Took out my slingshot fishing rig tonight it was like shooting fish in a barrel took 5 gar shot 7 lost 2 to limbs had a good time.
Love the post. Rube Goldberg would have loved it and it works! I am looking forward to the day you put a stone in orbit. I love a whiff of sanity after the previous post on politics and liberal "people of importance" leaving the country. I have seen bow fishing rigs, but that was the first sling shot fishing rig I have ever seen. Thank you for the pleasant break on a cool rainy morning.
Any idea how things are now days with Mercury content in Gar. Years ago (early 70s) I used to bowfish them and we would cut them up into 2' or 2.5" fish steaks, skin on and boil them in salted crab boil seasoned water, then shuck the white meat out of the skin shells and serve them up with melted Butter seasoned with herbs, garlic, black pepper and lemon juice. Made an excellent and tasty poor mans mock lobster. Never got a complaint. However EPA came out with a warning about high Mercury content in gar, and we quit that. Mercury is cumulative in your body and can make you crazy (mad as a hatter!). Those looked like young gar and I thought with the passage of time etc maybe the warning had been lifted? Any idea or comment? BTW, good shooting!!!
excellent @Bishop. You are amazing with that slingshot. I have never seen a gar fish. Did you eat them?
I don't know I am shooting them from flooded swamp area that not attached to any rivers but they do eat the little fish that will put them with more in there body's like sharks.
Took two more today when I was taking my daughter to the orthodontist today I stopped by a covert and had some luck here is one of them.
Seems to me the mercury would vaporize out of the fish while cooking . The only caution being that , it is thoroughly cooked out side, and not in the house , which for some fish is a good idea any way.
Metallic Mercury certainly might vaporize during Cooking, it the Temps were high enough, HOWEVER, Metal Mercury isn't really the Issue, in Mercury in fish... It is Mercury Compounds like Methyl Mercury, that happen when the fish while alive. Ingest these Mercury compounds in their Food Sources, or Making Them, by Metabolizing them while alive....