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Any of you baws eat river eel?
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:21 am
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:21 am
I saw some dick weed catch one and he thumped it on the head instead of releasing it. I picked it up to use for cut bait. The meat looks delicious. Thinking of trying one next time I get ahold of it. Saw 3 or 4 people catch them this weekend.
This post was edited on 5/31/21 at 5:53 pm
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Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:26 am to Loup
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The meat looks delicious. Thinking of trying one next time I get ahold of it. Saw 3 or 4 people catch them this weekend.
I have and liken it to eating snake meat. I've eaten fried rattlesnake several times and it can be a bit on the chewy side, same with the eel.
The thing with the average river eel is they don't get near as big as a snake, so there's less meat and as many bones to deal with. Also, cleaning them is a bit harder than cleaning a land bound snake since they are some slimy SOB's, whereas snakes are easy to grip and remove the skins.
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:30 am to Loup
Unagi - Very common in Japan. On every sushi menu you will see a "bbq'd eel" roll.
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:32 am to Loup
I've eaten them and it's ok. Much better use as bait.
Also, if you ever check out the life cycle of an American eel it's one of the more fascinating things in the animal kingdom in my opinion. It will make you not want to kill one.
Also, if you ever check out the life cycle of an American eel it's one of the more fascinating things in the animal kingdom in my opinion. It will make you not want to kill one.
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:33 am to gumbo2176
Years ago i was at my parent's camp in Bayou Pigeon and was running lines that weekend. It seemed that about all I caught that weekend was big green eels. I picked up my hoop net and caught 15-20 catfish but all eels on lines.
When sunday came, I had cleaned all of the catfish and decided I would clean a couple of eels to try. It turned out that everyone cleaned up on the eel and only ate a little of the fried catfish fillets. The meat was very white and clean with a sweet taste similar to bass or sacalait. Cleaning them was a bitch but I found if I took a nail and drove it through the ell's head into a tree then I could skin them and then fillet the meat after the slimy arse skin was removed. I won't go out of my way to catch them, but if I happen to
catch a few, I will not hesitate to clean them and mix the fillets in with other fish.
When sunday came, I had cleaned all of the catfish and decided I would clean a couple of eels to try. It turned out that everyone cleaned up on the eel and only ate a little of the fried catfish fillets. The meat was very white and clean with a sweet taste similar to bass or sacalait. Cleaning them was a bitch but I found if I took a nail and drove it through the ell's head into a tree then I could skin them and then fillet the meat after the slimy arse skin was removed. I won't go out of my way to catch them, but if I happen to
catch a few, I will not hesitate to clean them and mix the fillets in with other fish.
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:41 am to LSU2001
Very fatty - best smoked
Posted on 5/31/21 at 11:52 am to Saskwatch
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Unagi - Very common in Japan. On every sushi menu you will see a "bbq'd eel" roll
I love unagi...these are the same species of eel?
Posted on 5/31/21 at 12:29 pm to Loup
I don't think it's the same species but they are both freshwater eel. I'd take a swing at cooking it on a charcoal grill with maybe some mild wood chips.
Posted on 5/31/21 at 2:08 pm to LSU2001
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I found if I took a nail and drove it through the ell's head into a tree then I could skin them
This is about how my dad skinned his catfish. We had a big nail driven at about a 45 degree angle into a post and he cut off the head of the nail and ground it to a point.
He'd take the catfish and shove the head on to the nail with the underside of the head toward the post and that held them enough for him to skin them. He liked his catfish breaded with corn meal and fried whole.
As for me, I only filet them first then use the filet knife to skin them like any other fish. I find that quicker and love the idea of no bones in the meat.
Posted on 5/31/21 at 2:13 pm to tenfoe
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check out the life cycle of an American eel
Very good read.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 7:07 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I have worked w/ eels for 20 yrs and they are the strangest fish that I know of. The eels we eat in sushi restaurants are almost entirely American eels (the river eels mentioned earlier). We cant aquaculture eels like other fish so all the eels we eat are American eels caught when they first come nearshore (<3" long, called glass eels), they are caught and shipped to Asia where they are grown out for the sushi trade - these young glass eels are worth $2500 a pound before they are shipped to Asia and there is a large poaching market too. Man has overfished all the eel species in the world and American eels are the most abundant ones left.
Large eels are best smoked as they are very fatty, thats typically how they are eaten in Europe where they are popular.
Large eels are best smoked as they are very fatty, thats typically how they are eaten in Europe where they are popular.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 1:08 pm to tenfoe
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Also, if you ever check out the life cycle of an American eel it's one of the more fascinating things in the animal kingdom in my opinion.
TIL a whole bunch about eels. Thanks for the suggestion!
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