04-14-2002, 01:56 PM
Regarding eating gar fish. I was raised in Texas and Texans considered gar a trash fish, to be left on the banks to die. I still think that way because after 50 years of wetting a line, I still haven't figured out a way to cook them so they are edible. Besides, a gar yanked my favorite rod off the bank and it is somewhere on the Brazos River bottom.<br> Of course in Texas, a 3 footer would be considered a baby. I have witnessed gar's as long as seven feet long and weighing 300 lbs being pulled out of the water. Those teeth would do my ex-mother-in-law justice.<br> I don't think Colorado is graced with those fish, just too cold for them. However, we do have a Tiger muskie population but the "teeth of the month" award goes to our Walleye, especially the 14 lb'er that an certain, unnamed angler decided to stick his thumb in its mouth to remove the hook. The walleye turned that thumb into mincemeat in short order after developing lockjaw. I may not be the smartest angler in the country but I know enough to keep fingers away from a hungry walleye, of any size.<br> I'm off to Spinney Mountain Reservoir on Monday, (west of Colorado Springs), it has offcially opened for business and ready to give up some of its muskie and humongous trout. Both of which will tear a reel apart in short order.<br> I'll keep you informed, John in Colorado.<br><br>