Going to be some big eels on the news tonight...Ch 1:)
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Going to be some big eels on the news tonight...Ch 1:)
Was hunting up the Repia with my father...after breakfast he went downstream and I went upstream...mooching along quietly, I had that feeling that someone or something was watching me... I looked towards the stream and there was a monster eel with its head out of the water...it kept on following me...further on up I shot a yearling hind begging it not to fall in the water :o...those big eels give me the complete willies!!!!
L Waikaremoana is another place with giants
Couple of big ones on the wall of the Tuai working mens club too Scribe & report of a very big trout caught below the tail race there at the hydro.
Dads got another one
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Geeze thats a very shallow pool for an eel that big Sean:thumbsup:
Looks as real as this one [emoji13]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...a7504d57bf.jpg
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Some good reading here.
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/taniwh...mpaign=Taniwha
I challenge anyone to swim at night in certain places of Lake Mapourika[emoji6]
They come into any noise on mass and have no fear of people or their dangly bits.
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Most of them got caught and are now in a tank in town.
I love eating the buggers but don't like sharing the water with them[emoji4]
I crossed a chest deep South Westland river on dark after I shot a couple deer. Had a mate meet up with me as I was crossing with the first one.
He advised me not to turn around and I laughed it off.
I dumped the first carcass on the bank and went to go back for the other and 2 of the biggest eels I have ever seen were just waiting in the slack water. He said they followed me from about halfway.
Fair to say it took a few big rocks and a lot of puckering to go and get the other one especially as it was getting darker. Iirc I got around $500 bucks for the 2 animals but would have happily forfeited half of it that night.
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I find them fascinating creatures. Having harassed them as kids by overturning rocks in the creek and squealing like little girls while trying to flick them out on to the bank, then as we got older, assigned to sack duty while following the uncles up the creek with a gaff using a quartered tire wired to a fence batten and used as a torch which was lit by a small fire on the bank, graduating to operating the gaff with younger cousins, nieces and nephews on sack duty. All prepped and eaten with great delight.
Nowadays, I set the hinaki (using marmite and grated cheese as a lure), show the moko and tell them about their amazing life cycle, take a heap of digitals and release them quietly back into the water.
I love eating them, I just don't like killing them anymore...
Was bloody funny when I was working there late one night. One of the guys from the factory comes out with a bin of fish frames and heads to feed them. He leaned over the railing a little to far and his car keys slid out of his pocket, 'plop'. Wasn't at all keen to put his hand in to retrieve them. Finally managed to snag them on a long stick with a bent nail after about 20 minutes.
caught a few up to 12lb on handlines as a kid.... they very good smoked but I really cant get my head around eating them and would rather watch them go...the big eels should be looked after and photo taken then released...thats a bloody old fish who has a big swim ahead to trench over tonga way somewhere to breed and make more little eels....
one place I used to board at the eels would be waiting at bridge when Id gone out shooting rabbits as they knew I would feed them on way home..they got tame as and would poke heads out of water waiting for a feed...... duck guts is great bait for both eels and koura (not often found in same place)
my late father used to shoot a private lake at rotomanu(in fact he died duckshooting) and always remember him saying if you dropped a duck it was a race between you and the eels. years later cuzzie&iwere on this farm eeling in the outlet creek.bugger me framers wife lost a chookthat morning -stuck its beek in the water and wallop. well bugger me ginger chucks line in with as little bit of old possum on it and whammo it erupted death spins by the score before we managed to wrestle it up the bank and deliver the death knock
guilty ads fucking charged your honour -a complete chookleg in its guts!
the cockies son killed one with a shovel one day as it made a crack at him standing on the boat trailer in bare feet.it apparently was recognisable by a part missing fin and had adopted this tactic.noone knew why it had such shit on its liver but petes deft useof the shovel appeared to remedy the problem.
another good way to get em is ye old bob maori and pakeha used this .get a lump of liver heart or even a kidney or just a lump of beef.wrap it securely in fine cotton or nylon -ty her onto some hefty line and dangle it in the hole old slimy willcome up curious mouth it and his rear sloping teeth get entwined in the thread! my best -a 26lber out of the moonlight creek after grandad killed a sheep and dropped the guts in .we actually had a smaller eel on our line (made from grannies finest NZ post office string)until this hidous monstrosity slid from under the rock we stood on and proceeded to devour the poor bastard.we x3 hauled it in and killed it mreifully before dropping remains back in -yup gargantuan resumed what it thought was a free meal but we all3 hauling in tandem won the day.
after weighing it grandad said give it to old lucy the pig and her piglets.
whoa
what was left -a skin so clean you could have eaten off it and a fat old sow smacking her chops with a contented grin.
shed do the same to possums -clean skin with 4 sets of claws and if shed eaten earlier part of the skull.
yup was enough to heed grandads warning not to get close to her when her piglets were close!!
I used to sort their IT issues from about '91 till they closed. Managed to get stuck over there one anniversary weekend and they wouldn't let me work. I managed to put together a bit of kit and follow one of the directors (Harold) and their accountant (Andy) around the Victoria range for a couple of days.
Geeze R93 you'd be an old bugger now.I joined the green machine in 89:D
part time green machine 77-91 and enjoyed every bloody minute.pity thew rest of NZ didnt display as much discipline today!
Still in my 40's mate[emoji106]
Went to one of my best mates and his twin brothers 50th last weekend. (never drinking again)
The silly old fart a while ago suggested we combine all of ours.
I was horrified!! I am nowhere near 50. Its friggen months away[emoji16]
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Been bitten by an eel when I was a young fella and they put the shits right up me now. Was wading along under some willows in shoulder deep water with my arms outstretched and the bloody thing latched onto my armpit, screamed and yelled and managed to get out of the water with the horrid thing still hanging on, got it off me in the end and it left quite a mark. I'm very cautious about dark water now
mate got a sweet bite on his thigh at the local swimming hole. Left a good mark alright.
One of my duck ponds needs cleaning out.
Had a mate commercially do it around 10 yrs ago. He pulled out 300kgs in a couple nights.
It is only waste deep at its deepest and around 100m long.
My last dog had a tug of war with one trying to retrieve a duck a few years ago. He lost[emoji16]
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anybody ever see the Nz edition of the TV show featuring that bloke jeremy wade.he specialises in trying to catch maneating fish allover the world.he ended up here on the coast and in sth westalnd tangling with some of the big boys.shoulda seen his eyes when he saw hokitikas waterworld big boy?47lb mk- only to be told its big brother was also in residence but must be asleep.!!!!!
down to lake manapouri and tales of its monsters .
then a hind carcasse was put in a backwash with TV cameras set up round it whilst he was hootchied up with the TV monitor.man the behaviour of those eels hittin that carcasse would bring a tear of joy to any aussie crocs eye.scream in latch on spin like a supercharged bloody clothes dryer until pulling out with lumps of meat in jaws.
finally in an act of bravado bordering i think on psychotic -he dressed in a wetsuit with chainmail over suit covers himself in a mix of oil/fish guts and god knows what other delicacies and wades into a wais tdeep backwash
overhead view clear brown water suddenly blackened by a huge mob of hungry eels .
he yelled calf as a big brutes nose started to nudge around his crown jewels.however he did feel at least three bites even in chainmail.
IIRC hed heard of a young lass severely torn by eels which had developed a habit of killing stranded ewes in the farm creek somewhere in central NI and wanted to prove fact or fiction.
hmmmm-at end of programme he was certainly less cocky than when he started.
R93-am i correct instating the big buggers in waterworlds tank originated from stock Bert Vanderdrift rejected when he was eel processing on southshore- Ive also heard they were used for "green" offal disposal by the fish processors .bit like living on prime fillet steak 24 /7 /365 eh what.
eh while i remeber younger sister in her early TV production days did a "make a wish" type reality TV programme. anyhow she put the youngest sister inour family in with the diver to feed the buggers.Tessy B hated eels -was bloody hilarious to see one big fat one wrap himself round her head covering mask and all.
apparently she ex ed the tank like a submarine ballistic missile
we reminded her of it recently -shit if looks were a slaughtermans knife i wouldnt be typing this .even her hubby got told where to go in language most unbecoming of a good catholic girl!
My Grandad blew one up in the local creek with gelenight after he came home after the great War.Apparently it was over 100lbs and use to eat the ducks.There was an article about the Tiratu monster published in the Dannevirke gazzette. We have tried to search it up at the local library but I think dad is the only one left that vaguely remembers the story.
When I was a lad a mate and I would go down the local river with his dads single shot 22 and we would take turns as the rock turner over and the shooter turning over rocks and shooting bootlaces (small eels) Looking back it is a bit of a shame but we probably didnt shoot that many...turn over 10-15 rocks for one....We were obviously very carefull or bloody lucky(the later I think) not to get a injury from a ricochet.
We had a few ponds dad had dug on the small farm and I vividly remember one night the eels out in the paddocks in the rain heading for the road and ditch, no idea why they didnt just use the ditches connecting the ponds and heading to the road.
The biggest eel I ever saw was walking over a swing bridge over the 3mile or 5mile? south of Okorito around 30 years ago.. it looked for all the world like a log on the bottom but it slowly swam holding position....being barely a sprat myself I imagined it could swallow me whole like a python.
I am not 100% on this mate but I was told most of the eels were taken from the ponds outside the factory.
When I worked there they only took eels of a certain size depending on order.
So big ones generally got released into the ponds. We used to eat our lunch and feed the buggers tid bits of the jetty.
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My aunt's place up north has brown trout and eels in the creek that runs along it. We fed them heaps of dead possum over the weekend and some of them were pretty big.
We even used to have them at the local creek down the road my childhood home. We'd take the left over bones and stuff from the roast dinner and feed them. And then someone dumped some rubbish and all sorts of nasty stuff and they disappeared. Don't think ive seen one for 10 years.
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Bloody loopies think it’s good fun to feed them, makes swimming there bit scary, I’m scared of the bloody things