Thread: Eel in lake russell ?

Originally Posted by OpiemusRex

I used to catch them in the Mill Pond in Lexington fishing for catfish under the bridge at S. Main/Hwy 6 there were quite many in that pond.

Well they all in the Saluda River now since the flood took out all the dams on that creek. LOL

Maybe your talking something diffefent, but up here we have fresh water lampreys which look like an eel but have a circular mouth with rows of teeth. They come up the rivers the spring to spawn.

When I was a kid I used to wade the local river below an old dam in the shallow gravel beds where they make their nests. I would snare them with an old broom stick with a piano wire loop. The chief of police would give me a buck a head for them. Big money for a kid back in the late fifties.

They kill off the fish by attaching and draining them of blood. Caught my share of fish with round scars from Lampreys.

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