Thread: Eel scoffs sparroow!

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

I saw a Shag fall off a post & into the water behind it at my Dad farms, strangely there was some blood around it for some reason, not too sure how it got there ?
Anyway I was watching the said enforced diver & a dirty great eel came out from a piece of cover & proceeded to grap it, pull it completely under & spin it around for a while, then he took it & stashed up under the bank.
It was an amazing spectacle, the eel would have gone 8 ish pounds from my very distant eeling memories.

When I was a young fella on a youth group Trip(is that what its called? church thing) remember putting sheeps gut in a sack in the lee at night tied to the bank. The black writhing mass in the torch light a few hours later was something to remember, a ball of eels about 1m in diameter and some of them were big fu%kers. Sort of took the shine off night swimming in that river