I live in Alabama, and I have always been kinda obsessed with gar. I like to go to river and just watch them! I understand that it's probably strange to some, but I just love them!
In Illinois where I live there is a river by me and longnose gar always spawn in this one spot and small males will rise up and down in he water then a big female will come up and a bunch of males will get close to her and go up and down. It’s very strange to watch. I hate that people think they are invasive and damage the ecosystem, they’ve been in the north american waters forever, they predate the glacial period so they are older than most natural bodies of water in the U.S
Angryangler Dude Yeah, I thought I was watching a nature/conservation documentary until I saw them beating these giant fish with hammers. Talk about an invasive species: HUMANS, lol.
they tend to not survive in non running waters as resiliently as in the wild ... there'd be a big ,unhealthy & unhappy gar ,alone in a big , lifeless pond because it ate everything else that was in there w it & it'll stay alive until shit dries up...
They’re awesome sport fish (in my opinion) , my wife used to make jewelry from their scales. I kept a few baby’s in an aquarium for years. And yes, they’re delicious.
I always liked the Gar fish they need to be left alone poeple just want to kill everything untill there's nothing left except a dead planet that's where this world is heading🐺
Last weekend when I went kayaking with my family I saw one floating a few feet below the surface waiting for prey to come by and do a surprise attack. It saw my kayak an went under water, I was scared but it didn't do anything and I didn't do anything.
I hate it how people see something beautiful and the first thing on their mind is kill it to take a picture with it. I hate any kind of trophy hunting.
@@ivanandmeli5116 I do too but it scared me more than anything and I was just on a floating trip. When my family hunts we use all the meat we can and dont do trophy hunting
@@augustingervasio3269 Yeah but I didnt have anything to catch it with plus I was scared of it because I didnt do any research on it. But it's a really cool fish
It seems gars are a fish that has been underestimated as food. Also the scales are useful for jewerly or cutting up stuff. And over and over, they repeat, gar do not eat all the game fish. Mr. Crabs does that.🦀🦀🦀🦂🦂🦂🦀🦂🦂🦂🦂🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
@@natashasemrau3670 I understand but I think the reason I have to do it as it's too dangerous to try to tape their mouth. Plus I think their plans for those fish were to see what they feed on. So they'd have to gut them anyhow. I used to be a commercial fisherman but I had to quit cuz I got attached to animals too quickly :P
@@jaydoe647 Alligator gars are also known to actually kill and eat muskrats, waterfowl, small turtles, pike, and yes, even young American alligators too. They are supreme opportunists.
Yeah, I originally had something closer to the theme used for Jaws...dun...dun...dun, dun, dun, dun....you get the point. Chances of someone getting injured by an alligator gar in the boat is much higher than any shark attack - and yeah...I've been exposed to both. Dun...dun...dun...done. 🤣
Don’t kill the gator gar just for the sake of killing them. Eat it or release it. Those big ones that are 150+ lbs are 30-60 years old. We shouldn’t wipe them out. They’re a helluva sport fish actually.
Awesome video, really came in handy for my fisheries class! I absolutely love these old videos about wildlife, I think it's the use of orchestra that always sticks out.
Never mind that Gar have a specific role within specific eco-systems....but i'll tell ya this....individuals that have no empathy for animals & exhibit cruel & callous behaviour will, in certain situations, treat humans the same.
Hi, Zeph - watch the aquarium curator's segment again - start @2:14 - he explains the evolution of primitive fishes which would include their adaptation to environmental factors as well.
Absolutely - and it wasn't that long ago. Things have changed somewhat over the past decade or so, and people have become more aware of conservation and the environment because of the early efforts by wildlife & environmental activists, and programs like this one, if I may toot my own horn a little bit. When we're losing ancestral species that have been around longer than humankind, it sends a very loud message that something needs to change and change quickly. Our message was urgent, and I'm very pleased to say that people took action.
The gar kill to eat, hate to see them being abused like that, they behave more like animals than the actual animals! And besides why do they call them trash fish, they taste way better than other fish
It amazes me that people cant understand "balance". It applies to everything. If there is no balance one thing or the other will take over. 3rd grade science
That's a shame. I've eaten gar and it's been pretty good mostly. Depending on your cleaning technique and you're cooking technique. I would buy it at the store along with catfish fillets
What? No cornfish pie? They surely were very popular in the days of corn and garfish pies!! And they are still popular with me!! Easy eating! Just don't dangle your foot or fingers over the sides of a canoe or rowboat. Snapping turtles also inhabit the same areas as the garfishes.
See hakaimagazine.com/features/fish-feel-pain-now-what Further research into "stress-induced analgesia" may be at play here as well, especially if it's an instantaneous death blow - no pain is felt on impact.
Bro why stab the friendly giants they don't even attack humans. Honestly kinda triggered... Bro sinks their boats man, killed my mood. Nevermind actually using the fish. Were duchebags for breaking it's jaw. Man need to get of it's high horse, need to man a season before it is too late.
These types of programs are what contributed to saving this species. They were once considered trash fish. Of course, you don't want these fish overpopulating a lake or reservoir because it will destroy the balance of the ecosystem. Gars live a long time and are pretty close to being invincible with that suit of armor. It makes good sense for natural resource agencies to allow legal harvests of fish that are consumed by people and properly utilized as a natural resource, while also maintaining the balance of the ecosystem. It's not like what happens in China (Chinese paddlefish now extinct) or throughout Europe where entire species have been eliminated because of over harvest, poaching, and human encroachment. Watch Sturgeon: Ancient Survivors, and The Paddlefish: An American Treasure.
Predator all the way. The trout in Montana are on their own. I caught 2 gars on Kentucky lake with a gizzard shad red eye shad lure. Released them both to eat carp.
Being from the north I would love to go down south and catch one, take a couple pictures and let it go. I however don't know what I would do with one so catch and release would be how I would want to go. I also don't know how one goes about getting the hook out without hurting the fish so I would need to go with someone who had caught gar before.
You can catch them without using hooks, by rope type lures. The hook itself is usually easy to get out, it's just making sure not to have them bite down while you have your hand between.
We have toothy fish up here but none with teeth or jaws that size if catch a musky or pike I have a jaw spreader to help so I don't get bit but with the looks of the jaws on this fish I don't think it would workout to well.
@@andrewd8481 lol yea, we don't in the freshwater as much. The pickerels, which are basically a cousin of the piles. These have long teeth, even the smaller ones still could go fairly deep. Just like any though, have to pay attention and be careful but it's not bad.
Terrible. A bunch of grown men couldn't catch fish so so they took them from their home and slaughtered them. Isn't that what settlers did to Native of this same land? Since we're at it let's get rid of all the trees too
News flash: The Indians stole that land from other Indians, and those Indians stole it from the Indians who were there before them. That's human nature. They also had neat customs like human sacrifice, cannibalism, and dying from appendicitis or measles. Those wise, noble, peaceful American Indians generally lived in a state of constant genocidal warfare with other tribes. You need to get over your Indian fetish.
Don't mean to correct you but they are fish not fishes LoL 😂I caught 4'gar in mill dam,I've never keep them I let them go,and the are a predator! You can't eat them there to boney!
No problem, Hawk eye. It gives me an opportunity to explain why the plural is used so you don't make that same mistake in the future. The term “fishes” refers to different species of fish. There is more than one species of gar so we say garfishes, which is correct . gar·fish /ˈɡärˌfiSH/ noun plural noun: garfishes
So if the Gar fish have remained unchanged for millions of years - being native to shallow waters where it would be subject to the same pressures and environmental changes that land animals have been subject to over such a long period of time, then evolutionary theories have a huge hole in them.
Ooooo...an Agenda.....now you've made me out to be a spy. How glam! Well, can you explain why the Alligator Gar and all of the other species that "evolution forgot", were exempt from adapting to major climatic events and did not seem to have the need to evolve? I mean , if you say that someone is wrong, then you must have the proof to prove you are right.
I'm not labeling you as glamorous, I'm calling you out as either ignorant, or as intentionally twisting facts that have previously been explained to you. Evolution didn't "forget" any species, to say that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the process on your part. Evolution is the label we use for changes that become apparent in species over many generations, as random genetic changes react to external pressures . The external forces that affect some species don't affect others in the same way or at the same rate. The alligator gar is changing, slowly, it will not remain "unchanged" for the rest of time. The Theory of Evolution is an accepted fact, it is well documented. Reading more than the one book you seem to be basing your viewpoint on might benefit you.
"Evolution is the label we use for changes that become apparent in species over many generations". Thanks, but there aren't any such changes in these animals ...at all. The theory of evolution is accepted by some people who do not yet understand the way the universe operates, and is rejected totally or at least in part by people who look past what we have been told is the truth of our origins and the origins of species and have the ability to examine facts which though inconvenient, are facts nonetheless. The Coelocanth, which is, as you possibly know, hundreds of millions of years old seems to ignore your establishment theory, which is not proven, merely hypothesized about - while the proponents of evolution turn a blind eye to anything which upsets the apple cart as it were. The human race is billions of years old, and did not evolve from an aquatic ape or primate or hominid. When you show me a "missing link", then I may consider the validity of a pro-evolutionary hypothesis. Have you ever read anything other than an establishment-approved Darwinist textbook on the matter? Surely one cannot be so bombastic and self-righteous about any particular thing without having done a good deal of comparative study first.
What was I thinking? Arguing with a zealot is pointless. You are not "woke", you are not making decisions based on data we aren't capable of understanding, you are not basing your opinions on some special enlightened perspective. The "establishment" you refer to is actually "the consensus of the scientific community". You are an idiot, please understand that I have formed this opinion after listening to your arguments, and critically analyzing your viewpoint, and that I mean the insult in the most intellectually demeaning way possible. Understand that I'm no longer writing to you directly, as that would be pointless. I'm instead speaking to anybody reading this argument after the fact. THIS GUY IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO TELL US ALL THAT: ("Scientific Consensus of the Modern World") is accepted by some people who do not yet understand the way the universe operates, and is rejected ... by people who look past what we have been told ...and have the ability to examine facts."
These fish did not evolve over millions of years they where created by the Creator of all life about 7000 years ago. Modern DNA bankrupts the theory of evolution. These creatures where wonderfully and beautifully made.
Absolutely correct! The only ones that don't believe Gods creation are ignorant in the fact that the proof is literally everywhere and in everything... not to mention every single civilization all over the world ALL talk about the one creator.
@@shaners1226 Very well said. You're correct also almost ever known civilization and people have a story of the flood account whether it be written drawn our oral. They all tell of having beings from heaven coming down and interacting with men. I think many people are willingly ignorant to things considering creation others are others in certain fields are afraid to loose their jobs or funding and be call stupid if they speak up or go against the paradigm of the set "scientism" beliefs. True science proves a Creator and that what is told in the Word about creation is truth.
