Viola's post brings back happy memories of schoolboy holidays down around Crom, setting eel lines overnight ( hundreds of yards long), the excitement of what you would (inevitably) discover the following morning, nailing then to a door post to skin them and the delicious meal that followed - fried & garnished with boiled spuds and butter. In more recent times, commercial interests took hold and I believe 'our' eels ended up being shipped to the continent to fulfil German recipes. Michael. Message: 1 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:48:44 +0100 From: "Viola Wiggins" <viola.wiggins@tesco.net> Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD Eels To: "Dee Byster-Graham" <deebg@bigpond.net.au>, <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1B3BF7759FF541AEA945EDDBCECDE140@HP93792624821> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original When I was a child [Good name for the book?] there was a man who used to buy all the Eels caught. He was known to me only as "The Eel man", and he stored floating boxes of Eels in Rossole Lough beside the Sligo Road in Enniskillen,. They were exported to London I think. [. . . .]