01-05-2015, 03:36 AM
Yesterday I took a couple of my older boys fishing. We were blessed with a gorgeous day and what looked like ideal surfing conditions. The winds were off shore and the waves had a storm type size to them. We walked down the coast to our favorite fishing area, along the way we noticed a few eels within the tide pools.
Once we reached our destination we knew the fishing was going to be a challenge as the ocean was unpredictable with some very large sets. We did manage to catch about a dozen reef fish before we starting catching eels. We caught 8 very large eels and a few smaller ones, they were everywhere. They are very difficult to take out of the water and even more difficult to unhook them. We did catch and release most of them, a few died which we would then throw them back in for chum. That's when we saw even larger eels swim in and grab these 3-4 foot little eels. The feeding of these eels with other eels was indeed incredible to watch.
My boys and I had a lot of fun all afternoon catching these aggressive eels. This made us think how important the eel really is around our coast as they ate everything we through in. The eel is constantly cleaning our tide pools around our coastline, I don't know of anything else that cleans our waters any better than these eels.
Anyone have any good pictures or stories of these beautiful eels we have along the coast? The skin from eel I heard has been used for different things, can these eels be eaten and if so how would you prepare a 6 foot brown, grey, or green eel?. Anyway we felt bad about the few eels that we had killed until we saw them get eaten by the even larger eels, hope it's not bad luck to catch or kill the eel.
Once we reached our destination we knew the fishing was going to be a challenge as the ocean was unpredictable with some very large sets. We did manage to catch about a dozen reef fish before we starting catching eels. We caught 8 very large eels and a few smaller ones, they were everywhere. They are very difficult to take out of the water and even more difficult to unhook them. We did catch and release most of them, a few died which we would then throw them back in for chum. That's when we saw even larger eels swim in and grab these 3-4 foot little eels. The feeding of these eels with other eels was indeed incredible to watch.
My boys and I had a lot of fun all afternoon catching these aggressive eels. This made us think how important the eel really is around our coast as they ate everything we through in. The eel is constantly cleaning our tide pools around our coastline, I don't know of anything else that cleans our waters any better than these eels.
Anyone have any good pictures or stories of these beautiful eels we have along the coast? The skin from eel I heard has been used for different things, can these eels be eaten and if so how would you prepare a 6 foot brown, grey, or green eel?. Anyway we felt bad about the few eels that we had killed until we saw them get eaten by the even larger eels, hope it's not bad luck to catch or kill the eel.