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How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 12:10 PM
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 01:07 PM
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MBradford
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Only watched about 15 seconds. I have found that the best way to clean a gar is to throw it back in the water.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 01:29 PM
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Gringocazador
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The best way to cook Gar is to wrap in foil with butter lime and a piece of green Mesquite wood. Cook for 1 hrs, unwrap, throw the Gar way and eat teh green mesquite wood!!!
Thanks, Billy
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 01:30 PM
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Ranch Dawg
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THE ROAD GOES ON FOREVER AND THE PARTY NEVER ENDS.
F##K YOU JOE BIDEN !!!!!
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 01:32 PM
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Espy
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I’ve ate gar before but didn’t clean it. I could of clean several fish before he cleaned his gar.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 01:41 PM
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Poppa
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Ive cleaned gar with tin snips. Cut out that purty white meat and battered & fried. Was like eating battered and fried cotton balls!
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 03:41 PM
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68rustbucket
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I heard of people using a skil saw on a gar.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 06:09 PM
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skinnerback
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A sharp hatchet, a hammer, and a filet knife works well.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 07:06 PM
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redchevy
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I have cleaned a few. They are not my favorite, but they are certainly edible as well.
I cut the head off with a hatchet and run down the back with a pair of game shears, then get after it with a fillet knife. It can be done pretty darn fast, very little to get in your way once you have gotten through the armor.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 07:38 PM
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angus1956
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I'm out, better fish in the lake to eat, crappie, bluegill, channel cats and blue cats.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/22/21 09:57 PM
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Thisisbeer
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I feel like a few of you guys haven't actually eaten gar, but someone told you they're trash to eat. Gar isn't bad at all.
It's just not worth the effort to get the meat.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 12:07 AM
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NORML as can be
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TFF would love this, Got one on Bass?
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 12:17 AM
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bill oxner
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TFF would love this, Got one on Bass? Bass is easy.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 01:17 AM
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Heck, I thought this was gonna say "Snip a couple fins off, to make it easier for the gators to catch them!!" They are all over where we red fish, and some of those dinosaurs are 100++ pounds
Beer and whiskey, 'cause you can't drink bacon!!
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 01:40 AM
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Heck, I thought this was gonna say "Snip a couple fins off, to make it easier for the gators to catch them!!" They are all over where we red fish, and some of those dinosaurs are 100++ pounds Yep. Lots of folks don't realize just how many huge Alligator Gar there are around here, in the salt. Many a times I've been out wade fishing and one (or a few) huge ones surfaced right there next to me, just checking me out...and I do mean huge LOL. Was wade fishing St Charles Bay not long ago and hooked a few, of course breaking them off (wasn't gar fishing) so called it quits and waded back to the truck. Ol' boy had just parked right in front of me and threw a line out from the beach. Before I had my stuff put away he landed a 6' Alligator Gar. He didn't want it, but I didn't feel like cleaning one that day either so was released. People kept stopping in awe of what just came out of the water LOL. There are TONS of them out there. They are not by any means on the verge of extinction like some hippies on the TFF want you to believe.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 03:19 AM
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We catch and clean the two to three footers and boil the meat in crab boil and dip in butter. The texture and flavor of the meat really reminds of monkfish. I wouldn't knock it till you try it.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 04:25 AM
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A band saw and a good Dexter works great....steak'em out thick
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 12:16 PM
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I had to fast forward through most of it. As mentioned above to much work for that meat. Like anything else if you know how to cook it right it will probably be pretty good
“I never forget a face—but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.” —Groucho Marx
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 02:06 PM
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I tried to clean one and gave up, now just catch and release. Needlenose are a blast on topwater spooks. Have caught a few 5 footer alligator gar by the house, they put up a great fight.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 04:57 PM
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Pass I'll stick with Channel Cat and Crappie.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/23/21 05:56 PM
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Lets just say that I didn't put it on my shopping list.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/24/21 12:41 AM
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Lets just say that I didn't put it on my shopping list. Haha
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/24/21 06:19 PM
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Caught a ton of them, never tried to clean one.
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Re: How to Clean a Gar with Tin Snips
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01/25/21 01:01 AM
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Had a neighbor that would take all the gar and carp that you could catch. Never watched her process for cleaning, but she could make some great fried carp and gar patties.
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