"Susan" > wrote in message
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> Thanks so much, everyone, for all the good advice. I am going to try
> out each and every suggestion. A French lady whose husband is an avid
> angler told me that she marinates shad overnight in olive oil, garlic
> and a little lemon juice and they eat them as hors d'oeuvres. Sounds
> like bony rollmops to me, but they probably taste delicious. We too
> have eels in the river as well as a creature called a lamprey. When I
> saw one hooked up in someones line, I thought it was a visitation from
> a Space Alien. Dreadful looking monster. We also have salmon at
> certain times of the year, when they come in from the sea and swim
> upriver to spawn. What a shame my husband is a lousy fisherman and has
> never caught anything in all the years we have been married. Once
> again, merci bien et bon appetit.
>
Lamprey eels appeared in Lake Michigan when I was a child. They came in
through the canal system with the ocean-going ships. In a very short time
the lamprey had destroyed almost all the native fish in the Great Lakes.
They latch onto the side of other fish with their sucker mouth. They are
very unpleasant looking.
Janet