{"id":22681,"date":"2026-03-03T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=22681"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:50:42","slug":"eel-man-ray-turner-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2026\/03\/eel-man-ray-turner-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Eel Man Ray Turner: End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglersjournal.com\/freshwater\/end-of-an-era\/\">Eel Man Ray Turner: End of an Era<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The timeworn fish weir on the East Branch of the Delaware River may have trapped its last eel. The stone-and-wood structure in Hancock, New York, has been operated for decades by Ray Turner, whom locals refer to as \u201cThe Eel Man.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turner is something of a recluse, a throwback to earlier times and the analog world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We rent a house on the East Branch for a few days most summers, walking distance to Ray&#8217;s smokehouse, and have enjoyed both his stock and his stories over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On our last visit he told us he&#8217;s no longer running the eel trap, the &#8220;geezerism&#8221; got him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eel Man Ray Turner: End of an Era: The timeworn fish weir on the East Branch of the Delaware River may have trapped its last eel. The stone-and-wood structure in Hancock, New York, has been operated for decades by Ray Turner, whom locals refer to as \u201cThe Eel Man.\u201d Turner is something of a recluse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[210,286,287],"class_list":["post-22681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-hancock-ny","tag-ray-turner","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5TP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22681"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22688,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681\/revisions\/22688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}