Gervase Markham in his ‘The English Husbandman’ of 1635 provides instructions on how: To take Eels in Winter, Make a long bottle or tube of Hay, wrapped about Willow boughs, and having guts or garbage in the middles. Which being soaked in the deep water by the river side, after two or three days the … Continue reading How to Take Eels in Winter, Eel Pies and Islands 28th November