specimens & seed pods from trees. But he was always saying that the future of looking after wild life & wild places was to have a working relationship with it of "Look At It,Touch It, But Put It Back " & always said that is what Kids should be encouraged to do .

He also shaped the way l have always Hunted & Stalked, as he would go to great pains to show how quick movements would attract animals attention & how you can wear all the camouflaged gear you want, but white fellas exposed faces & hands etc light up like a beacon in the bush in sunlight & are totally foreign shapes in the bush to the animals ,so you have to make sure that is covered with a hat,veil etc to be really cammoed .
This post reminded me how much l enjoyed reading / watching him as a kid & l dug out the old book & put it into the pile of gear we moved down to the new Bach & will have a read of it again in the peace & quiet down there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Butler

Damn that was justice. lol Got a big one here that I have been feeding for about 4 years.Its favourite food seems to be trout frames.

My Grandfather told me a story of 'tickling trout' in the Heathcote river in ChCh. " Cripes theres a beaut under this bank" exclaimed Grand dad to his partner in crime. Next thing a huge eel had latched onto his thumb. He bore the scar till the day he died.
My father worked at the Antigua boat sheds opposite the ChCh Public Hospital on weekends and school holli's when he was 14 -15. In those days, the early 1950's the Hospital tipped all the congealed blood and trim from the days surgeries into the river every night. On the weekends the old man and his mates could take a 'punt' from the boatsheds out eeling and would be waiting at the pipe for 10 oclock ....

They train / learn quickly. Up in the BOP we had a small creek running through the property. It had a few small waterholes along it's length. I used to take eggs , shot rabbits down to one waterhole where an average sized eel lived.
I used to slap the water surface and within a minute or two he would turn up. In the end I could hand feed him / her , it was quite placid but with a supply of food it grew big quickly .
Cool animals , freaky but cool and not as dumb as they appear.

brilliant, and thats how learn, experience

While on the subject of eels, my youngest is doing a hunting and gathering exercise at the moment and pinged the big eel on the right with a pitchfork

I worked at a wildlife sanctuary one day a week when I was at school and sometimes we'd get marine birds that were injured in and we'd catch eels to feed them while they healed up. The ells used to hammer the ducklings pretty hard so they used to have an elling competition once a year to help keep the numbers down.

I told my mates it was coming up so four of us entered it looked like most of the other competitors were fathers with pretty small kids and we were all about 16 so we bush bashed through to the furthest side of the lake where the really big ones seemed to hang out while the families tried to their luck on the grass. It was pretty slow going at first but as the sun got lower we got more eels and the size only got bigger . We pulled the pin when it was on full dark and went back for the weigh in with the monsters we'd caught .

When we got to the weigh in we noticed the car park was pretty much empty and there was only a couple of staff cleaning up and they told us the comp had ended an hour ago, they'd dished out prizes and eveyone else had gone home. The worst part was the "winner" was so small our smallest eel would have eaten it for a snack.

Great vid got a great grandson just like him classic

Originally Posted by Dundee

Damn that was justice. lol Got a big one here that I have been feeding for about 4 years.Its favourite food seems to be trout frames.
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@Dundee they love duck or hare guts too...used to hunt on property in kingcountry...use to gut rabbits on bridge over wee creek you could just about jump over....only took a couple of trips untill the eels would be waiting for me,they must have heard/felt me shooting one even came out of water over a branch and back into creek....
was neat to see them so unworried about me being there,have seen big ones in lake opuha,they up to 12feet long..I know that as beside my 13 foot tinny.

Originally Posted by bunji

@MB I can see him starring in revamped Crumpy Hi Lux Ads in the future

When l was his age in the 70's we were running amuck in the Bush behind the Old Mans Cattle run & l was renowned for bringing home all sorts of orphaned critters & getting bitten , scratched etc ,so they got me a book by a Aussie bloke named Harry Butler , titled In The Wild with Harry Butler ,who was a world renowned naturalist and environmental consultant ,who had a very popular TV series of the same name travelling to remote areas & showing all the critters ,that ran through the 70's & 80's ,he ended up having something like a Dozen species named after him .

He really started me into a love & study of wild animals & exploration of remote places,he would be in jail now as he always carried a ,(l think from memory) ,a old Army & Navy .410 SXS shotty for collecting specimens & seed pods from trees. But he was always saying that the future of looking after wild life & wild places was to have a working relationship with it of "Look At It,Touch It, But Put It Back " & always said that is what Kids should be encouraged to do .

He also shaped the way l have always Hunted & Stalked, as he would go to great pains to show how quick movements would attract animals attention & how you can wear all the camouflaged gear you want, but white fellas exposed faces & hands etc light up like a beacon in the bush in sunlight & are totally foreign shapes in the bush to the animals ,so you have to make sure that is covered with a hat,veil etc to be really cammoed .
This post reminded me how much l enjoyed reading / watching him as a kid & l dug out the old book & put it into the pile of gear we moved down to the new Bach & will have a read of it again in the peace & quiet down there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Butler

Classic bunji