We’ve had a lot of fish here over the years, different kinds of trout, salmon, large and smallmouth bass, stripers, shad…but we’ve never had a gar. Until today.

Here’s Kevin Kosar, by day an analyst but more importantly the Mayor of Fish Porn again, with a gar he caught last weekend in the shadow of the Washington and Jefferson monuments in downtown D.C. It’s a dinosaur-like fish, and while some people eat them the roe is apparently toxic – or so I’ve been told – so do your research first. Most people I know catch gars as a by-catch while targeting other species, and that’s apparently what happened here.

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