A few cats for the grease

[the Lackster]

Caught a mess of cats while we were camping. The bite was really good the first night and then tapered off a little. We still had fish over 20lbs daily. Lost one monster but the next best fish was 30 or so. We caught plenty for our fish fry at church last Friday and still put about 100lbs of meat in the freezer. The blue cats really showed out!

 

[the Lackster]

 

[Jamie]

please tell me you are not going to eat Gar too? Coons won't even eat them around here.

 

[the Lackster]

please tell me you are not going to eat Gar too? Coons won't even eat them around here.

Yes sir, we eat them all the time. Coons just can't get them open is all. Gar have beautiful boneless back straps that are very good. It frys up very similar to alligator tail.

 

[Jamie]

I’ve shot quite a lot of them with arrows and could never bring myself to bring one home. Never mind how polluted the creek where I bow fish is.

 

[the Lackster]

I’ve shot quite a lot of them with arrows and could never bring myself to bring one home. Never mind how polluted the creek where I bow fish is.

That's understandable for sure. These come out of a fairly clean water system. Water gets stains at times but its always moving down there.

 

[triple_duece]

Hammered the cats, awesome job and lots of fun and great eating.

 

[Buckmaster]

Gar is highly edible. White fish blackstrap.

 

[Dannmann801]

A hundred pounds of fish in the freezer? Frigging awesome!

 

[the Lackster]

A hundred pounds of fish in the freezer? Frigging awesome!

After we cooked a mess at the campground i brought home 122lbs of trimmed and ready to eat fillets. Cooked about 20lbs or so at church Friday night for our good Friday service. Still got a few fish fries in the freezer! We put back about half of what we caught.

 

[finelyshedded]

Thanks for sharing! What a HAUL!!!!