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freshwater eel

Post by clam man » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:14 pm

At the outflow of Lake Maraget, in King county, there used to be large numbers of what looked like eels, swimming in the water near the discharge pipe coming out of the dam.

This was over 15 years ago that my friends and I saw them, in fact we went back several times to check them out. They were definitely not trout or bass or catfish, but eel like. I don't have pictures.

This waterway is the head of a creek that flows down to the snoqualamie watershed.

Any ideas? Do we have freshwater eels in streams or lakes up here?

I drove by the site the other day, and remembered going down there to check these things out...thought someone on here might know.
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RE:freshwater eel

Post by Amx » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:15 pm

Probably snakehead fishy thingies. Image
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RE:freshwater eel

Post by clam man » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:17 pm

yeah...I don't think so. This was over 15 years ago...

I saw a show on those snakeheads on the chesapeake and potomac rivers out east...scary.
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RE:freshwater eel

Post by BentRod » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:18 pm

lamprey eels are prominent in the Columbia River. Used to see them at the viewing windows of the dams.
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Post by racfish » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:24 pm

I've caught eels in Lk Wa before. They are real wiggly. They gave me the Heebie-Jeebies.Ive seen the Lamphreys in the Columbia at the Bonnevile dam cam.Im sure there are some fish in our waters that we havent seen yet.
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Post by clam man » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:28 pm

Lamprey seems more like it, size wise and shape wise.

Gross. We waded through the water and stirred them all up, it was kind of freaky to be surrounded by them.
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Post by clam man » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:32 pm

found this on the web..

Looks like what I saw.

http://aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/zoology/spe ... _final.pdf
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Post by G-Man » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:34 pm

If I were to place a bet on what they were, it would be on Lamprey. I know for a fact they are in Lake Washington and will run up rivers and streams to spawn as do salmon and trout.
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Post by BentRod » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:34 pm

clam man wrote:Lamprey seems more like it, size wise and shape wise.

Gross. We waded through the water and stirred them all up, it was kind of freaky to be surrounded by them.
You think that's freaky, go look at them stuck to the glass of the viewing windows. Their mouths look like they could suck your face off. :shaking:

The one pictured in the link you posted was pretty small. The one's I remember were a couple feet long.
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Post by Dustin07 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:39 pm

those things are icky.

i bet they taste good tho.
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Post by The Quadfather » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:15 pm

Dustin07 wrote:those things are icky.

i bet they taste good tho.
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Post by curado » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:33 pm

yes we do i cant remember the name of them the are not lampreys. creek eels is wat they r
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Post by fishaholictaz » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:38 pm

Probably Lamprey eels.In the Willamette down in Oregon City there are times of the year the Natives go to the falls and harvest them. I guess they run up river and hit the falls and ball up I am sure this is what you saw...
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Post by curado » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:45 pm

how long are they
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Post by wolverine » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:01 pm

I like sushi, but the smoked eel goes in the garbage.
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Post by Shad_Eating_Grin » Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:26 am

clam man wrote:At the outflow of Lake Maraget, in King county, there used to be large numbers of what looked like eels, swimming in the water near the discharge pipe coming out of the dam.

This was over 15 years ago that my friends and I saw them, in fact we went back several times to check them out. They were definitely not trout or bass or catfish, but eel like. I don't have pictures.

This waterway is the head of a creek that flows down to the snoqualamie watershed.

Any ideas? Do we have freshwater eels in streams or lakes up here?

I drove by the site the other day, and remembered going down there to check these things out...thought someone on here might know.
Probably Western Brook Lamprey. Loads of them in the mud of issaquah creek where it dumps into Lake Samm.

The Western Brook Lamprey is not a sea-going lamprey. The Pacific Lamprey found in the Columbia and that folks mentioned above is sea-going
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