The Biggest freshwater eel I've seen

[wayne the pain]

Used to have a fishing video filmed in NZ, catching long finned eels ( i think) it was next to a abattior all the blood ran into the river, it was full of them and they were massive.

 

[Ianab]

Yup, that would have been years ago when the normal method of waste disposal was to dump it in the river

Didn't do much for the water quality in the river... but the Eels LOVED it

Cheers

Ian

 

[mercury904]

cool photos ianab!@

 

[sandtiger]

None of these are mine. They all came from http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/

Electric Eel

New Zealand Longfin Eel

Speckled Longfin Eel

This is the NJ state record American eel from http://www.state.nj.us

 

[santoury]

That NJ American Eel??? That is the USUAL size in Massachusetts (Cape Cod)

 

[1commander]

Are any of the opening posts pics american eels? I couldn't tell, except that the last pic in black and white is not one (visible scales).

 

[jakethesnake]

My 30"+

 

[Onion01]

wow, nice. How big is the tank?

 

[Shaihulud]

True eel spawns once in a lifetime, so really old eels would have to be landlocked eels. I have seen one of those NZ eels when i was on a visit over there, huge and massize things it was.

 

[pirarucu319]

they say eels are very tasty

wow, those are really giant..yup, eel are tasty..