SRS -

Personally, I find salmon far too bony (and oily) to be worth the effort. Common carp has the same bones, but tastes better. Of course, others do differ, probably because they don't know how to cook a carp.

We do have gar in local streams and ponds, and they are caught occasionally, usually by accident. Our F&G guys consider them "trash" fish, because they have a tendency to eat all those high priced "gamefish" that they spend so much time and money stocking into our waters; but I'll agree that they should be respected - if only for having survived almost as long as cockroaches.

It does rouse my curiosity as to what the "bullhead" was that you were catching, but apparently that's not to be divined now. In common usage, a bullhead is a catfish. Apparently yours were something else. I'll accept your testimony as to your fathers cooking (and fishing) skills - never meant to criticize, only to ask.

John