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OK how brave are ya'll? I saw this recipe on another forum. Maybe you garfishermen might give it a try. Let us know how it is.

GAR BALLS

Deboned gar meat free of gelatinous tissue
Boiled potatoes (pound for pound of gar meat)
Green onion tops,finely chopped 1/2 cup
1lb of corn flour,not corn meal
Crawdad boil,such as Zatarans
Add no other seasonings as the boil will add the seasonings

Wrap gar meat in cheesecloth,and boil exactly as you would crabs or crawfish.This renders the gar meat snow white and tastes like lump white crab meat.Combine the gar meat,shallots,and potatoes.Mash this mixture together until you are able to form patties.Dip firm patties in egg/milk mixture then dredge in corn flour.Deep fry at 350
 
Last weekend I was at Eufaula for a Georgia Outdoor Writers Association meeting. Saturday afternoon I took Wm. Hovie Smith out to try to shoot some gar and carp. You may have seen some of his articles and books - one is on bowfishing.

Anyway, he shot a small gar and showed me how to clean it. He cut off the dorsal fin and cut a slit in the back just behind it, then used tin snips to split it open from there to the head. He then cut out the "backstraps" out with a sharp knife.

Last night I cut them in to two inch pieces and sauteed them in butter, then added some lemon juice. Not bad, actually little flavor at all. They were kinda tough, noticed that when cutting them up. I liked them better with some Crazy Jack seafood dip on them. They had a little bit of a musky taste but no fish taste at all. More like lobster to me than anything else. Not bad eatin.
 
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