What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

kyhunt said:
Ok off the wall question. For smoking. Do you fillet, chunk them like steaks or smoke whole?
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I filleted the ones above 8 to 10 pounds.
WinMag775 said:
There's a lot of myths about carp. Growing up ppl would say you have to know how to clean them(because of a mud vein) and like you said about cooking them. Other than the US, It seems the rest of the world highly regard carp as a game fish.

Carp have no mud vein. What they do have are Y bones which act as a 2nd set of ribs. The same as a Pike or Musky. After their properly fileted and cooked, their meat is white, flaky and delicious!
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Considering they put up a better fight than a Large Mouth Bass, I am not surprised some consider them a game fish.

Ever try Gar? White, flaky meat, and not boney. Quite yummy. 😇👍
1 thing about gar though ... any cooked left over gar you put in the fridge for later, needs to be cooked again.
I had some left overs when I was in Missouri. The next afternoon (roughly 12 hours later) the fully cooked gar "steaks" I had were raw again. 🤯😳🤨
 
afishhunter said:
I filleted the ones above 8 to 10 pounds.

Considering they put up a better fight than a Large Mouth Bass, I am not surprised some consider them a game fish.

Ever try Gar? White, flaky meat, and not boney. Quite yummy. 😇👍
1 thing about gar though ... any cooked left over gar you put in the fridge for later, needs to be cooked again.
I had some left overs when I was in Missouri. The next afternoon (roughly 12 hours later) the fully cooked gar "steaks" I had were raw again. 🤯😳🤨
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Thanks👍
 
afishhunter said:
I filleted the ones above 8 to 10 pounds.

Considering they put up a better fight than a Large Mouth Bass, I am not surprised some consider them a game fish.

Ever try Gar? White, flaky meat, and not boney. Quite yummy. 😇👍
1 thing about gar though ... any cooked left over gar you put in the fridge for later, needs to be cooked again.
I had some left overs when I was in Missouri. The next afternoon (roughly 12 hours later) the fully cooked gar "steaks" I had were raw again. 🤯😳🤨
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Ive wanted to try gar for a long time and have never caught one big enough in clean water to try. The closest waterway to me that has sizable gar is the Ohio River, and it's not a very clean river. I did catch a 4ft gar while catfishing the Ohio a few years back. It swallowed the hook and was dead if I cut the line. After it bit the crap out of my hand trying to retrieve the hook, I shot it and got my 3 dollar hook back.

Its been a good week to fish below the spillway. I went out again for an hour at dark and caught a 30lb Buffalo😲. It was like battling a Prius on light tackle!
 

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WinMag775 said:
Ive wanted to try gar for a long time and have never caught one big enough in clean water to try. The closest waterway to me that has sizable gar is the Ohio River, and it's not a very clean river. I did catch a 4ft gar while catfishing the Ohio a few years back. It swallowed the hook and was dead if I cut the line. After it bit the crap out of my hand trying to retrieve the hook, I shot it and got my 3 dollar hook back.

Its been a good week to fish below the spillway. I went out again for an hour at dark and caught a 30lb Buffalo😲. It was like battling a Prius on light tackle!
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That looks like a freshwater drum to me. Definitely not a gar.

The three flavors of gar; Alligator; Long Nose; Short Nose:
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The Alligator gar gets the largest, The current world record is 327 pounds (100 inch long with 47 inch girth.)

The Biggest Alligator Gar Ever Caught | Field & Stream

Alligator gar can measure more than 8 feet long and weigh over 300 pounds. Here are some of the biggest ever caught
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Makes you question swimming in the lakes and rivers they call "home". I don't know how far north the Alligator Gar goes in the Mississippi River, or if it is in the Missouri, Illinois or Ohio River. I know the long nose and short nose are as far north as Minneapolis, MN, and are in the all tributaries.
When young, I swam in a couple slews of the Mississippi River.
(not "wise" to swim in the main river due to the current and undercurrents where I was.)

The current record long nose gar has reached 55 pounds and 60 inches, but was not submitted for NFGA record status. I think it was snagged in a net
Current IFGA records: https://igfa.org/member-services/world-record/common-name/Gar, longnose

The current short nose gar record was caught bow fishing in the Lake of The Ozarks, in MO.
www.koamnewsnow.com

World Record-setting Shortnose Gar caught in Lake of the Ozarks

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates Rich Porter of Omaha, Nebraska for becoming the new state record holder under alternative methods for shortnose gar.
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If you're interested, I remember reading in one of the fishing magazines when in high school, that the best bait for short nose gar is a 6 to 10 inch hank of brightly colored yarn. No hook necessary.
The yarn gets stuck in their teeth and wrapped around the snout.
Not sure if the yarn trick works on the larger long nose and Alligator flavors.
 
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