We might just share it with the rest of the country.ġ275 South Patrick Dr. If you witness something weird or cool in the woods or on the water and have photos to prove it, send pictures and your story to. I was fortunate to catch two of them over the years.” Most people go a lifetime without ever seeing one much less catching one. “I figured it would have to be good since its diet consists of mainly shellfish such as shrimp and crabs. “I kept the fish and cleaned it,” he said. They can grow to about 40 pounds and serve up very well on the table, as Cox attested. They generally find a crevice to live in and feed on shellfish. They are eel-like fish that inhabit the northern pacific and live on rocky bottoms in moderate depths. The fish was a wolf eel, but Cox now refers to it as “Baby Godzilla.” Wolf eels are not actually eels. When my friend netted the fish, he handed me the net and said, ‘that’s what nightmares are made of.’ My wife headed to the bow.” So, my friend grabbed the dip net when I got the fish next to the boat. “It took me a few minutes to get the fish up, and I could tell it wasn’t big enough to harpoon or gaff. “I was fishing with a 3-ounce bucktail jig in about 50 feet of water when I stuck what I thought was a halibut,” he said. While halibut fishing a few years ago with his wife and a buddy in Prince William Sound, near southern Alaska’s Valdez, Cox hooked into this monster. Newsweek reached out to Rockhold for comment, but it's not the only time that a fisherman (or an eel!) has made the news.Ī Maine fisherman caught a pregnant lobster, gave her two fish "for the road" and threw her back into the ocean, footage shows.Ī shrimp eel took beachgoers in Georgia by surprise when it washed ashore.Īnd a long-standing state record for the largest American eel caught in Missouri has been broken after 28 years.Before moving down to the Gulf of Mexico, Shawn Cox, of Pearl River, La., spent 17 years living in Alaska and enjoying the excellent hunting and fishing. Females can lay up to 10,000 eggs in their dens, where both the male and female care and guard them for four-to-five months while they hatch and mature. The Seattle Aquarium says that juvenile wolf eels spend their early lives in the open water: "Once they mature and find a mate, they select a den and typically spend the rest of their lives living in it." Imagine a snake slithering on the ground. While at sea, wolf eels live in water as deep as 740 feet–where they swim in deep S-shapes. Reid added that the creature is almost enamored with not being seen, with aquarium visitors getting good views typically during afternoon feedings. It may be a vicious-looking eel, but it totally has the opposite temperament." "Their jaws are very strong and if you got your finger in there you'd regret it. "They've got faces only a mother could love," said Scott Reid, who cares for wolf eels at Monterey Bay Aquarium. However, the aquarium said wolf eels are not usually targeted by fishermen–such as the ones who carefully placed the eels back in the water in the aforementioned TikTok videos.
New Hampshire Man Catches Record-Breaking 12lb Fish, Almost 3ft Long.Diver Gets Mouth Cleaned by Fish in Deep, Deadly Blue Hole.Kolohe the Hawaiian Monk Seal Dies from Parasitic Disease Spread by Cats."Every time I question whether my fear of the ocean is irrational, something like this reminds me that it's not," another user said.
"You are showing me something I've literally never seen in 35 years," one user told Rockhold. TikTokers, a few of whom admitted they had never seen wolf eels prior to the video, were quite smitten with these creatures. When asked if the wolf eels enjoy eating crab, he humorously replied, "It's like an underwater crab buffet." Rockhold, in a comment under one of his videos, said even he "was kind of tripping" when he saw the eels in the traps. "That thing is so ugly."Īdditional videos apparently posted on the same day include two other wolf eels caught in traps. "Dude, are you kidding me?" said one fisherman overheard in the background. Rockhold said a big fishbone vertebra is in the eel's mouth when it was brought to the surface.
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The video, posted on TikTok April 14 by professional surfer and commercial fisherman Matt Rockhold, features a gray-colored creature known as a wolf eel that got caught in a crap trap during a fishing expedition in Monterey Bay. A video of wolf eels being caught in crab traps has captivated the internet to the tune of 64 million views and counting.
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