The big ones are nearly all gone, I saw a show on it recently where they hunted and deliberately killed them off like you would varmits, kind of a shame cause they’re a great American fish.
they’re a great American fish.
Aren’t they just as boney as eel?
They were considered trash fish where we use to fish in Kansas.
Has anyone eaten one?
What, no libs out there trying to get the bayou made into a preservation buffer, or U.N. Biosphere Reserve?
About 40 years ago I was down in the Everglades outside of Homestead. I pulled over at a road side stop for a break. There was a family there at a picnic table next to a canal. They had a kid, I'd guess around 10 years old who was fishing in the canal and pulling Gar out one after the other.
With each one, his Mother would say "Give him a headache Johnny" and the kid would whack the fish in the head with a ball bean hammer, throw it back into the weeds and go back to catch another. It was kind of funny to watch, and yes, they did consider the Gar to be varmints.