Found on a Florida canal Bank. I didn't see any hook or rope, how and why would a gar end up on a bank? Does not look like animals are feasting on it either.
Posted by nonam35
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sasabomish on
Someone likely caught it on accident, unhooked, then threw it on the bank to let it die.
RCEMEGUY289 on
Someone caught it and tossed it onto the bank.
aigeneratedname1234 on
They get stranded during high water a lot.
They also get tossed on the bank by fisherman a lot.
IamREBELoe on
People will catch these and throw them on the bank as ‘trash fish’ to get them out of the water.
Tbf they’ll decimate a game fish population. But still
Carp_Catcher on
I had a Florida gar in a tank, I came home to it having jumped out and shriveled up on the ground. I was bummed, but I decided to rinse it under running water to clean it and bury it with dignity (was a pet so I just felt obligated). I felt it BARELY flex as I was rinsing it, within an hour of putting it back in the tank with that 1 percent hope, it was alive and eating again like nothing happened.
Doubt it with this one posted, but I’ll always remember that Gar. Ended up passing it on to a local with an indoor swimming pool converted to a pond.
Icy-State5549 on
People will throw fish they don’t like on the bank because they don’t like them, think there are two many of them, or whatever. The real reason is that they are assholes and they don’t how to find the fish they are after.
Gar have really tough armor. They are really, really hard to fillet, even with a sharp knife. It takes a meat cleaver to do it right. My guess about it not being eaten at is that most birds and other small critters have a hard time breaking their flesh open, too.
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Someone likely caught it on accident, unhooked, then threw it on the bank to let it die.
Someone caught it and tossed it onto the bank.
They get stranded during high water a lot.
They also get tossed on the bank by fisherman a lot.
People will catch these and throw them on the bank as ‘trash fish’ to get them out of the water.
Tbf they’ll decimate a game fish population. But still
I had a Florida gar in a tank, I came home to it having jumped out and shriveled up on the ground. I was bummed, but I decided to rinse it under running water to clean it and bury it with dignity (was a pet so I just felt obligated). I felt it BARELY flex as I was rinsing it, within an hour of putting it back in the tank with that 1 percent hope, it was alive and eating again like nothing happened.
Doubt it with this one posted, but I’ll always remember that Gar. Ended up passing it on to a local with an indoor swimming pool converted to a pond.
People will throw fish they don’t like on the bank because they don’t like them, think there are two many of them, or whatever. The real reason is that they are assholes and they don’t how to find the fish they are after.
Gar have really tough armor. They are really, really hard to fillet, even with a sharp knife. It takes a meat cleaver to do it right. My guess about it not being eaten at is that most birds and other small critters have a hard time breaking their flesh open, too.