Eel spearing, on the mill pond, Boston

Title:: Eel spearing, on the mill pond, Boston
Date:: [ca. 1851]
Format:: Prints
Newspapers
Genre:: Wood engravings
Periodical illustrations
Clippings
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Boston Pictorial Archive
Series:: General Views of Boston > General Views
Subjects:: Cities & towns
Lakes & ponds
Spear fishing
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Mill Pond (historical)
Extent:: 1 print : wood engraving ; 5 x 9 1/4 in.
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Image caption: Eel catching. During the cold weather, when the so-called Back Bay, or Mill Pond, in the rear of the city and bordering on the Mill Dam, is frozen over, such scenes as our artist has sketched for us are daily represented. Men who make fishing their business and those who resort thither for pleasure, may be seen screened by their wind tents, industriously pursuing their operations. Smelting and eeling is made a source of considerable profit in this way. Some of the smartest fishermen will spear twelve or fifteen dozen eels in a day, and catch as many smelts. It is a sight worth a long walk to see, and some of our housed citizens, who scarcely stir abroad in the cold weather, must muffle up and go down to the foot of Beacon street and witness the scene.
Identifier:: 08_02_001091