Gar Fishing Fun

[Wizard]

Besides the fact that fried gar balls are tasty, they are a fun fish to catch. Here is an easy and fun way to catch gar when the bass aren't biting.
Find a shallow area in the back of a cove or in an oxbow that has gar swimming around looking for food.
Take a 1 ft. long piece of bright colored polypropelene rope and unravel about 4 in. on each end.
Leave the unraveled rope snarly and tie your line directly to the center of the line.
Cast the rope to the gar. The bright rope will slowly sink like a senko.
When the gar attacks the rope, it will get it's teeth caught in the snarly ends of the rope.
Have fun with the gar and when it gets close to the boat, cut the line and tie on another rope.
Alligator Gar can grow up to 10 ft. long and weight several hundred pounds.
Gar ball recipe
Cut some strips of meat from the gar and run them through a meat grinder. Mix it in a bowl with red and green onions, garlic and bread crumbs. Make it into whatever size balls you like and deep fry it until medium golden brown. It is very good and a Louisiana favorite if you add cajun spices.

[Smallie_Stalker]

Besides the fact that fried gar balls are tasty, they are a fun fish to catch.

I know there is a joke in there, but I ain't gonna go there.   

Seriously though, thanks for sharing the catching tips and the recipe Wizard. Got to see if I can buy some gar around here to try it out. The recipe sounds like it would be great with lots of other types of fish too. 

[coldfront]

gar have been known to jump when on the end of the line.

[bassadict69]

I just may have to try that recipe...

[TWilson]

I hope nobody thinks this in new....I've known this for years. Just can't get said gar to bite said rope.

[Wizard]

This works when you see several gar in the shallow area. You may have to throw and retrieve several times but when one gar gets interested, all get interested. They will compete for food  but must be hungry. Gar are always hungry. People don't eat gar because they are so bony. Lots of small bones everywhere. The meat along the sides have fewer but all gar meat is edible. That is the reason for the meat grinder. It cuts up the bones into such small pieces that they dissolve during the frying. I tink some of you folks would have starved in my area when the plants closed for strike or rebuild. My family fished, hunted , trapped, whatever was needed to put meat in the pot.