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[Pocahontas]

Originally Posted by Al Swearengen

Nah, I'm pretty familiar with gar. Even caught a few back in the day. No, "grenel", from what I remember, were medium sized (about the size of your average channel cat) fresh water fish that are extremely ugly. Bottom feeders I believe. They're dark brownish grey to black in color, and supposedly not very palatable.

I believe it is spelled grenal and yes the black folks do enjoy them!
They also might be the same thing as a grenadier from the little I could find from google.