Gar

Gar balls are the only thing to do with one of those monsters. Find somebody that REALLY has some experience with these before you go hacking into one.

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Fried Gar Balls

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The only way I've heard of people eating gar. and they were all 'democrats', fwiw

i actually like garfish balls, browned, then cooked down in a seasoned brown gravy, and served over rice.

Damn that fish is probably knocking on 70 yrs as well.

Very good if done properly.

Oh, and any hole full of gar is a shooting hole, not a fishing one.

Nastiest smelling fish out there to me. Watched lots of commercial fisherman clean these with machetes. Those fisherman were the worst smelling people I have ever come across.

Garfish is more of a central to northern Louisiana fish. Most people on the coast don't eat them. Too many other choices to have to settle on gar.

Name: Gar Balls
Description:
Ingredients: Deboned gar meat free of gelatinous tissue.
boiled potatoes. ( pound for pound of gar meat )
green onion tops, finely chopped. 1/2 cup/
1lb. corn flour, not corn meal or white flour
Crawfish boil. Premixed type such as Zatarans.
Add no other seasoning as the crawfish boil will supply the seasoning.
Use the real spicy suggestions in the instructions.
Directions: wrap gar meat in cheese cloth and boil exactly as you would crabs or crawfish. This renders the gar meat snow white and taste like lump white crab meat. Combine the gar meat,shallots, and potatoes. Mash this mixture until you are able to form patties. Dip firm patties in egg/milk mixture then dredge in corn flour. Deep fry at 350 for approx. 8-10 minutes. Serve with cold beer !
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Created By: Capt. Bill Griffith

I always get them when throwing the net for shrimp. Slimy and stinky. Some people eat them, but I've never tried them.