BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?

Subject: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: wdyat12
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:18 PM

As most of you know I am getting married late this summer right in the heat of Striped Bass season here in Maine. I fish with live eels at night from the surf. When I was single I used to keep live eels fresh for days in the refridgerator. Is it too much to ask of my new bride to continue this practice or should I take up a new hobby? She claims she likes to fish, but we haven't done that yet.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:20 PM

Eeeeewwwww, not in my fridge ya wouldn't!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: hesperis
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:21 PM

Um, have you asked HER?

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: GUEST,john in hull
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:27 PM

watch they dont break the eggs!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: MMario
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:33 PM

you might want to get a second fridge -

but we always just kept the live eels in a damp burlap sack on the porch.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: campfire
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:34 PM

Be careful, or Spaw will find several reasons for (and methods of) inserting them in various bodily orifices...

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:35 PM

Well, as I answered in the "Eggs" thread...........

You can, of cours, shove them up a friend's ass, but it would probably end the friendship.

I suppose though that in the case of eels, an awful lt would depend on the friend! Hell, they may even like it!!!

If so, good luck baiting your hook...........

Spaw---and wouldn't it be a lot more fun for you and your wife to play with your eel? A good woman beats the hell out of a Striped Bass.......but then again, maybe things are different in Maine...........................

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: mousethief
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:37 PM

I've got a good woman and I've never seen her assault a Striped Bass. Then again, I've never asked her to, either.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: DougR
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:41 PM

Hmmm, Mousethief, you sound a bit disappointed. Are you a repressed eel voyeur by chance? :>)

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:49 PM

Hey spaw you never answered my question from the egg thread: Do you have any pictures of your egg/eel fetishes?

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 May 01 - 01:56 PM

Yeah Chance, they're on my website at:

www.olspawsasickfuck.com/whooppee/eggsass.html
AND
www.olspawsasickfuck.com/whooppee/eelsinass.html

Enjoy!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:02 PM

You're toying with me, you sly devil, 'spaw.

Where's the blue clicky, eh?

And for the sushi fancier we have unagius rectalus

Or have I gone too far?

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: MMario
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:02 PM

ohhhhhhnnnnnnnoooooooo! Fortunato - please don't tempt him....you don't know what you're asking for...

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Allan C.
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:16 PM

My god, man! What in the world has got ahold of your mind? I cannot believe that you are considering marriage to some woman with whom you have not even gone fishing!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:21 PM

Well, I hate to post that stuff too easily as it may be seen by some as in bad taste, something I worry about a lot!

However, I have these Art Frahm drawings and though the guy who wrote the commentary feels the problem is the effects of CELERY on ELASTIC, the real problem is that the eels or eggs have popped out and created the situations. Click Here

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:24 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:33 PM

Getting back to the original question, a lot depends on how many people are sharing the refrigerator and how attentive they are when they're looking for tasty snacks.

The Barrymans had their lovely song about cleaning the refrigerator and discovering "treasures" that had been stored there.

Then, there was my old co-operative house in Michigan where one couple stored their placenta (tastefully wrapped in waxed white paper) in the freezer downstairs; Karrie and I being the last of the original members, and about to leave the nest, thoughtfully decided to bury "it" in the backyard before the collective consciousness had deteriorated further and "placenta" became the entre of one future brighter day...

Wydat – fish or cut bait!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 May 01 - 02:56 PM

Click here for "When Did We Have Sauerkraut?" by the Berrymans. Don't you think you should eat the eels as soon as you get them home? Keeping them in the refrigerator would probably spoil the flavor, dontchathink?
When I lived in Berlin in the early 1970's, you could buy live eels at the open-air markets that seemed to be in every neighborhood. The merchant would fish one out for you and rap its head on the counter to stun it. Then he'd wrap it in brown paper so you could tuck the eel under your arm and take it home. Can't say I know what people did with them once they got the eels home, but the process of purchasing was sure interesting to watch.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: DougR
Date: 17 May 01 - 03:03 PM

Joe: Yuck! And it's lunch time in Arizona.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 May 01 - 03:18 PM

I'm with Allan on this one. You're marrying a woman you haven't taken fishing and it's a major passion of yours? You don't really know if she will object to your hobby or keeping live bait in your refrigerator? I wonder what she is hiding from you?

I once knew someone who married someone she'd known thirty years and she found out shortly that he had been a nudist and had been hiding it from her and almost everyone else in his family. That marriage lasted four months.

You've got some communicating to do ,pal!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Jenny the T
Date: 17 May 01 - 03:18 PM

There's an Irish tune, "The Eel in the Sink." Based solely on that reference, my vote is to keep your eels in the sink.

If you put 'em there just before, say, the missus goes in to wash her hands, it will enliven your marriage.

JtT

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Kim C
Date: 17 May 01 - 03:20 PM

Eels is good eatin. Don't let nobody tell you otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 17 May 01 - 03:27 PM

I keep my maggots in the fridge, my wife don't object too much, she got used to it early on in our relationship. Mind you haven't fished for a while. Used to keep my groundbait in the house too.

I don't eat eel, smoked or otherwise, caught quite a few though-slimey things!!!

Tell her if you can keep your eels in the firdge, you'll keep her tampax in your pocket when you both go out and she hasn't got her handbag-pretty good bargain I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 17 May 01 - 03:50 PM

No, stupid, they'll eat the eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 May 01 - 04:36 PM

Not at my house, you wouldn't!! I draw the line at nightcrawlers.......and they won't eat the eggs! Eels, yuck. Nasty things.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Bert
Date: 17 May 01 - 04:37 PM

EAT THE EELS

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: DougR
Date: 17 May 01 - 05:17 PM

Thanks Bert, for that article, and particularly the recipe. The next time Mudcatters come to Phoenix for a performance, I'll serve them jellied eels. I do have one problem, however. Water we got, salt we got, cracked pepper we got. Eels we don't got.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 May 01 - 05:18 PM

Thanks, Burp!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: DougR
Date: 17 May 01 - 05:18 PM

Maybe I could substitute rattle snake! We got lots of those!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 01 - 09:07 PM

Those who keep live eels in the fridge will die as live eels in the fridge. What a barbaric practice. I hope there are no children reading this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Bert
Date: 18 May 01 - 12:38 AM

Doug, Do you have any Oriental Grocers in your area. Many of them stock eels.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 May 01 - 12:50 AM

Hey Bert........here's a song for you to work on and you can base it on the other one already written (first part of the title) called "There's a Tear in My Beer Cause I Got Eels Up My Rear."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Bert
Date: 18 May 01 - 12:57 AM

You can have the eels Spaw ol buddy. I'll stick to my trusty 'copter.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 May 01 - 01:06 AM

.....uh..yeah............like....uh...............thanks Bert...............much obliged...................................I guess.......................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Gervase
Date: 18 May 01 - 05:10 AM

Jellied eels? Yuk! Like a bowl of fishy snot.
My grandfather used to love jellied eels though, and used to keep the live ones in an old sink in the scullery. Buggers to kill and skin, they were - he taught me the trick(apologies to the squeamish here) of nailing thing heads to a board and then skinning 'em with hands covered in rock salt to get a good grip.
But smoked eel - that's a dish fit for the gods. The Dutch use little bootlace eels, not much bigger than elvers, and smoke them in hot smoke which gives a fabulous taste. Yummy!
Catching eels can be fun. In Suffolk we used to bab for them - using a bunch of worms knotted up with three-ply hairy wool with a weight attached. You just dangle the ball in a dyke and the eels' teeth snag on the wool as they go for the worms, letting you pull 'em out without hooks or spears. A damp hessian sack with a good drawstring is the best thing for carrying them home in. Ah, happy memories!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 May 01 - 08:39 AM

According to such old ballads such as "Randall, My Son" some eels is deadly poisonous, especially if they is "green and yellar." So, Wydat, you should at least put some sort of warning sticky on the fridge door, or one of them magnetic ones from work at BIW, or maybe one of them glowing ones from that retired nuke down the road in Wiscasset.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 18 May 01 - 08:52 AM

When Dad and I used to go fishing we always kept the maggots in the fridge (albeit in a tin). Before we had a fridge we kept them in the outdoor khazi as the coldest place. Then of course, forgot some when we went on holiday. On return, bursting for a pee, Mom went in, could hear strange buzzing from the mysteriuous tin, opened the lid.........
RtS (ten thousand blowflies can't be wrong)

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 May 01 - 08:54 AM

Gervase, how the !@#$ are you? I nearly wet myself imagining someone eating a "bowl of fishy snot".

I have a few questions about your post, however, to whit: What is it "to bab"?
What is a "three-ply hairy wool"?
What is a hessian sack?

And, last but not least, how does the dyke feel about having a ball dangled in her?

curious in DC Chance

ps drunk any olive oil lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: LR Mole
Date: 18 May 01 - 10:04 AM

Eel be art in a minute.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: wdyat12
Date: 18 May 01 - 10:32 AM

Thanks Folks for all your good advice. I told Maggie last night about keeping live eels in the fridge. She wasn't thrilled, but she still wants to go fishing. She asked me what else I keep in there. Ah, the adjustment period.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 May 01 - 10:52 AM

eel, ugh. snakes, ugh. Doug, I would think it would work, same principle. Snakes don't have much natural gelatn, tho, like eels do. Gives me the shivers, eels do. I have eaten rattlesnake, tho. Not much point in it if you ask me....mostly bones with no flavor. Sort of like trying to eat a bony chicken neck.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Gervase
Date: 18 May 01 - 10:55 AM

Aargh, Chance, don't remind me (or my nether parts) of drinking that chilli oil!
Hessian, I suppose, would be burlap on your side of the pond, or a gunny (sp?) sack. And three-ply wool is what you granny used to knit those scratchy and shapeless sweaters from (at least she did if she was anything like my granny. I swear her knitting patterns were designed for orang-utangs, the sleeves were so long. I'd have to roll them up four times, so the cuffs looked liked those trainer-bands for swimming toddlers).
And babbing is what you do with the hairy wool and the worms in the dyke (I think it's a Suffolk word - leastaways I don't hear it used much in the middle of London!).

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 May 01 - 11:09 AM

Sounds like what I do with the jumper cables, 30 weight motor oil and a bucket of wet oatmeal. Excepting the dyke, of course. I don't usually catch anything though.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Gervase
Date: 18 May 01 - 11:20 AM

Jumper cables, oil and a bucket of wet oatmeal?
That's one helluva fetish you've got there!

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 May 01 - 12:24 PM

I've had MG tyres in the sink and snapping turtles in the freezer. Sounds too much like our house. I tend to marry men who are pretty relaxed about that sort of thing. I've got rubber snakes decorating the beams, too, and the largest collection of rubber squid in the state of New Hampshire.

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: harpgirl
Date: 18 May 01 - 12:33 PM

....way to go wydat12...but maybe you should marry Kim C instead...evidently, she'll eat almost anything and she doesn't mind having it next to the milk in her fridge*wink*
personally, I'm with kat and Schorcha on the issue of eels in the fridge.....hehe

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 May 01 - 01:13 PM

BG, I bet you don't have the awesome Nove Scotia "squigglies" we picked up for Roll & Go; some day we're going to do a chorus line with them.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Mike Byers
Date: 18 May 01 - 01:25 PM

No, no! A fridge is way too cold for eels. I keep 'em in my pocket; the eels like it better this way and so do I. And where can I get a rubber squid? Actually, I need several rubber squids...

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: lady penelope
Date: 18 May 01 - 01:32 PM

Gawd the "ick" factor round here has rocketed due to this thread.

Can't you just lounge around lakes and pretend you're fishing? Or are you one of those rare anglers ( especially this side of the "pond" ) who actually eat what you catch?

If you come to the east end of London you can enjoy eel pie and mash with liquer. No fridges required!

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 May 01 - 01:40 PM

Mike, the only place I've found the foot-long squigglies, in several vivid colors, is a deep seas tackle shop in Shelborn, Nova Scotia. They're used in trolling. I'll bring one for show and tell to the Portland, ME, Shanty Sing next week-end.