HE'S BAAACK....After not haveing seen the white gar photoed in my thread from last summer, since last fall--HE'S BACK..........I think...Yes there is a white gar back in the same area that I had seen it in last summer and fall but Im not sure its the same fish. It looks shorter and more importantly much slimmer. I know fish cant shrink but it might be the same fish just skinnier. Also its snout looks longer and thinner proportionally and its fins dont have the big paddle-like shape and movements. I just spotted him again yesterday after occasionally haveing gone down to look for him since the water got lower. I have gone at least once a month this year when the weather alowed, sometimes every other month when it did not. I saw no sign of it/him/her during the winter/spring when the water was "clearer" but I also saw no gars surfaceing then--and actually saw very few gar at all. During the winter deluges the water level in the area was well over ten feet deeper than usual and I assumed I'd never see the fish again. What is the likelyhood that there are more than one? This is a relatively closed population but I cant see how this fish could be the same and smaller than the first (it did swim directly next to a derelect tire and was only slightly longer than the diameter of the tire but this was a smaller than regular tire--I'd guestimate at 24" dia. its like a doughnut tire--Im going to drag it out too and measure it--maybe I can get another swim-by as Moby is not hard to manipulate ). I did not have my camera with me this time because I had largely decided I would never see him again and I was really just there to walk my dogs with an excuse. I will try take pictures this week and hopefully will post them before I go on vacation at the 23 of July--if not then, there after, Aug 1st. We'll compare the photos from last summer to this one....it might be the same fish just skinnier.

Since it's the same fish and topic, I've lumped the threads together

Slightly off topic but here is a picture of an odd colored groundhog I caught in Febuary of 2005.
Mutations can occur.
Keith

How do you cook those?

It looks high in cholesterol, which is why i am not supposed to eat squirrel or nutria.

How do you cook those?

It looks high in cholesterol, which is why i am not supposed to eat squirrel or nutria.

You cook groundhog in a pressure cooker. Outside, if you still want to have an appetite when it's done cooking.

You cook groundhog in a pressure cooker. Outside, if you still want to have an appetite when it's done cooking.

When I was 16, I shot my first groundhog and carried it home. My grandfather wanted to know what I was going to do with it? Well, I replied that I'd eat it of course.

Let me conclusively say that boiled groundhog is not for the faint of heart. Even the dog wouldn't eat it.

Dean

Back to fish please...