Barge Gars

amelia · 08-30-2005, 06:41 PM

I went to the river for the first time in about six months today to get some photos.. I ended up photographing butterflies and a frog, contrary to the landscaping I had planned to take pictures of..

The river has been very, very low. I ran into a barge that was standing at least 15 feet high and had five or six others connected to it. I was looking around at the water, in awe of how close the barges were to the shore (only 1 foot, in some places less...) and I noticed some black and yellow stripes in the water. Upon closer observation, I noticed seven or eight gars all together under the nose of this barge.. Two got close enough for me to take pictures of, and I'm having those pictures developed tomorrow. I'll post pictures when I get them.

It's a totally random subject, but I just thought it was really cool that these gars let me get so close and that they were just hovering under this barge..

mlefev · 08-30-2005, 06:47 PM

That is pretty cool. The only thing that will get close to people around here are pidgeons..lol.

**Baby_Baby** · 08-30-2005, 07:03 PM

ha ha ha. over here in OK people feed buffalos with their hands.......

amelia · 08-30-2005, 07:18 PM

:P Well, I thought it was pretty cool. I LOVE gars.. I've only ever been that close two other times in my life--Once I was fishing and just tossed in a line with a sinker and caught a gar on the sinker, and the other time the river had flooded and the floodgates were opened, letting water from a drainage branch to the ditches. There were 3-5 foot gars swimming right next to me.. Amazing fish, really.

**Baby_Baby** · 08-30-2005, 07:22 PM

whats a gar?

**fish_doc** · 08-30-2005, 07:45 PM

a gar is a long narrow fish with a mouth like a little crock. http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...F-8&fr=slv1-fp

**Baby_Baby** · 08-30-2005, 07:46 PM

oh sweetness!

fishboy · 08-30-2005, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby_Baby

oh sweetness!

thats one way to describe it buti'm going to go with...cool

fishfreaks · 08-30-2005, 08:25 PM

wow, that's pretty sweet! can't wait to see your pics. I wish I had the chance to see a gar from the wild instead of in my fish tank!

**Baby_Baby** · 08-30-2005, 08:26 PM

aw cool!!!!!! i want a gar! i'd name it garfield

amelia · 08-30-2005, 08:54 PM

-chuckles- they get HUGE, so you'd have to be saving up for a 1000gal+ tank, or a pond. That's funny from me.. "She who keep koi in aquarium.." XD

But yeah, they're kick-butt. It's too bad that so many people hate them around here.

They'd kill the bigger ones, and the smaller ones too if they found them or caught them fishing.

**Baby_Baby** · 08-31-2005, 08:04 AM

awwww how sad! those jerkos! lol but ya I think it would be cool to have like a gar aquarium

solar-ton · 08-31-2005, 09:07 AM

wow i guess animal rights laws dont cover gars...CURSE YOU BUSH!!!!!* shakes fist*

**Baby_Baby** · 08-31-2005, 09:26 AM

Bush has absolutely nothing to do with this.....................................

solar-ton · 08-31-2005, 09:41 AM

lol i know.but people shouldnt kill them there isnt any point in doing it

**fish_doc** · 08-31-2005, 02:37 PM

Actually there is a point, They eat other native species that the fisherman enjoy catching. It dosen't mean the point is a good one just that there was one.

amelia · 08-31-2005, 03:10 PM

I do agree with fish_doc. If you've seen how big those fish can get, you'd see why they are such a menace to the fishermen. 1) Who wants to catch a huge, 5' gar when you're fishing for bass. 2) Who wants to let that huge gar go so it can eat the bass that you're trying to catch.

Hm.. I think I want to go down and catch one of those gars.. And keep it as a.. "pet" until it gets bigger. maybe I could dig a little pond for it in the backyard and keep it there..

shev · 08-31-2005, 03:42 PM

lol. bush has nothing to do with it. in fact, and I quote:

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I Know The HumanBeing And Fish Can Coexist Peacefully

**Cichlid Man** · 08-31-2005, 04:24 PM

My gar eating tuna

Same one

A different one

These gars are very easy to keep and I have never had any problems with them. Even when one jumped out of the tank for 24 hours and I found him crisp dry, when I put him back, after about 20 minutes he reabsorbed the water and got his flexibility back. Amazing huh?

fishfreaks · 09-01-2005, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by amelia

1) Who wants to catch a huge, 5' gar when you're fishing for bass. 2) Who wants to let that huge gar go so it can eat the bass that you're trying to catch.

I DO I DO!!!! That is pretty amazing CichlidMan! I'll have to try that next time I find a jumper

08-30-2005, 06:41 PM	#1
amelia the ami Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: missouri Age: 19 Posts: 270	Barge Gars I went to the river for the first time in about six months today to get some photos.. I ended up photographing butterflies and a frog, contrary to the landscaping I had planned to take pictures of.. The river has been very, very low. I ran into a barge that was standing at least 15 feet high and had five or six others connected to it. I was looking around at the water, in awe of how close the barges were to the shore (only 1 foot, in some places less...) and I noticed some black and yellow stripes in the water. Upon closer observation, I noticed seven or eight gars all together under the nose of this barge.. Two got close enough for me to take pictures of, and I'm having those pictures developed tomorrow. I'll post pictures when I get them. It's a totally random subject, but I just thought it was really cool that these gars let me get so close and that they were just hovering under this barge..

08-30-2005, 07:03 PM	#3
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	ha ha ha. over here in OK people feed buffalos with their hands....... __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

08-30-2005, 07:22 PM	#5
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	whats a gar? __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

08-30-2005, 07:45 PM	#6
fish_doc Advisor to Neptune (Mod) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Illinois Age: 40 Posts: 3,881 Blog Entries: 14	a gar is a long narrow fish with a mouth like a little crock. http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...F-8&fr=slv1-fp __________________ Dave (fish_doc) A World of fish

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08-30-2005, 06:47 PM	#2
mlefev Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: California Age: 26 Posts: 817	That is pretty cool. The only thing that will get close to people around here are pidgeons..lol.

08-30-2005, 07:18 PM	#4
amelia the ami Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: missouri Age: 19 Posts: 270	:P Well, I thought it was pretty cool. I LOVE gars.. I've only ever been that close two other times in my life--Once I was fishing and just tossed in a line with a sinker and caught a gar on the sinker, and the other time the river had flooded and the floodgates were opened, letting water from a drainage branch to the ditches. There were 3-5 foot gars swimming right next to me.. Amazing fish, really.

08-30-2005, 08:25 PM	#9
fishfreaks M&F Couple Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: PA Age: 21 Posts: 4,276	wow, that's pretty sweet! can't wait to see your pics. I wish I had the chance to see a gar from the wild instead of in my fish tank! __________________ VOTE FOR FISH FORUMS

08-30-2005, 08:26 PM	#10
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	aw cool!!!!!! i want a gar! i'd name it garfield __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

08-30-2005, 08:54 PM	#11
amelia the ami Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: missouri Age: 19 Posts: 270	-chuckles- they get HUGE, so you'd have to be saving up for a 1000gal+ tank, or a pond. That's funny from me.. "She who keep koi in aquarium.." XD But yeah, they're kick-butt. It's too bad that so many people hate them around here. They'd kill the bigger ones, and the smaller ones too if they found them or caught them fishing.

08-31-2005, 08:04 AM	#12
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	awwww how sad! those jerkos! lol but ya I think it would be cool to have like a gar aquarium __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

08-31-2005, 09:07 AM	#13
solar-ton guardian of the sea Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: a tree Age: 16 Posts: 670	wow i guess animal rights laws dont cover gars...CURSE YOU BUSH!!!!!* shakes fist* __________________ minimum oscar tank size: 75 gallon for 2 a 125 goldfish can cause hith diesease! so dont feed them goldfish as a staple diet!

08-31-2005, 09:26 AM	#14
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	Bush has absolutely nothing to do with this..................................... __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

08-31-2005, 09:41 AM	#15
solar-ton guardian of the sea Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: a tree Age: 16 Posts: 670	lol i know.but people shouldnt kill them there isnt any point in doing it __________________ minimum oscar tank size: 75 gallon for 2 a 125 goldfish can cause hith diesease! so dont feed them goldfish as a staple diet!

08-31-2005, 02:37 PM	#16
fish_doc Advisor to Neptune (Mod) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Illinois Age: 40 Posts: 3,881 Blog Entries: 14	Actually there is a point, They eat other native species that the fisherman enjoy catching. It dosen't mean the point is a good one just that there was one. __________________ Dave (fish_doc) A World of fish

08-31-2005, 03:10 PM	#17
amelia the ami Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: missouri Age: 19 Posts: 270	I do agree with fish_doc. If you've seen how big those fish can get, you'd see why they are such a menace to the fishermen. 1) Who wants to catch a huge, 5' gar when you're fishing for bass. 2) Who wants to let that huge gar go so it can eat the bass that you're trying to catch. Hm.. I think I want to go down and catch one of those gars.. And keep it as a.. "pet" until it gets bigger. maybe I could dig a little pond for it in the backyard and keep it there..

08-31-2005, 04:24 PM	#19
Cichlid Man Super moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,093	My gars My gar eating tuna Same one A different one These gars are very easy to keep and I have never had any problems with them. Even when one jumped out of the tank for 24 hours and I found him crisp dry, when I put him back, after about 20 minutes he reabsorbed the water and got his flexibility back. Amazing huh? __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.

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