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braved the storms yesterday to bring a coworker out fishin on the free weekend.managed a couple hours before the rain really started.old moe scared up a bass,never caught one before.guess theres no bass in lebanon .my jig gets slammed and after 5 mins of peelin drag up floats 30 inch? eel,slide him up beside the canoe and he grabs the trolling motor shaft with two turns of his tail. man i dont want to touch this thing so i grag the jig and steady pulls he lets go.good thing moe was quick with the camera as the jig went straight and he slides off the hook,thank u lord!

Cool!

very interesting . . .

sweet. never cought anything like that. not sure what they would be like but id love to try it.

Hard to believe how strong they are as well. Nice sized one though. I wonder how many people know that they are a protected species in Ontario now?

Around the trolling motor shaft is a good thing. they get pretty slimy when they wrap themselves around your arm.

ugly fish bet is was cool on the line though

I have caught many eels and they are always a tough fight. You can usually tell its an eel with the zig zagging they do and yeah its always an adventure trying get them of the hook.

cool catch! seeing them less and less each year

a few nights back me and kingfisher caught 2 or them jigging for walleye
they were both around that size and do they ever give up a great fight
oh and dont try to net them

walleye man wrote: oh and dont try to net them

i think we learned that lesson the hard way

What happens when you do?

Interesting catch, I remember seeing an eel caught in Lake Ontario on a salmon charter.
That eel has quite a trip ahead to get to where it will spawn.

DropShot'r

They send a shiver up your back when you hook into one. The American Eel is supposedly endangered and thus protected But we hooked into 3 of those slimy things last year on the Ottawa River.

TMH wrote:What happens when you do?

they get stuck and you have to cut the net