only use regular PayPal to provide purchase protection
Started by longspur, July 24, 2011, 07:42:56 AM
Quote from: pappy on July 24, 2011, 11:35:23 AMNice Gar...wish I had taken the time to take a pic of the one I had snagged in 1978....we were snagging in what is called the Little River Drainage system in Southeast Missouri, I hung something and started reeling, it fought like a bolder with a tail, never surfaced until I got it to near the bank, wow....it looked like a log with scales. My buddy jumped in the water and as I got it closer he immediately leaped back out and hollered "GAR" I played with it for thirty minutes, when we finnaly got it out, it was huge! The eyes were twice the size of silver dollars, we heaved it in the back of my truck, the nose touched the back of the cab and the tail was hanging off the tailgate, so I would say it was at least nine feet long! We didn't officially weigh it, but we guessed it weigh at least fifty pounds! Where we live gar are a nuisance fish, we didn't know about cleaning one, but there was an old man who did, we took it to him, he danced a jig! He told us the secret was to sking it and cut the meat out along the back and then beat it to a pulp...later he told told me it was like eating Jack Salmon and he thanked me over and over ......just thought I would share this ...pappy....oh, I forgot....there was a hook in the fish's jaw, and it still was connected to a line, so I pulled on it and ended up with a zebco 202 on a graphite rod!!!!! I took the rod to my dad, he loved to fish, so this big ol monster had already been a menace to some poor kid fishing.....
Quote from: longspur on July 24, 2011, 07:42:56 AMthis one was about all little wifie could handle. If I had the drag set a little tighter it would have drug her in. Found out how to clean them a few years ago. they pretty good. Ga. state record is 28# 6oz. This one is 26#