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Tilapia
stickbender:
Wow! :o Those are nice ones. We have them like that down here also. When I was a little kid, in the all Florida Magazine, it showed divers in the Kissimee river getting Aligator Gars like that. They get quite large. Have you taken any scales off of them?
They look just like arrow heads, and are extremely hard! In fact, I was once told that the Indians used them just for that purpose.
You have quite a lot of Gar steaks there. 8)
Wayne
hawkbow:
Pete I am working all over Texas near Corpus right now went hunting gar with Sky arrow last week near Port Lavaca got my first with a longbow
mullet:
Where I live in Lakeland, Florida we have Tilapia everywhere there is water. We can cast net them, snatch them, trap them and gig and bow shoot them. It is still common to get some in the five pound range.
I've never seen them floating till the temperature gets down in the low 30's or upper 20's. Then you can walk or wade and dip net them. They will be swimming on the surface, very lethargic.
You can catch them on a hook like you do mullet by chumming with chicken scratch feed and then use a small brim hook with a small piece of live worm or plastic rubber worm .
sticknstring:
We have gotten the gar scales and dried them. They are hard and very sharp, but not too wide maybe 1" . They make great necklaces and stuff.
I haven't put one on the end of an arrow yet.
chasing crow:
Man you folks sure seem to have a good time! Life is good!
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