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capecodder · 09-14-2007, 01:37 PM

As a kid I would catch eels along with catfish in a river on my cousin's farm in SE Mass. We would eat them. One day we were cleaning our catch next to the river. We would put a nail through the eels head into a board to keep it in place. Then we would cut the skin around the eel's neck and with pliers pull it off towards the tail, much as if you were to use it on an eelskin plug. This one eel was a little frisky and we had trouble keeping him still for the procedure. But we succeeded.

However, after we got the skin off the thing kept on wriggelling around until it got loose from the board (and the nail through his head), slithered through the grass to the water, and swam away!!!

Tough little critters...

09-14-2007, 01:37 PM	#7
capecodder Registered User Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 343	As a kid I would catch eels along with catfish in a river on my cousin's farm in SE Mass. We would eat them. One day we were cleaning our catch next to the river. We would put a nail through the eels head into a board to keep it in place. Then we would cut the skin around the eel's neck and with pliers pull it off towards the tail, much as if you were to use it on an eelskin plug. This one eel was a little frisky and we had trouble keeping him still for the procedure. But we succeeded. However, after we got the skin off the thing kept on wriggelling around until it got loose from the board (and the nail through his head), slithered through the grass to the water, and swam away!!! Tough little critters...