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Index of Subjects David, thanks! Another eel trap design! I have received another one or two offline. They all involve eels crawling through a small opening in a funnel (or a similar structure) and then being unable to find their way back out of the trap. The materials vary. Same principle as a minnow trap or a lobster trap..... Dusan Soudek ---- David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2411/4944 - Release Date: 04/18/12 > > >
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