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Eel With Legs
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Hillbilly stalker
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Favors a mud dog from the picture.
35 Whelen
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Hellbender
Siren.
This is what they look like:
Nope, not even close. Hellbenders only live in clean, cold mountain trout streams, and are stocky and wrinkly with a big head. See them fairly often around here.
This is what they look like:
Artfuldodger
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Amphiuma are found in the southeastern United States. They have smooth skin, very long bodies, and very tiny legs. In fact, amphiuma look like eels and are sometimes called eels.
Interesting in that they are nocturnal. I've only seen them caught in blackwater at night.
It is a salamander. I thought it was an eel with legs. Freshwater eels are also nocturnal but I think they are classified as a fish.
Interesting in that they are nocturnal. I've only seen them caught in blackwater at night.
It is a salamander. I thought it was an eel with legs. Freshwater eels are also nocturnal but I think they are classified as a fish.
buckpasser
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I was crazy about salamanders as a kid. I would look for them all day while my dad fly fished. I never saw one of the benders until last year with my family hiking around at near Bryson City. It was surprisingly docile and we enjoyed the meeting.
buckpasser
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The sirens seem to be in all the ponds around here. You see them when you dig out an old pond. They’re burrowed in the mud and they can be pretty darn big!
I have had hellbenders more than once come out from under a rock and try to snatch trout off a string tied to my belt while I was wading and fishing.
They are similar to sirens, but they are bigger, have much smaller legs, and a round tail instead of a flat one like the siren there. The sirens usually have a gold-speckled color, too.
27metalman
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This one only had two legs with four toes on each leg. Gold specs all over the body. I got to thinking... it's been 40 yrs since I last seen one of these. I guess I need to look more often.
660griz
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Looks kinda like a mud puppy to me. What did it taste like? 
oldfella1962
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Yeah, it's disconcerting. Them things are fascinating, but ugly as homemade sin.okay I would officially freak out right about then!
Amphiuma pholeter
An eel like salamander.
An eel like salamander.
killerv
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friend of mine caught one in a fish trap, narliest thing I've ever seen
hopper
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Had a snake do that to me once when I was a teenager. Unlike most of you I hate snakes. I still think about it today whenever I have a stringer tied to me.
That's not an Amphiuma in the OP. It's a greater siren.
You know better than me, never ran into one.
Theturtle
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I’ve caught a bass with one in its belly
