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09-05-2009, 01:51 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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An eeler's (almost) lament
So my 5 year old son and I are walking around the block this AM with my neighbor and his 4 year old son. My son suggests they head over to our back yard to check out Daddy's eel tank. I'm standing in my driveway BSing with my neighbor when my neighbor's son comes around the corner as if he was being chased by a bear, I mean he's really screaming 
Little did I know my son pays very close attention to my eel tactics, particularly the tank cleaning. Before attempting to clean the tank out by dumping it over on the ground, he neglected to remove the two dozen hand selected beauties and everything simply washed over the steep embankment behind my house and into the heavy brush.  Knowing the importance of this event, he immediately summoned me to the back yard where I observed the last eel slithering away into the leaves. He informed me his new little friend was very scared and ran away, around the other side of the house so the eels wouldn’t eat him 
Anyways, armed with a leaf rake and bottle of IPA, I searched the accident site and recovered nearly every last eel. 
Afterwards I praised my little guy for doing the right thing and telling me right away. He chuckled as the last eel plopped safely back into the holding tank, albeit a little bewildered. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-05-2009, 02:03 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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LOL. no harm no foul
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-05-2009, 02:21 PM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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Mike, that is hilarious. Do you notice your eels turning pale with the white cooler? Or are they not in it long enough? I had a dozen in a light blue container and after a week they were turning very olive and light.
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Go Ugly Early 
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09-05-2009, 02:48 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Hehehe 
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Originally Posted by tynan19
Mike, that is hilarious. Do you notice your eels turning pale with the white cooler? Or are they not in it long enough? I had a dozen in a light blue container and after a week they were turning very olive and light.
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I found that leaving them in a white cooler in water they tend to lighten fairly quick, but left in a white bucket with ice melting down (the Keep Cool Eel Bucket) , out of any light, but not swimming in water that the eels darken. After a couple days they are nice and black colored. |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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09-05-2009, 03:01 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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More likely the kid is a future plugger.......but just lost his nerve.
Did your wife get a picture of you raking eels?
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09-05-2009, 03:26 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Kids!! Ya can't beat em'!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-05-2009, 03:50 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Sure you can but your gonna get in trouble if anyone sees you 
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Originally Posted by BigFish
Kids!! Ya can't beat em'! |
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09-06-2009, 12:33 AM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
Posts: 2,251
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09-06-2009, 02:30 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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...and are they all covered with leaves and dead grass???
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No boat, back in the suds. 
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09-06-2009, 05:06 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
More likely the kid is a future plugger.......but just lost his nerve.
Did your wife get a picture of you raking eels?
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Where have you been pops? I was beginning to worry. As for the picture, my wife would probably drop dead if she witnessed me doing anything resembling work around the house. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-06-2009, 10:06 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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That young man has a future, Mike... 
Yup, he'll be a salty old eel slinger by the time he hits his teens...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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09-07-2009, 06:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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It was the hand of God working through your son's but alas the devil intervened and called you to your wicked work of collecting the vile serpents. 
BTW, God is a plug fisherman. |
Why even try......... 
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09-07-2009, 06:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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They don't work well in the back yard Mike.Please post a pic of you in the wetsuit and substitute an eel for the potato.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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09-08-2009, 10:36 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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Funny Stuff, BB!!
Nice SAVE on the woods eels.
GREAT pic of the future of Striper Coast New England!!! |
"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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09-09-2009, 02:25 AM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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LMAO haha
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09-09-2009, 07:54 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 492
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really funny. You're a good Dad not to yell at him. I'd like to think I wouldn't, but.....
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09-09-2009, 08:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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very cute story, I can relate, many years ago, I kept a tank in the basement to house the extra eels I trapped, less the pilferers scoff them from my keeper kept under the dock, my son, was about 8 at the time, loved to check in on the serpants... imagine my surprise when i went down to clean the tank and discovered a rotting.. stinking mess... JR. had inadvertantly unplugged the filter and air supply... leaving the old man with a stinking rotting mess that had to be carried up the stairs one stinking 5 gallon bucket at a time and burried in the back yard...upon reflection.. maybe thati s why i started building plugs...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-09-2009, 10:31 AM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
Posts: 693
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Great stories Mike and Joe reminds me when our granddaughter was 5 or 6 and had a kiddie pool in our back yard. One of those blowup 5-6fters. Well it seams that Meagan found my eels behind the house and dumped them in her pool and than climbed in with the eels. By the time i got home she had names for them and i had a whole house full of women that would not let me get them back. By the following day the gulls had a ball and I had to find some new fishing pets
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