Gar fish
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Dusty Bannister
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Groan!
richhodg66
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I bowfished avidly for many years, have a couple of big gar mounted from thiose days. I'm kind of a fan, and this struck me as funny.
Petrol & Powder
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Missionary
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I do remember the first time I heard a Gar snapping his mouth shut on something down in a backwater spot on the Paw Paw River many years ago. Never saw a gar so large as to want to mount it.
I bow fished also... Go a 32 pound dogfish that was from the ground up to mid body when I was 15. Cut it up into chunks for our tomato plants that spring. Carp and other bottom feeders normally got the fertilizer call in the spring.
I bow fished also... Go a 32 pound dogfish that was from the ground up to mid body when I was 15. Cut it up into chunks for our tomato plants that spring. Carp and other bottom feeders normally got the fertilizer call in the spring.
Big one here.
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Caught lots of them behind the dam at Texoma on about any bait or lure. They are edible if you know how to cook them. Son caught some, Asians wanted them but he tossed them back. Illegal to give to others.
First fish she caught in texas was a gar on a cheapo fishing pole. Cut the leader and let it go!
‘Gar-gantuan’ fish pulled from the Trinity River in Liberty County
When Lance Stephens of Tarkington starts telling stories now about the fish he has...
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First fish she caught in texas was a gar on a cheapo fishing pole. Cut the leader and let it go!
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Wiresguy
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A 283 pounder was recently caught in Texas:
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Alligator gar caught in Texas weighing 283 pounds shatters multiple records: 'Four in one fell swoop'
A monster-sized alligator gar, weighing 283 pounds, has officially set four new records in both the state of Texas and around the world. Now, the anglers are ready for the next one.
richhodg66
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Gar are actually pretty good eating, but they're a pain to clean. You need sheet metal cutting tools, but there's a lot of meat on one. It's kind of a meaty fish, firmer than most fish.
Carp can be darn good as well. Try smoking it sometime. You want to cut off the reddish dark meat from under the skin first. The Y bones are the biggest hassle. Made a lot of patties like you would with canned salmon with carp, good stuff.
Carp can be darn good as well. Try smoking it sometime. You want to cut off the reddish dark meat from under the skin first. The Y bones are the biggest hassle. Made a lot of patties like you would with canned salmon with carp, good stuff.
richhodg66
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Me with one when they spawned about five or six years ago, I haven't really done much bowfishing since and wasn't really even being serious about it then. Longnose gar, not a real big one.
richhodg66
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Interestingly enough, Carp are not indigenous to North America but were introduced as a food source. People in Asia were syetmatically farming them more than 4.000 years ago. When I was in Iraq, all the waterways were full of them, exactly like the ones I bowfish for. In 2009, my buddy who was the PAO for the Brigade I was in, went to cover the opening of a fish market which the owner made happen with one of the small business grants we were giving to folks there to try to rebuild the economy (nation building is a lot harder than killing people and breaking things). Every fish there was carp. They cooked them by gutting the fish and splitting the whole thing, then spicing the inside and roasting it whole over wood coals. He brought me back some and it was quite good. They like to use a lot of sesame on things, which I like.
I just always have to wonder, Americans seem to be the only people who think carp are trash fish and not for eating.
I just always have to wonder, Americans seem to be the only people who think carp are trash fish and not for eating.
richhodg66
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Although they are similar, and eat just as well, have the same Y bones, etc. Buffalo are indigenous here. This was a big one I shot a few years ago. For reference, that bow is supposed to be 58" unstrung.
richhodg66
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A few years earlier, got into a lot of them, no real big ones, but at that time when they spawned I hit it hard and shot as many as daylight would allow. I can't get that blood thirsty anymore, just have no desire to kill things for the hell of it now.
