gar fish

[longspur]

this 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#

[spurman]

Big fish, well done. Boy I bet that armor plated thing was hard to clean.

[hookedspur]

 

[Hognutz]

Nice fish, I guess..I bet she had her hands full..

[pappy]

Nice 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.....

[stone road turkey calls]

get them to the boat shoot them and cut the line

[bird]

Nice gar!

My son just set the Iowa State record for a short nose gar earlier this year at 34" and 6lbs 10oz.  He shot it with a bow.

bird

[Tail Feathers]

NIce gar!

I've seen a 180 pounder taken from my local lake.  But it was an alligator gar.
I haven't bowfished for 'em in years but my biggest was around 40 pounds.

Mean looking toothy crittes they are!

[Reloader]

Nice one. Congrats

I ate them once and it was pretty tasty. We have huge gator gar around here, we see 6 footers pretty often in some lakes. Some folks get them up around 200lbs once in a while. 



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[LX_Trkyhntr]

Nice 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.....

Now that's a cool fishing story!!

[LX_Trkyhntr]

this 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#

Congrats to your wife, that's a big one for sure!!  I've heard of people cleaning them too, but we never have.

[stinkpickle]

NICE!!!  I've never caught one myself...not sure what I'd do with it if I did.

My father-in-law recently mounted an alligator gar from Louisiana.  I think he said it was around the 130# mark.  Yikes!....

[longspur]

them alligator gar get to be monsters. I'm kinda glad we don't have them around here. Here's what I do. roll them in news paper, freeze them, saw them into slices as thick as you want, the gut being frozen will fall right out, take a knife and go around the skin, PRESTO, fish steak. Easy as pie.