Eels!

[Hornblower]

Does anyone really believe that they all came from the Sargasso sea?

 

[edna krabappel]

No, but I do know that their blood is toxic to humans, and that toxicity is only removed by cooking them.

The idea of jellied eels, frankly, repulses me

 

[vegster]

I believe that the they do migrate there to spawn and then the young return to European rivers to live and grow until returning to the Sargasso to spawn and complete the cycle.

On a similar issue, i'm a sea angler and I have it on good authority that a sexually mature male or female Conger Eel has never been caught. The rod caught record goes to approx 120 lb and there have been reports of Congers up to 200lb occasionaly being caught in trawl nets. Even these have never been caught " with Roe" which begs the question, how big do they get when they are mature, and ,where are they ?

 

[Buzzer]

I do know that Mark Oliver Everett is a genius. (Was I the only one who opened this thread hoping for some music?

This is my favourite Eels song in the world

[yt]wREjT7DlI7M[/yt]

 

[edna krabappel]

I do know that Mark Oliver Everett is a genius. (Was I the only one who opened this thread hoping for some music?

This is my favourite Eels song in the world

[yt]wREjT7DlI7M[/yt]

I think if you look around the board you will find there is an Eels thread relating to their music, and that this one was probably posted in response.

Or it could be the other way around of course

 

[Buzzer]

fair dos

*crawls back into hole*

 

[middletoenail]

Funnily enough, I have just bought some tickets to their show at the Dome in July, happy days!

EDIT: didnt see the previous thread = Silly me

 

[vegster]

strangely, I have caught eels before, but not Eels. That will change

 

[Surrey Seagull]

Does anyone really believe that they all came from the Sargasso sea?

No but my hovercraft is full of them!

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[Seagull kimchi]

.....in your eyes in your ears in your anus.

 

[Ditchboy]

finding an entrance where they can.

 

[Taybha]

eels have been known to cross roads fields ect to get to their spawning areas, in my time working on trawlers we netted many congers up to the 100lb mark, divers ive spoken to reckon they have seen eels they estimate to be over 200lb on deep sea wrecks and a eel of 194lb was found washed up on a beach on the dingle penninsula a few years ago,they have the capacity to grow much bigger but to date this is the largest ever recorded at 210lb

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Elvers have left the building.

I thank you.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Horrible creatures. Taste just as bad.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

I'm going to see them in July at the Dome.

 

[Hornblower]

OK, I like The Eels too, shame it took a sync in Shrek for most people to discover them. I also love to fish, and I'm not too keen on unhooking eels. But I still go back to the original point of this thread; we are told that every eel that exists was born in the Sargasso sea and has travelled from there to its current destination, am I alone in finding that very hard to believe?

Marcos Painter - totally ace, nice to see him get some well earned recognition on here.

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