Quote Originally Posted by DaveR View Post
Do Gar have any natural predator? Are they any good to eat? Seems like there are many of them in Nolin (for example) Just curious how then may affect or change a fishery. What do they eat, shad? Just thinking that too much of anything can eventually be a bad thing.
These are real good questions to address to your local KDFWR Fisheries Biologist. My experience with them has been that they're always happy to answer any question you send them, and they usually do so pretty quickly. You can get a listing from KDFWR's web site. But I can tell you that gar are prehistoric fish, native to Kentucky waters, so it would be their absence, not their presence, that would change the fishery. Also, I'd guess that there probably aren't more of them present; you may be just seeing more of them because of the hot dry summer we've had. Gars like warm water.

Do a Google search on "gar fishing" (leave out the quotation marks), and you'll find more info than you ever wanted to know about gars.