frustration

[kygorski]

With the bony mouth they are hard to hook and hold, they can be caught using nylon thread used for making afgans. The nylon makes it harder for them to get rid of the hook before a solid hook set. I also was toldm they were a fairly good tasting fish, they used to be a food source in the nolin river before the dam.the locals made fish patties out of them. Sounds likle a job for the food processor.Drum, I have eaten them, wouldn't rate them very high, but in La they are commonly table fare, thats where I tried them, along with alligator. The last two mardi gras I saw, led to some strange behaviorial patters for me, must have been those tall icy hurricanes.

[twise7]

Not sure I'ld want to eat anything that took tin snips to cut through...then again, I enjoy hot dogs from time to time...and we all know what those are made of!!

Mmmmm, gator. Love me some gator! There's a place on Lake Okeechobee that serves all kinds of wild game - frogs, gator, etc., but the best is cooter...yup, you read it right, cooter (it's turtle). Talk about good eatin! I could eat cooter all day

[GeoFisher]

Did you all see the recent episode of KY Afield with Tim Farmer bow hunting those things? I was really impressed with how he could shoot those things with a bow and arrow using his teeth!! I can't shoot a bow straight with two perfectly working arms...the man is amazing.

One thing I didn't notice in that clip was what they did with the fish after they shot it...do you think they put them back in the water?? Did they keep them and clean them or dispose of them somewhere else?

He stated he was going to use them as fertilizer in his garden.

[slobslayer]

Surefire Gar Recipe; 1. Skin and fillet gar. 2. Soak fillets in a premium domestic beer overnight. 3. Remove fillets from beer the next morning. 4. Throw away fillets and drink the beer.