Well, actually, it wasn't a hovercraft, it was a John boat that I stood up in to poll around, but it WAS an eel. An actual eel! Have you ever tried to pick up an eel out of a boat? Most fish are slippery (file fish are notably NOT slippery. You can play catch with a file fish without fear of dropping it. Fear of getting speared with it is a different matter), but eels are SUPER slippery. Other fish say to them, "dang man, you're slick!"

So, how do you get an eel our of your hovercraft, or any other kind of boat? We had to use a cloth. Couldn't pick the darn thing up with bare hands, and it was smiling at us the whole time.

I don't recall whether I had a picture of that fish. Probably not. If I had, I have since lost it. Anybody reading this will probably assume that I have lost it. That's not the same thing. I was looking over TG's Eels in a Hovercraft guide and realized that I HAVE had to deal with such a thing. It's an absurd question to ask on a programming forum, but it's not an absurd question to ask.