Gar Cooking

[Rossbow]

I know alot of people dont like eating gar but if you ask me its as good as any other fish. I usually fry it up but my question is how do yall cook it?

[Dave aka Regulator]

My grandmother Used to Pickle it for us when we were kids. Wed go down to the creek with a cheep zebco and no hooks..

Now your sittin there wondering how we cought gar with no hooks on nothing but line.........

Well we would take some of the yellow polly rope and vut a chunk about two feet long. Tie a note in it and unravel it. It would look kind of like a humongous fly once we tied it to the line. LOL!

It actually worked. We cast out over any gar we seen from the bank and jig it past em, It was always cool to watch the gar strike and start rolling with it till it was all tangled up in our line the we would real em in.

The things you come up with when your a kid. Ill post a recipie for the pickled gar when I get it from Granny.

[hardhead34]

We fillet it out season it up with your favirote seasoning and batter it up and fry it im with you it is as good or better than most fish just takes a little longer to clean it thats all.

[Fishin' Soldier]

Don't wash it with water. Eat it hot.

[catchysumfishy]

Feed it to inlaws!

[Bill Fisher]

gar balls

[mikey01]

fried... its like a chicken nugget!

[johnmyjohn]

I've eaten gar balls and they were spicy good. Some of my buddies that have webbed feet said gator gar is for the balls and needle or the spotted gar is for the batter. When I was in my 20's when I didn't know better I caught a 6+ fter and decided to take advantage of all that pretty flesh. So I hulled that big boy out and took a big fillet to work to treat the boys to some serious eats. I spiced it up and threw it in the oven thinking it was going to come out looking like some loin on tv and everybody was going to fight over who was going to take home the leftovers. About 10 minutes into the cooking I was coming back to the control room and the kitchen area where everybody was bailing out with a not so pleased look on their faces. I could smell it with the door closed, I thought I made a mistake and threw a shovel of Trinity river bottom in that oven. It took a few days to get the smell out, I'm not a gar cooker and leave that fish for the professionals.

[muddnasty]

my dad loves them

[southtxfisherman]

Last year I shot a small 4ft gar. It was my first and had a bit of trouble cleaning it, but got the hang of it pretty quick. I fried it up just like any other fish, tasted pretty good if you ask me.

[saintsfan]

best way that I found is to take the "backstraps" and create steaks. From there put them in on of those baskets for cooking fish on a pit. Seasont he meat with blackend redfish seasoning and continuosly baste with melted butter and garlic salt while you grill it on the pit.