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How To Clean a Gar Cleaning a gar isn't hard and it's well worth the effort. The only tricks are to have the right tools, a good attitude and a bit of patience.  The first thing is to get a hole started in the armor like shell of the gar. You can use a hatchet to chop across the head or tail to get a hole started. If you don't have a hatchet you can just start snipping from the arrow hole. Use a pair of tin snips to cut down the center of the back of the gar. then make a 'relief' cut down each side of the gar. (this helps when you peel the skin back) It will seem difficult at first, but after a gar or two, you'll get the hang of it.    The fillets of a gar are two boneless strips on either side of the backbone. They are much like the backstraps of a deer. Removing them is a simple matter of slicing down along the backbone and then across the tops of the ribs.  
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