the TROPHY Alligator Gar! These fish are aptly named with their rows of sharp teeth and aggressive appetite. In this episode, we are back in the bayous of Louisiana in search of monsters. ![]() It’s destined to become a classic in outdoor literature.Fishing Planet #15 - S4 | Quanchkin Lake, Louisiana: TROPHY Alligator Gar! More importantly, it is an emotional essay about one man’s enthusiastic inquiry into the proper relationship between man and nature. Season of the Gar is the best compendium of gar information ever put together. By debunking myths about gar, he does for them what Barry Lopez and Rick Bass have done for wolves. “Bravo to Mark Spitzer! He dives headlong into the roiling, snake-infested realm of the gar and exposes ugly truths about the long campaign to rid the earth of these fearsome yet fascinating fishes. Andrei Codrescu, NPR commentator and author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess Don’t be surprised if this book starts a gar-craze!” This is a work of history, adventure, and philosophy, as suspenseful a tale as any fictional thriller, yet amazingly true and thought provoking. “The prehistoric gar, a fish sometimes mistaken for Nessie, has found its chronicler in Mark Spitzer. ![]() David Gessner, author of Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to parts of Africa and Asia. Thanks to this we can read Season of the Gar and have our lives lifted.” ![]() There is a wildness here-in both fish and man. Mark Spitzer had worked hard at his craft daily for twenty years and it shows in every sentence. Like the novelist and poet he is, Spitzer brings empathy, humor, and deep imagination to a type of writing usually mired in the merely factual. “I love Mark Spitzer’s passion and energy for gars and, just as important, for the pursuit of gars.
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