After the wires got chewed by the cow, last monday, then this happened:
Tuesday morn, I am repairing my wires, and don't really feel satisfied with the job until 11:00, on Tue. So, I send the kids fishing at around 8:00, and work till 11:00.
Here is Big Help's contribution to the supper table:
This is the jaw on big helps fish:
Then, of course, dad had to join the fun. 
I think I like fishing better than surveying.
We are still eating smoked gar sandwiches.
~ N
Now that is one fish I would not want to swim in the water with, Nate!! :-O
Good catch, though!! :good: Your boy looks just like you. 🙂 :angel:
You must be an alien, because my dad always told me people don't eat gar!
😀 😀 😀
I'm seriously thinking (no kidding) about a one-day-a-month in-service MANDATORY fishing day for all my hired help. It would be good comraderie for crew moral. And I'd enjoy it, too.
Gar is a trash fish. A lot like dining on cow hoof sandwiches. They do make for a lot of fun while fishing, though.
Mr Cow cow.... er... Mr Bull, er... bovine, you are a vegatarian, so I would expect no less!!
And, I have made more than one convert, after cooking gar!
:)~
N
This honestly sounds good to me.
Wrong Mr. Nate
I've eaten many a fish and frog. Those little rascals get sucked right up with the creek water. Try to spit out any worms and snakes. They wiggle and jigglele too much and tickle my innards. You're too young to remember when Mountain Dew was first bottled with the motto "It'll tickle yer innards".
Wrong Mr. Nate
OK OK, mr cow... no gettin all het up over it.
But, yer gots to remember, de economy is failing, and tis time to figger out how to eat, when doretos are 4 dollars a bag!
But, we like gar, so we skip dem chips an et dem fish!
🙂
N
smoked gar huh...
I have never tried gar. I really didn't know they were edible. I have eaten carp its pretty tasty. You have intrigued me I assume that you can fillet it like any other fish and place it on the smoker????? Do you leave the skin on and lay on the smoker skin side down???
Let me know
how about catfish?
I have never eaten a Gar, but with a mouth and teeth like that he must eat other fish? Seems like better flesh than a bottom feeder. The Orange Roughy was once know as the Slimehead fish, so they hired a marketing firm and changed his name and the rest is tasty history. 🙂
Holy,
Flounder is a bottom feeder. I enjoy a nice broiled flounder. I guess it depends on where the fish is caught (maybe). I never knew Gar was a trash fish. I've tried blues once....way too oily for me. But the blues don't quite have teeth like that Gar. ugghh.
> Gar is a trash fish.
One man's trash fish is another man's treasure fish.
I have heard Gar is good if you boil it and separate all the meat from the bones. Is it a real boney fish Natester?
All my life I was told gar is a "trash fish".
WRONG!
It cleans and tastes similar to dolphin, believe it or not.
Nice catch there Nate!
They are very good.
Hey Nate, maybe your kids would be interested in this found fossil specimen.
Well, here is what we do. Chop off the head, remove the entrails, (use a small sharp knife, and cut along the backbone, where everything is attached) Wash off, and add salt, or cajun spice, depending on your taste, and then lay it on it's back, in the coals of a hot coal bed, with a little ditch in it, to keep it laying on it's back.
next day, it does not taste as good, but you can then clean it all off the bones, and remove any grissle, and make sandwitches, just like salmon.
I gave some to the guy at the local saw shop, and he loved it, and was surprised to hear what it was.
Life is like that.
Nate
keep it laying on it's back.
next day, it does not taste as good
did i miss something leave it there all night?
