1900"s pic of Ell rack

[SmokeinTN]

Looking through pics come across this old one. Great Grand father and Grand father built this Ell rack on the Susquehanna river.  I heard a good source of revenue at the time. Enjoy.

 

[mowin]

Neat pic, but what's a Ell rack?

[Marion]

Think its for catching fish?

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[Marion]

Think its a an eel weir

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[SmokeinTN]

2 hours ago, The Jerkman said:

Think its a an eel weir

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Yep bad move on the key board my mistake seen it wrong on the pic. And went blank. Thanks for the correction JM.  

[Pygmy]

My grandfather used to put out set lines for eels  on the Chemung River near Corning, back before the dams on the Susquehanna  blocked their  passage upstream...

Back when I was a mere wisp of a lad, we used to catch an eel now and then when we were fishing the river for bullheads..As I remember it, they tasted very similar to bullheads when fried...

[tommyc50]

back in the mid 60's to the early 70's we would drive rt 97 up to my grand mothers house in narrowsberg and @ all the rapids you would see pots or weirs or what ev er they call them .It was a big thing smoked eels in the restaurants and road side stands . We use catch a lot of them in Jamaica bay[saltwater] but we were kids and  would give them to the striped bass fishermen

[tommyc50]

oh sorry that was the Delaware river