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Posted 14 July 2010 - 02:35 PM

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.

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Posted 14 July 2010 - 03:12 PM

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

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 03:37 PM





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.

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 05:24 PM

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.

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Posted 16 July 2010 - 01:23 PM

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

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Posted 16 July 2010 - 02:08 PM

Back to fish please...



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