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A passionate fisher, Sptizer (writing, U. of Central Arkansas) offers a portrait of the fresh-water fish in the southern US that generalizes from his personal experience to reflect the larger relationship between humans and gar. He is not here to glorify the gar, he says, but to clear up misunderstandings and myths about it. He contends that it does not eat up all the other fish in the lake or river, and actually has an important ecological role. The book includes essays, folklore, articles, photographs, comic relief, flashes of science, recipes, reports of changing policy and regulation, and other elements, but no index. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Season of the Gar is a fang-infested, monster-headed, armor-plated romp through the prehistoric swamps and murky rivers of America’s most feared and demonized fish. Follow Mark Spitzer on his lengthy and often frustrating quest from Texas and Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas to catch his own gar. Read about his sometimes bizarre angling adventures in search of this air-breathing freshwater giant (up to ten feet in length and well over three hundred pounds) as he separates fact from fiction. Spitzer draws on folklore, science, history, his own pet gar, and even gar recipes to tell this unique and exciting literary eco-tale about a fish that has inspired imaginations for centuries, a fish many have hated, a fish many have thrown on the shore to die.
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