The shrinking anus.

[John Gryphon]

I bet this gets some clicks ha ha....read the story.

Is this Australia's most hardcore animal?

They may be no match for saltwater crocs or great white sharks, but for their size, our freshwater eels are surprisingly hardcore.

www.abc.net.au

 

[starr shot]

Read the story just glad I’m not an eel

 

[John Gryphon]

it

Read the story just glad I’m not an eel

its a good read too but for all those that clicked on it unfortunately not enough written about the common anus to reply lol.

 

[User00053]

Wet night moons ago encountered shed loads on the move in a small beck and along the banks of a beck, half mile from main river hundreds, all around same size. Sea around fifty plus miles as fish would swim, weird to see, all moving upstream away from main river upstream. Also once at fox den with cubs in a old quarry near cliffs not far from sea with
Eels been eaten in good amounts. Good eating fish if cooked right.

 

[dartmoordog]

Lightweights compared to our Eel! The most amazing migratory fish of them all, all the way from the Sargasso Sea to our rivers, over weirs land to feed, until they migrate back to spawn. Many here think our Atlantic Salmon are king, but look again at the Eel, an amazing creature.

I spent my working life looking after these fellas, such a shame they are on a massive decline.

 

[User00053]

Lightweights compared to our Eel! The most amazing migratory fish of them all, all the way from the Sargasso Sea to our rivers, over weirs land to feed, until they migrate back to spawn. Many here think our Atlantic Salmon are king, but look again at the Eel, an amazing creature.

I spent my working life looking after these fellas, such a shame they are on a massive decline.

Any known reasons for decline or just the modern world in general, the river system that eels were seen (now 35 years ago) at that time had salmon just starting to return to spawn in same area, might count dozen or so. Now same main water salmon and sea trout fished for not far down stream which them was not possible.

 

[User00053]

Wet night moons ago encountered shed loads on the move in a small beck and along the banks of a beck, half mile from main river hundreds, all around same size. Sea around fifty plus miles as fish would swim, weird to see, all moving upstream away from main river upstream. Also once at fox den with cubs in a old quarry near cliffs not far from sea with
Eels been eaten in good amounts. Good eating fish if cooked right.

Correction, eels were ninety plus miles from salt water.

 

[starr shot]

Used to find huge ones on the Somerset level’s.Havnt been there for years now so can’t say if they are in decline

 

[User00053]

Moons ago elvers where commercially netted by hand when running, same era as netting plovers and the likes, was reading one famous eel hand netter was called spanker Davies, a fenman I think?

 

[User00053]

Mmm, did not know elver netting still in vogue in some places, but plenty info and picks out there. Seems Covid suspended the job for a while, interesting to read on the conservation work done on the river parret, to help elvers.

 

[John Gryphon]

Spanker Davies

Didnt she work in The Silver Cross Tavern in Whitehall