Fess up you Aucklanders

[caseye]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but could you get it up your arse?

Are you kidding me Mr??? 2 meter long eel, you got any idea the diameter required to assuage that sort of girth???? WELL!
LOL Na i like being da eel with a girly. sorry.

[EJK]

Definitely not the first.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/875317-...ing-beauty-spa


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/793...wims-in-bottom

[caseye]

At 2 meters long that fish was probably close to 100 years old.

People like you need shooting with a ball of your own shit

You of course have never caught anything as big as this and had an inordinate amount of respect for it's size and power that you didn't , even though you knew how, kill it outright?
Be careful what you say when commenting on short stories that by necessity don't have all of the facts contained within.
I've replied to another here tonight perhaps after reading that you may wish to comment further.

[Bikemad]

Oh, and at least the eel is self lubricating. Better than a vegemite jar anyway.

oh for Petes sake!

[mashman]

Are you kidding me Mr??? 2 meter long eel, you got any idea the diameter required to assuage that sort of girth???? WELL!
LOL Na i like being da eel with a girly. sorry.

heh... we used to pull feckers up about that size in the lobby pots. The fishermans jig, a 2m conga with big pointy teeth gnashing at anything it came near (seen the toe of a welly disappear before). T'was a knife through a triangle on its head that killed it (no way to just grab it and throw it over, as ya say, they're huuuuuge). Of course you had to have balls of steel to go anywhere near its head.

[jasonu]

I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who know an ER nurse who knew another ER nurse who said Peter Sinclair came in late one night with a marmite jar stuck up his hind end. He claimed he slipped in the shower and fell on it...

[Woodman]

I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who know an ER nurse who knew another ER nurse who said Peter Sinclair came in late one night with a marmite jar stuck up his hind end. He claimed he slipped in the shower and fell on it...

Ithought it was a light bulb.

[jasonu]

Ithought it was a light bulb.

Na don't be ridiculous, what would a lightbulb be doing in the shower...

[Maha]

Tail smacked real hard, gutted and hung on the barbed wire fence till morning, when the embers are nice and hot, yummmmm.

1960's...lived next door to a Maori family (big on fishing)...they used have eels hanging on the clothes line (one of those long bits or wire from fence to shed held up by a pole things)..and eels in the bath!
They used to scrape the fly blow off the hanging ones before eating, I would assume?
The mother would like to suck on a fish eye (snapper) until it was clear....

The irony was...the mothers name was Roe.
I heard my first Jimmy Hendrix song come from that house...Purple Haze.

[BoristheBiter]

Your lecture is not appreciated. I fish and I always put back the first one I catch no matter it's size or whether it's a trout or a schnapper.

was the snapper caught in Germany or imported.

[skippa1]

First red in a coons age, cheers for that. By the way are you God? or his son?
Just wondering.

Have fished for and caught many eels as a young fella, not many since, this one didn't want to die,I guess we didn't really want to kill it,yes we knew how, even at 14 yrs old.
Your lecture is not appreciated. I fish and I always put back the first one I catch no matter it's size or whether it's a trout or a schnapper.
I hunt and I often don't shoot the first animal I see, I've grown older with my country and I think I've learned alot over the intervening 35 plus years.
You are right, numbers of good edible eels are dwindling fast, at 2 meters ( no shit Sherlock) it was an old eel, most likely that's why even then, at just 14 we made no serious attempt to kill it and were all actually quite glad to see it stir and swim away.
Now I've retold the story I am pleasantly surprised to feel your anger at the "almost" waste but even better, I am able to say without a doubt I'd simply let a grandaddy like him go straight away if it ever happened again.
PS: love smoked eel, or better still, breakfast eel, caught by hand in a small fast flowing stream, two guys, a big rock, both find a hole and put their hand in it, the lucky one pulls the biting ( at normal size, about .09 to a meter, they have teeth like sand paper and don't really hurt too much) eel out of his hole and throws him on the bank.
Tail smacked real hard, gutted and hung on the barbed wire fence till morning, when the embers are nice and hot, yummmmm.

Firstly.....what the fuck is a schnapper????

The common name 'snapper' was given to this fish by Captain James Cook in 1770. He mistook it for a member of the true snapper family Lutjanidae, a group of fish with which he had become familiar in American waters. Although he mistook the fish, he spelt the name correctly, whereas many subsequent writers have used 'schnapper' - an erroneous spelling of unknown origin.

Second....after we

dropped concrete blocks on its head, stabbed it through the neck, wound it into a very big plastic pail and kept it out of water for over 24 hours.

you say

we made no serious attempt to kill it and were all actually quite glad to see it stir and swim away

Really....no attempt ha?

[Swoop]

Threw it off the bridge back into the river the next day.

Reckon that eel is still there in the River

Sure it wasn't the taniwha down Mercer-way, that the taxpayer had to "give" a lot of money to get rid of?

[caseye]

Sure it wasn't the taniwha down Mercer-way, that the taxpayer had to "give" a lot of money to get rid of?

Skippa, a schnapper is a Germanic snapper sometimes found on your plate in some very posh restaurants didn'tcha know?

Love those double barrels there Swoop.
Hell no this ol Eel was much bigger than the Mercer, Taniwha.
It's probably still alive and kicking now I reckon,it definitely shook it's self and swam off, didn't just float away or worse sink.
An ordinary working foreman dispatched that ol Mercer Taniwha imposter with a double barreled shotgun I believe.
Lucky he did aye, esle we'd all still be navigating that stretch of highway in waka.

[Big Dave]

I used to work in a horsepiddle. ED nurses had the best stories. Most of them went "I was cleaning the window's naked and I fell off and landed on a .....".

Yea. My girl was an OR Sister in Paddington, Sydney when we met. It was a risky job removing the new shape Rexona cans that had gone 'all the way' - before body heat caused them to rupture.

Reminds me of that old gag:

Customer: I'd like some deodorant please.
Shop Assistant: Certainly sir, Ball or Aerosol?
Customer: No, underarm.

[Big Dave]

Schnapper is sometimes used on restaurant menus on this side of t' dutch. Same thing.

There was a Soft Core porn flick - Cinderella 1977 - that had a song in it entitled 'The Kingdom has a snapper', and it wasn't taking about fish.