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Longnose Gar

By User ImageJustin

Posted on July 20, 2007
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Longnose Gar

Longnose Gar
Longnose Gar (Lepisosteus osseus)
“THE FISH TO AVOID”

Range and Description:

The Gar is one of those rare fish that you don’t wanna see
dangling or fighting on the end of your line, unless your out for
an adventure! These long beaked fish look like something out of
prehistory but they are native to mainly large rivers and flowing
streams such as the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers’ and they’re
larger tributaries.

The Longnose Gar can be found in a similar range to its
cousins, the Alligator Gar, and Spotted Gar, which includes
nearly all of the southern and Midwestern States as well as the
West.
Identify:

Identifying this prehistoric looking monster fish is fairly
straight forward. The Longnose gar has a “Long Nose” funny huh?
But besides this long and narrow beak which contains many large
sharp teeth you also have a thin cylindrical type of fish. The
Longnose gar will usually be covered in sporadic diamond shape
scales. The color of the Longnose Gar range from an olive or
brownish black with a white under belly.

Identify Male / Female:
Physically identifying this fish is difficult because of a
shortened spawning season and little is known of sexing gars that
I know of, although generally females grow much larger and faster
and tend to live to an older age than males.

Weight / Size: 24-40 Inches and 1-7lbs - Occasionally 49
Inches and 25lbs

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One Response to “Longnose Gar”

  1. no imagedarrell (Who am I?) on July 23rd, 2007 8:41 pm
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    Believe it or not, my grandpa used to catch gar by just using the huge mess of line that is created when you strip the line from your fishing reel to replace it or after a tangle. A big tangled mess of line worked great. The gar would get his teeth caught in it. I never knew what would draw him to the tangle in the first place, though.

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