I've Got Eels in My Hovercraft!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[Steve R Jones]

Is it true that they taste just like Chicken?

//asking for a friend

[FunkyDexter]

What you need is some jelly.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Jelly fish?

I've never eaten eel. I hear they can be quite delicious, but that one eel was the first, and only one, that I have ever seen. I just don't frequent places with eels. What was really surprising about that eel was that we had been sampling the fish population in that area for years and that was the only eel we ever saw. I guess it was on vacation, or something. We thought we knew what was around there (and there were a LOT of different fish species, to be sure), so finding something totally novel was a bit of a surprise.

[Delaney]

if you eat an eel on a hill, do you heal or do you become ill ?

by the way, I had some in a Japanese restaurant and it's very good.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Somebody had to make the ill/eel relationship. I'm just surprised that I never got around to it. I certainly thought about it, I just didn't take any post in that direction.