quote:Originally posted by Biggie Hoffman: I thought everyone knew that!
Same here! Ironically, the guys name was Darwin...
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We used to eat bass and bluegill eggs when I was a kid and had time to fish. I would have never known about the gar eggs and thought it might be handy to post.
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Since everyone is ok...might I do at least 2/3 of a PUN... the P & U?
That story is GAR-ish!
devil made me do it...
Always ate shad roe...considered a delicacy here in the East... tried catfish eggs... not so pleasant. Never saw a gar but visiting FL as a kid, but even w/ losing short-term memory, I'll REMEMBER this one!
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There are a few different species of gar and some hybrids. I have always been taught to never eat any gar. I see some fishermen keeping them now and then. Now days alligator gar are off limits or at least I understood that. Indians use to use the scales of the alligator gar for armor as well as arrowheads. Get this up until about a hundred years ago American settlers used wooden plows that were cover with gar scales. It was believed for hundreds upon hundreds of years that metal plows would poison the field so wood was employed and coverd in gar scales here in the States for durability. I have an advertisement with Fred Bear bowfishing a giant alligator gar. Roe is a bonus to catching an edible fish, it's good stuff.
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We used the metal eyelets on the boat to break the jaws of every Gar we ever caught on our trot lines.. I would have to be pretty hungry to eat a gar...
Glad everyone is alright...!
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WOW, who'd a thunk it ? never had a clue they were poisonous, good stuff here.
I gotta be in the mood for fish anyway, fish eggs dont sound like anything I'd take a hankerin for, I'd have to be sure nuff hungry before I'd go for it.
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Lot's of people in Louisiana eat gar. We make gar balls. Good stuff. Gar pick up toxins on their own from the water in which they live. Any type PCB's etc in a reservoir seem to collect in the gar first and with a higher level than other fish. We have a local lake, get this, it is the city water supply, that has a warning, do not eat the gar due to the high levels of PCB's. But we drink the water with no effect? It seems gar then catfish pick the toxins first, then sport fish, bass and bream.
If you have never tried it, Google gar ball recipes and try them.
Good stuff;
Billy
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I second Billy's advocation for Gar Balls. The ones I had were a lot like a hushpuppy with finely ground fish in it. REALLY TASTY!
As a kid, we used to always hit the Sand Bass run. Most folks probably know them as White Bass, it's the State Fish of Oklahoma.
Wasn't unheard of to catch 100 or 150 fish between Dad, little brother and me. The big females had about a handful of eggs in each. We always ended up with a whole mess of them. Mom would take a spoonfull and batter them for deep frying. Dab a little yellow mustard on them, FANTASTIC.
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gar roe is sold as fish bait here in Florida. I have eaten gar a few times, we got them in a crystal clear spring fed run, not in the back waters or edge of lake ..it was good every time. I used to shoot Tilapia, you can eat them too.
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Ewww i don't want to eat gar meat,their eggs or their balls. lol.I will just have to go hungry but i appreciate the heads up in case times get tough.I never knew it.
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In one of his videos Fred Eichler shows how to fillet a gar that was bowfished in Florida. Ever since seeing that I've wanted to try it. I've never thought about eating any fish eggs though. Just think where they have been. Chicken eggs are ok .
Thanks for the info., some of us didn't know that!
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