Eel fishing

[trapper2000]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reviewed the status of the American eel in 2007 and in 2015, finding both times that Endangered Species Act protection for the American eel is not warranted.Dec 18, 2018

https://www.fws.gov/northeast/americaneel/

[icejohn]

That's interesting tax...on the discovery channels I've seen them net the glass eels but also saw that somewhere off the Hudson I believe....a fella traps adult eels...smokes them and sells them

[filetandrelease]

 As a young man I can remember the eel boats on lake Ontario
 The man that comes to mind was old man blood

[touge30]

ray turner hancock new york .Iknew his old man

[joefish1]

ray turner hancock new york .Iknew his old man

  Been there many times being it was only 26 miles from where I used to live.

[jperch]

How did they commercially fish for the eels back then?  Netting somehow?

[Raquettedacker]

Use to love catching them when my dad kept his boat docked at White's Marina on the Hudson in New Hamburg.  The old guy in the boat next to us use to chum the water behind our boats.  His brother owned a restaurant that cooked them...

[WalleyeWonder]

Saw a jumbo floater in I-bay last week.... First one ive seen

[old man river]

I can remember going smelt dipping at port bay Wolcott many a moons ago
some nights the water was loaded with eels
the inlet was loaded with them ,swirling around .
ralph

[Swampking89]

Believe it or not,the biggest eel I've seen caught was at the pond in Williamstown at the bridge at rt.13.we went there on opening day of trout season many times we would get theret, at midnight and caught some nice browns( up to23inches)then my bubbly says I got a biggen!!After a ten minute fight,we got our flashlight out and saw it was a giant eel!!this thing was pushing 3 feet!!my buddy was so upset he threw it up on 13 and then someone picked it up and took it home!!

[greensider]

Where i was Saturday night I have caught them as big as a mans wrist but my biggest was really bog from the Hudson River at least 3 feet a guy I know said he got a 6 pound eel in rondout creek part of Hudson River

[jperch]

Bobber, I accidentally caught an eel once while smelting.  I have also caught carp, bullheads, silverbass and lots of rocks.  Swampking I think most people would be surprised how big eels can get, I have seen some absolutely HUGE ones while scuba diving.  For some reason I never caught a big one while fishing.  When we were kids and accidentally caught one we would break the sinker off to save it and just cut the hook off near their mouth to release it.  Otherwise your rig would end up slimed.  They would put up quite a good fight though.

[trapper2000]

isn't it said all we got to talk about are eels and carp 

[taxid]

isn't it said all we got to talk about are eels and carp 

 

[greensider]

I am actually enjoying these threads not because I started them but because I enjoy catching the less commonly fished for such as gar and bowfin