Horrible

[Oblickta]

..........Truth. Whats the most horrible thing u did to an eel after it wrecked your rig and covered you in slime?

I have seen Cockneys make friends with and agree to eat these a creatures but think that we dont share theior passion

[Lowrider]

Never caught one,thank god.

[Red5]

Truth Oblickta....Gently unhooked it and returned it to the water!

[TC]

Much as I dislike them (on a par with hagfish to my mind), the only thing I\'ve done with the eels I\'ve had the misfortune to hook, is the same as Rory.........unhook them and return them back to the water.

[tony.codling]

ive worked in holland a lot and the dutch go mad for them
they smoke them and call them parling

[KeithB]

After the stuff I smoked in holland, I was even calling our lass darling

[marksworld]

cant stand the orrible things , but have been told by more than one angler that a good eel cut into chunks and fried with skin on is nice as pie, well not as nice as a hot stokers steak and kidney pie but nice all the same so iv\'e been told


cheers
mark

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[Mike.Haley]

Friends of mine in london have them every week, jellied. Just the look of them makes me feel sick.

[micky-quayle]

does anyone know how to quickly dispatch an eel. i ask because i often keep them for pike baits and have trouble killing them humanely. it seems it doesn\'t matter how hard you hit them with a priest they\'re still alive. i do my best then chop them into 5\" sections, wrap in cling film and pop in the freezer but you can bet when you go in the freezer next day at least half the sections have squirmed out of the cling film even the sections without the head.

[MikeR]

I\'ve seen tools which hold the eel down and humanely put a blade through its head with no risk of cutting yourself. A piccy below:



[Edited on 16/11/2005 by MikeR]

[BriH]

does anyone know how to quickly dispatch an eel. i ask because i often keep them for pike baits and have trouble killing them humanely. it seems it doesn\'t matter how hard you hit them with a priest they\'re still alive. i do my best then chop them into 5\" sections, wrap in cling film and pop in the freezer but you can bet when you go in the freezer next day at least half the sections have squirmed out of the cling film even the sections without the head.

Micky you been reading the Grand kids the Lamton Worm Story - sounds familiar LOL

[ollie]

best way of despatching an eel is to cut itbehind the head and through the cartiledge , or buy frozen pike baits............lol

[colossus]

Eel is delicious. Skinning it is the worrying bit. I used to live in Amsterdam and got very attached to Paling. Chinese do brilliant things with them.

[micky-quayle]

best way of despatching an eel is to cut itbehind the head and through the cartiledge , or buy frozen pike baits............lol

tried it and believe me the head seems to live on for a very long time afterwards, it doesn\'t appear to be just nerves either !

[Chippy]

Like a number of people here, I too lived in Holland, in Almere for a few years although IMHO, smoked eel, gerookte paling, is awful, almost as bad as those salted herrings they swallow whole in Amsterdam. However I did catch some good \'uns and the way i was told to skin them was to hold them by the head, cut the skin behind head and use a pair of pliers to pull the skin off down to the tail.