"Yesterday I had a very creepy experience on the river. I really freaked out actually. I was lucky to not have destroyed our video camera I had in hand. I was standing waist deep in water beside Dave in the river and I was videotaping this feeding trout on the surface that he was fishing for. The fish dropped back towards us, so to not spook it we had to be very still. The next thing you know, the tripod that the video camera was on starting shaking (which I thought was rather weird) and then moments later I felt this tap tap on my inner calf. At first I thought maybe the trout had come over and sidled up beside us on his way back upstream because we were so still in the water - but this sort of thing doesn't happen too often. The next thing I thought was that maybe some how Dave was tapping my leg with his body. I then looked down and I saw a huge head of a big Eel in between my legs. It had to be about 6 feet long. I looked at Dave and said "Oh my God there is a huge f*** Eel beside me and I started bolting for the other side of the river to get out of the water. I was absolutely shaking and Dave was freaked out too, because he hates them. I know that they can't hurt you and we have seen them before, but we can always see them from a distance. Yesterday, however, the water was a bit off color and it was harder to see in it, so we didn't see it coming. Totally and completely creepy!! Anyway, I don't wish to repeat this anytime soon. "
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