Moray eels
 

what do you do with them? went sharking tonight and my hole was full of them.. i usually get a few, but i couldn't let a bait set for more than 10 minutes without them tearing into it.

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Fillet them and use them for shark bait. We would use them back when I lived in Hawaii.

I would look up the DFG regulations before you do anything with them...I could be wrong but I believe they are illegal to keep.

No, you can keep10 of any size. I might use one for bait, who knows a 7 gill might love it.

Yup nose hook that sucker and send it down!:eek: make sure hes still alive though!

I tried eating one once - oily meat, but it tasted alright smoked. Skinning it was a mother though...

Just let them go -

I wonder how far I could cast one of those...? Or I could tail hook it and let it swim out. Thing is i've had bass and perch get ripped apart when bringing them in but these guys never do .. do you need a legit smoker to smoke them??

I'd CAREFULLY release the things. After eating several kinds of eels, I wondered if our morays were edible. So when I found one out of it's hole in the day time I put a spear through it. It started spinning like a crocodile on a wildebeast, bent the spear then dragged it back in to it's hole, snapping it's teeth the whole time. I was inder the impression the spear through it's body might actually kill it. Hell no. I finally got the thing up on the shore and crushed its head with a rock, put in a hefty bag, put the bag in my back pack and started wlaking home. The whole way home I could feel the damn thing writhing between my shoulder blades. In the sink it took another hour to stop moving. I could barely get my sharpest knife through the skin. In the pan te meat curled and was like rubber. Sorry, I rambled, but I wouldn't deal with another maray unless i was starving. Mike

They're a slimy PITA to mess with. They have sharp teeth and a nasty bite so I fling em out of the yak as quickly as possible.

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Years ago, a buddy of mine was bitten on the hand by a moray while bug diving. Even though he was wearing dive gloves it did a lot of damage to both sides of his hand. When we got back to the dock a couple of hours later his hand was swollen and still bleeding alot so I drove him to the ER to get it checked and cleaned up. One of the ER docs said it was good he came in because morays have a septic bite that usually gets infected. It took quite a few weeks for my friend's hand to stop hurting.

There was an interview of a guy that had a moray eels by his dock that he would dive down and feed vini mini hotdogs too
and one day he couldn't get the hot dogs out of the back and the moray eels thought his thumb was the hot dog and the eel bit his thumb off so back to saying it has a mean bit it can take a finger off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNpYxCSnUM

A video of a Giant Mora Eel bites off a diver's thumb in Thailand. :eek:

Note to self: leave morays alone

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