THE LURE OF THE EEL.
A SUCCESSFUL CLUB. Although the Inglewood Eel Club has been in operation only four weeks, the tally already made by the clerk of scales, Mr. A. Kennedy, is a tribute aliko to the energy of its members and the productivity of. tho streams. Tho total of eels caught has already reached the huge number of 1011 which, at a low estimate, is calculated to weigh 25cwt. Practically every stream in tho district is represented, Tho biggest tallies havo been secured by Messrs. E. Bathurst (208), R. J. Patersen (142), M. Mackinder (140) and A. R. Taylor (118). Mr. C. Diamond is leading for the heaviest weight with 21.£1b., and Mr. N. Mackinder is second with 191b. Both were secured in the Ngatoro. Ono eel of 161b. was found to havo swallowed a trout 19in. long, while another of tho same weight contained a full-grown blackbird. A third and comparatively small eel, weighing 81b., contained a trout measuring ll^in.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 14
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