Show A gafis occurrence sl t Ecken acl catch aimont unpin alleged in alo annul of A remarkable haul of eels was made the other day by cosmos eckonrode who was fishing along the there is a variety of eels known as the tandem eel which is very seldom found in this state though common in the west A peculiarity of this variety is that they travel when migrating single file about six inches apart and maintain that distance exactly during the time of their progress if one of the lot shoots ahead too rapidly the one following immediately grasps him by the tail in order to drag him back to his proper place in the line they appear to leave a remarkable instinct for distance and the variation of an inch will cause the rear eel to exercise his authority to put the brakes on the one ahead while mr eckenrode was fishing he hooked one of the travelers a very remarkable circumstance as they seldom bite while migrating As soon as he had booked it he of course gave a haul on the line which caused this particular eel to shoot ahead lie was immediately grasped by the one following and as that one likewise shot ahead the next one did the same so that when mr eckenrode began to haul out be found a solid rope of eels dropping his rod and line he grasped the living rope and began to haul in hand over hand lie kept hauling in and piling up the eels until he was utterly exhausted when he was obliged to stop and cut the connection he quickly ran for assistance and a number of the neighbors came to help him take caro of his rare catch when they were all gathered up and loaded on wagons it was found that he had pounds about 50 worth were sent to the reading market and the rest were distributed among his neighbors the news of his remarkable kable catch has spread all over the upper part of the county and a great many fishermen have been endeavoring to repeat it but without success since according to natural ests an occurrence of this sort is one of alie rarest in fishing reading herald |