American Eel In Iowa Rivers

[JIvers]

I was fishing the Iowa River in Iowa City late last summer, and landed this little fellow:

I've caught a couple American eels like this one on the Mississippi, but this is the first I've caught in an interior river, much less seventy miles from the Mississippi.

[Mr.Seaguar]

You have the biggest wrist and watchband I have ever seen. My sister and friends used to catch them in the Des Moines by Oskaloosa.

[reinhard1]

cool fish. when i was a kid in germany we ate a lot of eel. when the river flooded we used to look under logs and cought them by hand at times. my dad fished for them behind a dam and when we got home he would nail the head of the eel to a board and make some cuts and peel the skin right off them. they were good, emptied our plates every time. good luck.