Quote Originally Posted by linedrager View Post
belive it or not gar is very good eating as well, I have tried it one time, it is a difficult fish to clean, I couldn't get a knife through the skin so I used tin snips, it is a very foul smelling creature, not to much different than a shark, but all in all they taste pretty good if you can get through cleaning them.
Growing up in Alabama one of my family favorites was Gar Boulettes. You have to bleed and gut the fish immediately after catching it (while avoiding the teeth) and keep it on ice for an hour or so. You then fillet the skin off the meat then fillet the meat from the carcass. A serrated fillet knife works very well.

I convinced my hubby to keep a musky one time and tried the Gar Boulette recipe with it. It didn't work and I still catch heck from him because of the odor the musky left on the boat carpet. He always says a musky is living proof that gar and carp-----have relationships.