Garfish

[Outsider1]

How do you clean and kill garfish? Just like normal fish? How do you cook them? Whole?

Have a look at this link, answers your questions;

http://www.frdc.com.au/species.php?f=54&v=f

Cheers

Dave

[Little grey men]

I'm another one for the old bread crumbs for burley and little prawn pieces under a pencil float. We catch snub nose gar in North Pine Dam...well my little boy catches them while I chase bass. Big blue back ones in there, thousands of them.
I stand waist deep in the water out there and the gar come right up to you when you bring your bass lures back in. They'll even have a go at big lures but the trebles are too big to hook them.
I've seen quite a few blokes fishing for them to use as jack bait in the river afterwards.

[Jimbo73]

I could of filled a esky with gar one day last year at pumping jetty if i wanted just using a bait jig small pieces of bread squashed on each hook or sometimes just nothing on hooks at all.pulling up 3 or 4 nearly every drop and they werent small ones either. cheers jamie

[trueblue]

I used to catch bucket loads of them in a drag net off a beach.

have not done that for years - should do it again!

cheers

Mick

[tunaticer]

In North Pine Dam try fly fishing for them with almost any small dry fly for trout. I waded around last winter for about an hour and brought home about 20 good sized gars for dinner.

Jack.