Harry Bangate is the old eelman in The Big Six who lives in a derelict old hulk or houseboat, round a bend past a short stretch above the inn. The hulk has two windows, a stove, and black tarred sides (BS2,3). He is an old man of about seventy-eight with a mane of grey hair that hung down on his shoulders from under an old black hat, and he rows a small black tarred boat. Born on the Broads, he had been a wherryman once. He learned to catch eels as a small boy, taught the skill by his uncle. Harry also catches eels using eel lines and babs, and when younger used an eel-spear.