When you save a couple of eels, after a nights fishing, do not get busy and forget about them. Had a nice surprise stench in my truck this am. lucky it was trash day. That is all.

Also, there is nothing like a slime filled eel bag sitting in the back of your SUV all day when the interior hits close to 105 degrees. I almost puked when I was poking around in there on my lunch break.

I got a good one for you.A friend and I were going to Gansett one night we grabbed a dozen eels each when, we arrived at the water it was blowing pretty hard so we decided to try th next morning.I get home and have a great idea to put the eels in the fridge to keep them cool. I put them in a small bait bucket that I thought I closed the top all the way.I forget to set the alarm and get woken up with my wife screaming what the hell is this.All I could do is lay in bed and laugh my azz off.Of course I never lived that one down.

heh heh heh ........ way to funny :grins:

Several years ago I had my sister in law living with us for the summer and she was prone to midnight raids on the fridge. Well one night she openned what she thought was a box of canollis - surprise it was a box of real snakey seaworms - I can still hear the scream:rotf2:

When you save a couple of eels, after a nights fishing, do not get busy and forget about them. Had a nice surprise stench in my truck this am. lucky it was trash day. That is all.


Nice!!!

I left a few in my truck from last night and one of the suckers was still alive....it was hot in there.

about 15-18 years back, a younger brother had picked up a few lobsters for a friend, and put them in a cooler in the trunk of his Camero. Unfortunately, the cooler got bounced around and opened, allowing the critters free roam of the trunk. He found (what he thought was) all of them, but a week or so later he was greeted with the ungodlinest stench he could imagine. It wasn't until he literally took the trunk apart that he found the dried remains of one of the lobsters that had crawled up into the chasis of the car.
I still laugh about that one.

What a bad stench, luckily it cleared out pretty quick and went back to smelling like wet waders. Almost made feel bad for tying dead herrings/pogies/eels on peoples mufflers when i was young. FishermanTim, had an experience somewhat like that when I was young. I lived in a house with some buddies. One of whom was a commercial lobsterman at the time. He used to store blue barrels of bait under the porch, talk about a stench. Anyway, we use to have a couple pops and go out pull a few of his pots for late night lobsters. One night we had way to much to drink and forgot about the boiling lobsters. We awoke to black smoke and the most god awful stank in the house. Luckily one of our buddies who was not with us for the evening heard the smoke alarms and got up before anything was set ablaze. Had to throw out all the curtains... the house smelled for a long time. When you drink, order pizza.

When I was in law school, I usually left my car at my sister's house in RI. I was home for Columbus Day and went fishing down the Cape, and apparently one of my eels escaped from the bucket and found its way under the back seat. Parked the car in her yard, locked it up tight, went inside to sleep, and the next day, she dropped me off at the train station in Providence. Car stayed locked up tight until December, when my sis decided she'd start it up and let the battery charge for awhile. It was quite an "experience" for her when she opened the door :yak6: