Cooking and eating Gar

Longnose gar may not be the first fish you put on the dinner table, but not because of lack of flavor. This rough fish, while it is labor-intensive to clean, is rather delicious. Fresh from a fishing trip on Kentucky River, our host, Tim Farmer, joins colleague Rick Hill in the kitchen where the prize is in the prep.

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• kentucky
• afield
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• gar
• fishing
• bow

[flurbsmcgurgs]

450 degres outside!

[dookiekong007]

chicken popcorn

[wedger9]

nathan agrees..

[eddiej97]

He was coming right at us...

[TheInheritedBasher]

This really increases my confidence in collecting gar, my grandfather has always told me they aren't anything in comparison to pike or bass. I caught a carp last year and ate it for the first time. I made my own seasoning which was spicy as hell, but overall I actually enjoy the fishes stronger flavor. I will definitely keep the gar in mind this year and keep one to try it, although I always finish a fish off, regardless of taste. Too much money spent not to eat it all.

[TheInheritedBasher]

@sonicvstrex It's alligator gar, short an long nose are rather plentiful in all of their native range.

[sonicvstrex]

is it long nose gar or aligator gar thats endangdered

[ankazakov]

@Jewelball looks like a regular cast iron pan, not supposed to scrub or use soap on them, wipe it down and call it a day. Cooks WAY better then the "non-stick" Teflon crap though

[whatho85]

Had some gar and it was deep fried. The meat was dry and very mile in flavor. Reminds me of kingfish. White and meaty. Next time I'll probably try it prepared another way though.

[lukrativ0922]

Gar is definitely good to eat, if anything, it does not have enough of a fish taste. I only shoot gar that are 3 ft + due to the low yield of meat. I do think I am going to try to make jerky out of it next year. The consistentcy of the meat lends itself to quality jerky. Has a more salmon like texture, kind of like a spoonbill. Next, I want to see them try to eat a grinnel.

[TJ41238]

tim said merry christmas at the end

[levi501ish]

I live in south Texas and have been eating it since I was a child. To me it tastes like chicken mixed with fish. Try some lemon or lime on it fried, with a tall glass of Sweet tea or beer....mmmm, good eating man.