Catching A Giant Electric Eel With Rubber Gloves | EEL | River Monsters

I've traveled the world tracking down river monsters in some of the most dangerous waters imaginable but my journey to catch a deadly electric eel ends at a mud hole in the middle of cattle pasture it's the last place on earth I'd expect to find an elusive lethal fish I'm just making a bit of a trench from my point of view it'll be easier to handle if there's some kind of sort of knowledge that it's in rather than it's being able to slip and slide all over the place my normal capture method would be useless in water this shallow so out goes the rod and in comes a lass ooh fitting for cowboy country because electric eels don't rely on physical strength pulling it out of the water shouldn't be that hard but not getting shocked will be so protective clothing is essential we've got a plan the plan is not so much to sort of go after the head with the noose but to position that and then get it to go through the noose just taking a few deep breaths because one slip and you know it could be very nasty indeed need to be so focused in so careful boundaries a meal this size can deliver a shock of 650 volts that's enough to stop my heart in seconds first go amazing first go electric eels can keep on shocking out of water but the rubber gloves we're wearing protect us from this look at the colors on this thing this I wonder I've got to give it a clean that is like it's doing a sort of it looks like a muscle contraction spasm almost that's when it's actually shocking because electric eels get most of their oxygen from breathing air they can stay out of water for long periods of time that's five foot ten and a half that's pretty much exactly the same as as me this is exactly the same size as the eel that killed Francisco the 21 year old man who died in the tiny pond near Villanova if I wasn't wearing these rubber gloves I could be dead too it's over a hundred degrees and I don't want the fish to overheat so time it went back in the water the pond may be shallow at the moment but the rains are not far behind me the waters will soon rise giving this eel the freedom to roam once again my search led me to this tiny drying out puddle I mean the water in there is barely six inches Deva is the last place you'd expect to find a river monster but that's where it was allowed me our mission under way more than there's more there's more there's more it's not just this big one but again it looks like wood but it started moving we were watching it and it looks like there's actually several but smaller right in with these roots here I've just never seen anything like this before it's like a tangle of bodies I'm just trying to count the head the more I look the more I see I was thinking 10 or a dozen I think they could be 20 now this is a masoom it may look like a true eel but it is in fact another all three Cowboys were thrown into the water

Channel: River Monsters™

Views: 29,142,785

Rating: 4.7787223 out of 5

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Id: rkWfxOp6m9w

Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 29 2015