Understanding the Laws of Physics

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Don't dwell on it too much, you might hurt yarself

[AllanB]

We have eels in our stream. Some big bugger too - most likely the meat scraps we feel them.

[Road kill]

...at the seaward end of Lake Wairewa, (Forsyth) which is a few hundred meters from where I sit now, a few hundred trillion stones are all that keep the lake from the sea...at the prescribed time of year a lot of activity with shovels and rakes takes place down there...George an older maori friend and his whanau and hangers on dig channels towards the sea, these can be thirty feet long and a couple of feet deep with a deeper bowl at the seaward end...when the eel decide it's time for the off into the deep blue Pacific and they bugger off from the rivers and lake towards the sea, they end up in them drains...I used to help George often when they were running to sea...some nights we could hook 400 to 600 eel...that was hard work in itself, but the next day or two was full on...drying them on the fencelines and other contraptions and then splitting them...lots of fun, lots of beers and lots of smoked eel...this is a pretty unique way of trapping the tuna I believe and George has a bit of a cult status all over the country...the eels are all pretty much a standard size...the big buggers that you see in rivers and ponds etc are barren old girls who dont go back to sea to breed, they just fuck around getting bigger in their chosen system...if I told you of the size of a couple of eels I have seen in our river systems round here you would not believe me...so I wont...

I'd believe you.
I know of an old girl within an hour of Auckland that would be around the 8 foot mark.
First saw her when I was a kid an as of this time last year she was still alive an kicking.
Last time I was up there I paddled over the pool where she lives in my Kayak an gave her a bit of a scare.

She came out of the old hollow Totara log she seems to live in and swum under me as I turned for a better look.

Head around 12 inches across,mid section the size of a 20 liter drum and tail around 12 inches deep.

I've known about her for 33 years and in that time she doesn't seem to of changed size much.

I'd love to show somebody where she lives one day but people can't be trusted with things like that and I want her to die from old age,,,,,not some other way.

But anyway,I'd have no problem believing you.

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...hard to believe if you have never seen something like it...i shit one night when i stood on what i thought was a great place for a tree trunk to be, just right for not getting my boots full of water when i crossed a stream...she shit too...i ended up on my arse half in the creek and it galloped off upstream like a horse, displacing ALL the water from a biggish creek, as it went...i reckon 7 or 8 feet and a body that looked a couple of foot round...it would be a terrible thing to even contemplate killing something that could be 80 or a 100 years old even...anything over a meter and getting thick are well past their eating prime anyway...