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The International Eelpout Festival is an annual gathering held in the town of Walker Minnesota. It celebrates the rather unfortunate looking Eelpout an indigenous bottom dwelling fish that inhabits the regions lakes in some cases being found as deep as 300m. The fish itself is described as a cross between a catfish and eel giving it a slender disposition but retaining a tapered midsection with a full complement of pectoral and caudal fins.