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Old 06-21-2009, 09:47 PM   #5
GonnaCatchABig1
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Originally Posted by Mike P View Post
Eels are catadromous. They're born in the salt, migrate and live most of their lives in the fresh, and survive equally well in both.
they don't do so bad out of water covered in ice either. tough little buggers. sometimes i almost feel bad givin them a tracheotomy and then sending them to possibly squirm around in stomach acids for a while... and then one gets it's tail around my line..... the feeling bad quickly ends.

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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