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Hi Dusan & All, Apr 20, 2012
I have never used or seen an eel trap but I understand from a foksy book
(Older ways... ISBN 0-442-29628-2) that eel traps used to be woven locally
using Withewood (Viburnum cassinoides) or Willow in Europe.
It is essentially a knee-high basket with a removable top (to add bait
or remove eels) and a funnel-shaped bottom. It is set with the bottom facing
downstream. Eels enter the large end of the funnel, exit into the basket
through the stem end of the funnel and can't find the way back out.
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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From: "Dusan Soudek" <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:11 AM
Subject: [NatureNS] Eel Traps ?
> Recently, while cleaning up a campsite on Hants County's Herbert River,
> I came across a pair of cone-shaped pieces of galvanized metal with holes
> at the apices. Bits of rusted chicken wire were still attached.
> A local fisherman told me that they are the end-pieces of a cylindrical
> eel trap. Obviously, the chicken wire that had held the pair of conical
> metal endpieces together (and the captured eels inside) had rusted out.
> Anyone on NatureNS with an eel trap story? Are there other designs of
> eel traps out there, besides these cylinders and besides eel weirs? What
> do you use for bait?
> Dusan Soudek
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