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06-21-2009, 03:37 PM
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Location: Whitman, Ma
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Eels - fresh water to salt water?
Quick question. I'm building an eel trap. If I catch them in a fresh water river far from the ocean, will they survive if i cast them live into salt water? Thanks........BigJim
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06-21-2009, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
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I dont think it will matter, i keep em in a lake and bring them to the salt and i assume bait shops keep em in fresh water.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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06-21-2009, 04:12 PM
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woody
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Port St Lucie Fla.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler
I dont think it will matter, i keep em in a lake and bring them to the salt and i assume bait shops keep em in fresh water.
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06-21-2009, 07:49 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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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.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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06-21-2009, 09:47 PM
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must find the fish
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Shore Ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
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.
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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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06-21-2009, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: CT
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no problems- I just dump my leftover eels from the salt into a big cooler with hose water & a small airstone until I use them the next week.
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06-22-2009, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Whitman, Ma
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Thanks for the info fellas. Much appreciated  |
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