Bowfin...gar, odd request.

[quote=kyfanatic;336946]How'd you like to snag this?

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That picture never gets old to me! Too bad the gator gar dont come up the Ohio like they use to. :( The amazing thing is, gator gars can get even bigger!

Here is a picture of a golden gar. This particular one is simply a common shortnose gar, just with a genetic mutation. I wouldnt blink an eye dropping $2000 on a fish like that!!![URL]http://www.fishingfury.com/categories/freshwater-species/alligator-gar/[/URL]

Can't speak for a bowfin,but I've ate roast garfish Cajun style when I lived in Louisiana several times and it tasted just fine to me.Of course I drank plenty of beer in those days too.

[QUOTE=JD7.62;336129]Any good spots near Louisville to catch some bowfin? I know the river is full of gar.

Also kind of an odd request but, besides being a fisherman, Im also an avid collector of the rarest of the rare predatory fish. I'm will to spend $1000-5000 for a red/gold/yellow gar or albino bowfin and $500-1000 for a mellanistic (all black) gar or bowfin. Fish must be live of course! Anyone ever seen such fish?

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Hello I am from upstate NY and my son on Aug 2nd caught an albino bowfin 9 lbs. Would you know if there is a record for this fish? He caught it a year to the day he lost his younger brother. It was certainly special. No one here has ever seen one.If interested please email back, Please...Thanks Much :)

[QUOTE=kyfanatic;336984]Can't speak for a bowfin,but I've ate roast garfish Cajun style when I lived in Louisiana several times and it tasted just fine to me.Of course I drank plenty of beer in those days too.[/QUOTE]

"Boy Howdy" on the beer! Lived down there myself for nine years wasn't a big deal to have transom full of empty beer cans. Use to go out an fish specifically for gar and a fight indeed. We'd fight more of them than we'd catch as the trick was getting that hook set. Ate gar fish on many occasions. Cajun lady would beg us to bring em to her and she'd cook it up.

[QUOTE=JD7.62;336914] .... have you ever caught a black nosed crappie? The crappie with the "racing stripe" from their chin up and over to their dorsal.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I have. I actually caught one out of Cedar Creek Lake, a few years back. I also catch them out of Watts Bar Res. (E Tenn).

They are also reported to be in KY Lake & Dale Hollow ... but the cream de la cream lake for Blacknose, is probably Center Hill.

They are simply a Black Crappie, that occurs naturally in some waterways ... with a variant pigment gene that creates the stripe. They were originally used by biologists, to test small impoundments for stocking to see the results of growth & predation ... since they were easily identified vs the native fish. I believe they were originally found & taken from a section of the White River, in Arkansas ... but, there are several other states (13 of them) that have naturally occurring populations.

.... pappy

Gar! Cumberland river, all the creeks have the short nose gar in them, Dale also has a lot of gar. Hook quite a few of them trolling for crappie on hotntots, but landing them is something else. .When we were in Louisiana, a coon---,showed us a trick that really worked.!/4 oz jig, white twister tail, and a piece of red nylon yarn fluff it up, it tangles in their teeth for a second giving you time to set the hook. The yarn thing I forgot about, but we used yarn with our spawn sacks for the same results when drifting baits for steelhead.Bow fin or grinnel, maybe barren river, saw a few caught there.Yes they will tear up a rapala or rouge.

[QUOTE=JD7.62;336129]Any good spots near Louisville to catch some bowfin? I know the river is full of gar.

Also kind of an odd request but, besides being a fisherman, Im also an avid collector of the rarest of the rare predatory fish. I'm will to spend $1000-5000 for a red/gold/yellow gar or albino bowfin and $500-1000 for a mellanistic (all black) gar or bowfin. Fish must be live of course! Anyone ever seen such fish?

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I have an albino Bowfin if your interested.

The sloughs around patoka national wildlife refuge are loaded with bowfin. Snakey point in Oakland City has plenty of them and there is another slough in Oatsville that has an even better population. The water in this slough is crystal clear, you could spotfish them. This is about 2 hours from you.

[QUOTE=JD7.62;336129]Any good spots near Louisville to catch some bowfin? I know the river is full of gar.

Also kind of an odd request but, besides being a fisherman, Im also an avid collector of the rarest of the rare predatory fish. I'm will to spend $1000-5000 for a red/gold/yellow gar or albino bowfin and $500-1000 for a mellanistic (all black) gar or bowfin. Fish must be live of course! Anyone ever seen such fish?

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I don't know the answer but I would make sure that it isn't against the law for individuals to buy/sell wild caught fish before soliciting for them. I seem to recall reading once that there were regulations regarding this type of thing.

Maybe someone who knows more could answer it.

[QUOTE=SLP;560437]I don't know the answer but I would make sure that it isn't against the law for individuals to buy/sell wild caught fish before soliciting for them. I seem to recall reading once that there were regulations regarding this type of thing.

Maybe someone who knows more could answer it.[/QUOTE]

They are completely legal in North Carolina because they are so common. I can 5-6 lb bowfin everyday.

[QUOTE=Patricheath;560449]They are completely legal in North Carolina because they are so common. I can 5-6 lb bowfin everyday.[/QUOTE]

I don't know anything about North Carolina and I wasn't thinking about their commonness but instead that in Kentucky individuals weren't allowed to catch and sell any wild fish without special licensing to do so. But again I could be wrong in what I remember reading. I just figured I would mention it just in case to help him possibly avoid a headache, and that he may want to check it out further.