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[jcoberley]

Nice pic.

Hey,

I hear tell gar tender loin is very tasty! Was told to scoop it out like making mellon balls and fry them up. I was going to try it but I couldn't get my knife to cut the skin!

[RiverRunner]

I've caught hundreds of gar, and yes, the meat is good, almost like lobster. The problem is cutting through their skin, which is almost like armor. If you can ever get a hole punched in the skin, you can take tin snips and cut it. The hard part is getting a hole punched. You might try a drill. That was a great picture to say the least.

[Kayser]

I have found that fish arrows make very nice holes in the skin.

Rob

[JobyKSU]

I've caught hundreds of gar, and yes, the meat is good, almost like lobster. The problem is cutting through their skin, which is almost like armor. If you can ever get a hole punched in the skin, you can take tin snips and cut it. The hard part is getting a hole punched. You might try a drill. That was a great picture to say the least.

The meat can be fantastic. Trivia fact for the day: much of the imitation crab meat that you can buy is actually gar flavored with crab juice.

Mmmmm, gar.