I am going to eat one next i catch one...anybody tried them????

i tried one years ago. caught a gar during a camping trip. Someone decided to cook it on top of the open fire. After 1hr of trying to cut thru the leather skin, we finally got to the meat where we were faced with a billion splinterlike bones. Took a taste of the meat and it tasted like a cat's a@ss

maybe i wont try one after all... There are some web links that make them sound like good eats...

its up to the person eating it. I know a few people who would eat gizzard shad over crappie. I'm sure if you cook the gar right it should taste fine. Its cleaning the darn thing thats a pain.

i caught one a few year back, my guess would be 8 to 10lb. I give it to my neighbor, she end up filleting the fish and she said it was good eating. but then again she think drum and carp are really good eating too. so i dont know

I hope that you are speaking from rumors instead of first hand experience about how a cat's a$$ taste......

Drum are good...I had a 100+ pound gar hooked on a few weeks ago...next time it will get filleted...no more hanky my wanky...the gurgle needs food!

hehe. i could only imagine.

hahha, to be honest i dont eat much fish unless is like a group of friends get together and hang out then i eat a bake striper or salmon other than that i wont touch a fish by myself. but i tasted a drum and it feel like i am eating plastic with a fishy smell. but then again i dont eat that much fish to enjoy it. one person fish might be another person fillet minoin

Longnose gar are good, alligator gar-not so much. Once you chop the head off said gar with a hatchet or axe, cut down the belly with a sharp knife and then skin the gar out of it's "shell". Once removed form it's armor, there are two long strips of meat running along the backbone. Remove these backstraps, as this is what you want to eat, and throw the rest away. Wrap them in foil with wishbone Italian dressing, butter, lemon juice, chopped onions, peppers and a few strips of bacon. Cook it on the grill until the meat is done. It has the consistency of chicken breast, unlike most other fish.

why do you think its called "Ca Doo" hence "Doo ma"

hahha now i finnally understand when i saw a group of vietnamese fishing at denison wall a few year back cussing Du Ma when they caught a big azz drum and thought they hook up a giant striper

the web link i looked at dressed it different...chop the head off...and use wire cutter snips to cut down back strips and fillet the meat strips out after that..

http://www.bowfishingmadness.com/Gar-Cleaning.html

yes sir the back straps are what you looking for

"Gar backstraps" huh? Sounds so yummy!!