{"id":3618,"date":"2020-07-17T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2020-07-21T08:28:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:28:43","slug":"longnose-gar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/longnose-gar\/","title":{"rendered":"Longnose Gar, July 13, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2209\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/longnose-gar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2209\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/longnose-gar.jpg\" alt=\"Longnose Gar\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longnose Gar in Montrose Harbor (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Continuing the fish theme this summer, I saw and photographed a Longnose Gar in Montrose Harbor on July 13. Gar are distinctive as a group but specific identification can be challenging (and I&#8217;m hardly a fish expert). My gar was about 2 feet long and had heavy, dark spotting on the body. It was swimming slowly and close to the surface, enabling me to get diagnostic photos. After some research, I narrowed down the options to Spotted and Longnose Gar, and after sharing the photos online several fish experts weighed in and confirmed it as a Longnose Gar. This is the first gar of any kind I&#8217;ve seen on Lake Michigan and the most unusual fish I&#8217;ve seen at Montrose. More photos are on my Facebook page, URL below. Also, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/tag\/fish\/\">Fish Archives<\/a> on this blog for more fish stories from Montrose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robert.hughes.5621\/posts\/4683234685035758\">Montrose Harbor Longnose Gar Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next on the fish menu at Montrose? Musky? Sturgeon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the fish theme this summer, I saw and photographed a Longnose Gar in Montrose Harbor on July 13. Gar are distinctive as a group but specific identification can be challenging (and I&#8217;m hardly a fish expert). My gar was about 2 feet long and had heavy, dark spotting on the body. It was swimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[163,35],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-wildlife","tag-fish","tag-lake-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}