I bought a 19 lb alligator garfish roast from a commercial fisherman. I processed it and cooked some tonight. As good as it gets. If you haven’t had it, it’s texture is nothing like catfish. It’s like tender alligator or chicken. I cooked some naked (no batter) and some in an egg wash

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that looks some kind good ! You fry in veggie or peanut? Also what you using for fish fry ?

Looks some good.

Either or.

Tonight it’s vegetable oil

It looks good, is it a dry fish? Here our commercial fisherman raise the fish in buildings.

Best I can describe alligator gar is like tender chicken, alligator, or heaven of course. It’s so good

I love alligator

looks good!

Alligator is good.

It looks a good bit like gator and gator is good.

Have to release alligator gar here but I have never seen one. Have long nose gar. They are good. Don't get a chunk of meat like that one though.

Are they full of bones like the long nose and short nose.

Eat it while it's hot.

Looking awesome Aix! All white meat, no red on those filets!

Alligator gars get large enough to cut roasts. The spine and ribs form a 3 point star. Alligator gar get large enough that you can easily fillet slabs off of the roasts.


36” ones will give you enough meat to cook. A 60”+ one will give you enough meat to invite everyone over plus put some in the freezer. A 72” one will provide a LOT of meat. A LOT.

The ones you mentioned would probably be the same, if you can get them big enough

Looks Great

long nose gar are NOT full of bones. take a hatchet or corn knife and give one a whack right behind the head to get a cut in their hide. use a pair of tin snips and cut the hide all the way down the top of the back. Yes you need tin snips. Then using a knife start in the cut and skin down the side. there is a strip of whit meat on each side you cut out like taking the backstrap from a deer. it is white meat, boneless, a lot of it, and very good.

do NOT eat gar eggs. I have been told repeatedly the eggs are poisonous

looks great

I'm ready

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we grind them and make patties out of the meat. It is very good.