4-23-2015

[Feathers and Fins]

Murphy's Law If you go for 1 species you will catch everything else...

I went for walleye today but ended up catching just about everything else. 17 Bass, 21 stripers ( mostly shorts ) 11 Catfish including a 26lb flathead (dinner tomorrow ) and a 4ft plus Gar ( Dinner tonight ).

Key was wind swept point, wind was from the east so you wanted to set-up on the west side of the point in 8 to 14 ft. hit 22 and the rat stripers were all over you. 1/4oz head on a Keitech Swing impact accounted for the bass. Brooders for the cats and stripers fished dead slow just off the bottom.

[rps]

[Tanderson15]

That's a lot fish. Eating a 4 ft gar tonight and a 26 lb catfish the follow day. Must not have any sides with it.

[Feathers and Fins]

Hush Puppys Terry, Gotta have the puppies... Im doing the gar up like I use to cook shark

[Feathers and Fins]

This is Gar

I use to do a lot of shark fishing and just been waiting to try it on Gar.

Cut the Gar fillets in 3’’ wide chunks and place in a ziplock bag with 3 eggs, shake it up and let sit for 10 minutes rotating the bag after 5 minutes.

While its setting in the eggs place 2 cups of Texas Toast Crotons in a food processor and turn them to dust, add half a bag of Saltine Crackers and turn them to dust.

Place the Crotons and Saltines in a ziplock bag and add 2 cups of Bisquick pancake mix.

Pull the fish out of the mix and place in the other bag and shake well. Let stand while you heat the oil in a pot.

When the oil is hot drop in the Gar and let it brown, Place it on a trivet that is on a pan with aluminum foil under it.

Mix up 1/4cup hot sauce and 1 squeezed lemon and baste on the gar. Bake at 350 for 17 minutes with Biscuits and rebaste the gar when you take them out.

[JohnF52]

How big were the other catfish?

[Feathers and Fins]

2 to 5lbs

[Terrierman]

How do you clean the gar? Are they anything like pike but maybe a little tougher to fillet?

[Feathers and Fins]

Tin snips down the back, then just peeled off the armor and filleted out the meat. brought it in the house cleaned it up and filleted off the dark areas. easy easy

[Terrierman]

I have tin snips.