Intersting. If they were smart, they'd hire a good eel fisherman to advise them.
Yep, I'm most hopeful there is such.
Yonder is the castle of my Faddah.
I think outsized eels are behind most freshwater lake monsters, along with swimming moose / deer, boat wakes and seals straying into fresh water. That said, a common eels can bite like hell so a scaled up one would be formidable.
They reputedly can sever wire traces, although I suspect it's more of a fraying, than a bite. Even a 4lb eel is a handful and I was attached to one in the 10lb range for 15 minutes and the trace broke at the net. I was absolutely gutted.
Yes, a wire breaking at high tension can do that. Nasty. Glad you're OK.
Eels will take worms, maggots, cockles, mussels, but if you want to avoid catching other stuff either a small dead fish (rudd, roach and even sprats can work) or a small live fish fished near the surface.
I've ate a couple, a year or too back that lived in spring fed old cress beds. We baked one in the fire when we were clearing the scrub up one spring and it was really very good.
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Pike: very good eating if you eat the bigger ones. Bit bony with the little ones.
We get lots of other type of fish with worms or crabs but the pike seem to desire the taste of fish.
It's quite mild and on the sweet side, with nice firm meat. Good for Baking, grilling or pan frying if the fillets are cut down in size.
Perhaps we should start a pike eating and catching tread? Lov the critters but up a strong fight and can get to a large size if lucky. Given the choice I'd eat pike over most trout or salmon. A simple article on pike.
