Alligator gar help
Aug 27, 2019 17:55:01 #
Aug 27, 2019 19:48:20 #
My husband used a knife! we didn't have anything fancy with us on our camping trips but we managed!! We got the meat out of the gar and it was good eating at the campfire. I haven't used my iron skillet since he died. Haven't even been fishing.
Aug 27, 2019 19:52:06 #
fishrmans
Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl
Yes, a knife will work but their skin is really tough. The tin shears worked great and just made it a lot easier.
Aug 27, 2019 20:57:51 #
fishrmans wrote:
Yes, a knife will work but their skin is really tough. The tin shears worked great and just made it a lot easier.
Now I am gonna have to try it.
Thanks
Aug 27, 2019 21:16:52 #
fishrmans
Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl
Just cut around the head and then straight down the back. Peel the skin away using a knife if needed. Then cut right along the backbone down to the ribs and remove those fillets.
Aug 27, 2019 21:28:21 #
fishrmans wrote:
Just cut around the head and then straight down the back. Peel the skin away using a knife if needed. Then cut right along the backbone down to the ribs and remove those fillets.
Sounds good Thanks
Aug 28, 2019 10:23:14 #
FS Digest wrote:
Today I was fishing a small inlet connected to the little manatee river I normally catch ladyfish mangrove snapper and the occasional small catfish I was fishing 10 lb mono with gulp shrimp on a jig head and felt a big tug I set the hook and started reeling and what looked to be a decent sized gator gar jumped out of the water long story short he got off and I know I was out gunned I am wondering what gear/ bait I would need to reel this guy in thanks
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by williamhubbart
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by williamhubbart
I doubt that you are seeing Alligator Gar this far south--last I knew their habitat did not extend south of the Suwannee. You may be seeing large Florida Long-Nosed Gar. Having grown up on the Caloosahatchee, I recall many of them there. They would bite on any meat or fish wrapped in screen and floated behind a popping cork--
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