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The man I worked with was from Cameron La. and he liked to mix them with Gar to make Gar Balls. You'll need a small-bladed, sharp knife to get them.  I told my coworker all the gar I have seen were females because I never seen no balls.
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I caught more than a few grinnell out of the St Johns River in Florida while bass fishing. Never kept one because I never let one into the boat with me. Every one of the damn things seemed to snap viciously at me with that mouth-full of knives they carry. If I couldn't get at the hook with pliers, I cut the rig off. I'd rather have an angry wolverine in my sleeping bag than a grinnell in my boat.
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us Cajuns do eat choupique, we clean them with a spoon and make choupique patties (mixed with eggs and bread crumbs) and we eat gar fish too, gar fish roast or patties/balls.
my Grandma used to want all the gaspagoo (fresh water drum) we would catch too
Cajuns eat anything that don't eat us first :-)
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I caught one'o them things in an oxbow lake in far western Kentucky several years ago,...a fair sized one. I'd say it went 2 lbs or so. I had no idea what it was. I was holding my rod tip up and had it at the edge of the water studying it.
There was this guy fishing a little ways down from me so I said, "Come look at this. You know what it is?"
He walks over,...looks at it and says, "I thank it's a Base".
I was like, "Base?,..you mean a Bass? Get da fug outta here. I don't know what this thing is, but it ain't no 'Base'".
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us Cajuns do eat choupique, we clean them with a spoon and make choupique patties (mixed with eggs and bread crumbs) and we eat gar fish too, gar fish roast or patties/balls.
my Grandma used to want all the gaspagoo (fresh water drum) we would catch too
Cajuns eat anything that don't eat us first :-) 'cept, sea gulls!    (Goo aint that bad, ate it several times)
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Simoneaud my friend, when you have access to unlimited sac-a-lait, crawfish, and 437 kinds of Boudain, why in HELL would you eat choupique or gaspargoo?
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why in HELL would you eat choupique or gaspargoo? A neighbor a myself was crappie fishing one day and I caught a pretty good sized drum. Normally I just throw them back, but for some reason I put this one on the stringer and filleted it right along with the crappie. Next day that neighbor was at my house when the wife was cooking the fish, and so he was invited and ate with us. I gave him one of the drum fillets, and told him what it was. After eating it, his statement was, "I'll tell you one thing, we ain't throwing any more of them back." miles
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Damn! Gaspers are good!!!!
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Years ago, about this time of the year, grinnel fishing was always good on one of the local creeks. Buy yourself the biggest spinner bait you could find (yellow skirt was my favorite), spool the old reel with 20# line and hit the creek.
One day I decided to give the grinnel a try and stopped on the bridge to 'test the waters'. I caught a couple and left them on the bridge. Now to put in a boat, you had to go about 50 yds down in the woods and you couldnt see the bridge.
As I was unloading the boat, I heard a truck coming down the gravel road and when he drove onto the bridge, the boards going clappity-clap, clappity-clap. Then the brakes squealing and a door opening. Next I heard a childs voice saying, "Yeah papa, they's alive".
So I called out, "You can have them".
It was quiet for a minute, then a man called out, "Yous got anymore".
"Naw not yet", I answered.
"Ifins you catch anymore, jests leave them on the bridge".
I left him 4 more.
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Mudfish as we call them down here are fun to catch but I've never been hungry enough to try eating one. Once I had a kid ask me if they were good eating. My answer..."depends on how hungry you are." We have a ton of snakeheads down here too and I had a friend cook one of those up on the grill. Not actually too bad, but if you eat enough fish out of the canals down here you start to glow at night. Good times
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TFF......should have given that devil fish to the dog!
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When I was a kid, we used to catch a lot of freshwater drum or white perch and they weren't bad if they were big enough so you could find the bones. They are awfully boney, but they tasted ok.
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Damn! Gaspers are good!!!! Gaspers are good. They have to be pretty fair sized to get a decent fillet as they are pretty thin. Also, people who know how to dress and cut the buffalo to have meat with out the little bones can fry it in cornmeal and it tastes as good as catfish.
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If you take freshwater drum in the spring out of cold water, fillet them and cut the meat into strips,throw them into crab boil and chill on ice it's like lobster strips. Once the water warms up they are full of little black worms
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Bet that looks real appetizing.
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Once the water warms up they are full of little black worms Crappie get wormy sometimes too. I suspect all kinds of fish do at one time or another. miles
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Once the water warms up they are full of little black worms Crappie get wormy sometimes too. I suspect all kinds of fish do at one time or another. miles I think all scale fish get them in the summer. I have seen worms in bass, crappie and saugeye when cleaning them in the summer but not in catfish.
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