Longnose gar, pretty good size and a good fight. Some people say they are good eating.
Not for us, we threw it back.
Posted on 08/29/2022 9:41:09 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Emerald ash borer.
Chestnut blight.
Dutch elms disease.
Asian longhorn beatle.
The list goes on...
zebra mussels and Asian carp
. - .
Lantern flies.
Not to mention Wuhan Flu
Catch ‘em all the time on Guadalupe river near Tivoli TX.
I clean and eat anything between 3’ and 6’.
It is like a solid blackstrap. Cut into 1” steaks, roll in mustard, marinade over night then roll into fresh ground coarse corn meal after salt, pepper and garlic. It is a coarse meat fish like ling.
But I never eat the eggs like the zipper heads do.
Sure it wasn’t needle-nose gar? I have fished for them in the Brazos, as well. Took a Sawzall and ran it down the back, pulled out the backstraps and sautéed them in butter. Tastes like lobster.
Good.
***Normally found in North and Central America and believed to have entered China through the exotic pet trade,****
Payback for all those exotic Asian jumping carp and swamp eels and other weird fish they have dropped in American lakes.
When I was a kid, my brother tried to catch one in a pond we used for skating in winter. He said they would strike a lure, but he couldn’t set a hook in their mouth. He made a lure with thin metal loops to snag on their teeth. I forget whether that worked.
Emerald ash borer.
Chestnut blight.
Dutch elms disease.
Asian longhorn beatle.
The list goes on...
zebra mussels and Asian carp
. - .
Lantern flies.
What obnoxious and destructive pest do we have to share with them? Gypsy moths?
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