Record Longnose Gar
May 2, 2021 16:43:25 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
RuffplayOR57 wrote:
Able, You made me think about something my Uncles use to do. I don’t remember the fish they used but do remember had quite a few bones. My Uncles cut, seasoned, smoked and canned them. I remember them serving it kinda like a cracker spread, and it was good, the canning made all the bones very very soft and you could not even tell you were eating them right along with the meat.
It 1/2-way seems like someone else, had made mention of preparing some kind of fish into a kind of "a spread" (within the past year)... To where the bones, although they were still IN there; it just didn't matter. ¿Ring a bell/ anybody? {Maybe that was a "pickled fish recipe".}
May 2, 2021 17:08:00 #
May 3, 2021 13:20:49 #
hacksaw wrote:
Gar Balls are good too Able Man. It’s just not worth the effort in killing one of them. They’re scales are like sheet metal. Like I wrote, I tried to kill one with an axe and gave up. A guy at work fried up some Gar-balls and another brought some Grinnell patties. Both were good, but I got hooked on trying to catch those Grinnell. I haven’t thought about that in years. I don’t know if I could land one now. They get really big.
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had a big grinnel on up in Lake fork a few years ago
got him up in front of the boat
and I looked at him and he looked at me
and then just dove and swam away finally got my line twisted in a stump and broke off
musta been at least 4 feet long
mean critter
May 3, 2021 15:47:23 #
we used to catch them when I lived in Northern Indiana. Very good to eat. They'll tear your equipment up! We used wire leaders and #4 hooks and 15 lb. mono for them. They're one of the "fightingest fish in fresh water" and outdo most of the salt water ones, too!
May 3, 2021 16:54:17 #
jarijenkins wrote:
we used to catch them when I lived in Northern Indiana. Very good to eat. They'll tear your equipment up! We used wire leaders and #4 hooks and 15 lb. mono for them. They're one of the "fightingest fish in fresh water" and outdo most of the salt water ones, too!
I couldn’t have said it better.👍
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