Thread: Greenwood is gar infested

All I have to do is get close to a gar and it will bite my hook Just a gold hook and a minnow.

Good that you catch some keeper fish

Youve done a day's work when you get spawning gar to bite. Eating aint on their mind right now.:o:D

ive always caught them while fishing for catfish with a small bream and a wire leader.

On a balmy summer late afternoon I've had pretty good luck with the rope lures. As long as ANYTHING else will bite I wont fish for 'em though.:rolleyes:

There is a lot of GAR up in the river on Murray too! This is there spawn, but we've been routinely hooking about 3 or 4 a trip. My uncle hooked two that were around the 20 lb mark on a jig!

Believe it or not we used to leave places that had Gar because we thought they had run the crappie out, but now we do just the opposite. If there are Gar, then there are Crappie. That's a good sign to me when I pull up on spot.

I have had them grab my Crank Bait before. When Bass fishing was slow in Fla, I used to play with them with a Rapala I've read on another bd where there good to eat, they claim the meat comes out of the back like tenderloins, I'll take there word for it though.

Originally Posted by beagler

I have had them grab my Crank Bait before. When Bass fishing was slow in Fla, I used to play with them with a Rapala I've read on another bd where there good to eat, they claim the meat comes out of the back like tenderloins, I'll take there word for it though.

I cleaned one that we shot bow fishing one time. They are a pain to clean, but you are right about the backstraps coming out. It's almost like a deer.

I chopped his head off with a hatchet, used tin snips to cut him down his back, and then filleted the backstraps out with a good knife. You can cut the backstraps into nuggets and they fry them and they eat pretty good. A little chewy, but it's really white meat. They eat about like fried scallops.....REDNECK SCALLOPS!

CB, when I was young (and dumb) and fresh married I joined the volunteer fire dept. in my area. It was just a bunch of good ole boys known to take a drink or three. One night we BBQed hams for a BBQ to be served the next day. There was to be a fish fry for us workers (and I say that loosely...a few were workers that was dedicated to doing things right and the rest of us were the drinkers:rolleyes::D) The cook loved his hourderves (sp?) so after that first plate of fish were gone we were informed we just ate gar. Well, if it was...then it was good enough!:p And that was as close as I've ever became interested enough to wanting to try and eat any gar.:rolleyes::D