New One on me
I was harrassing blue Gills, LMB, and Rock Bass with a black crystal flash wooly bugger when I added a Gar to my list of hooked fish. Never caught one , never seen one. What a unique fish. Great day fishing until I got motion sick in my belly boat from the power boats, skiers, and Jet skis.
Not new to me. I would rather not hook those nasty toothy rough fish. Pickerels also. I use pliers or forceps usually to remove the hook while holding the leader without touching the toothy critter if the Gar doesn't shake off before I get it in. I wouldn't want those teeth buried in my hand.
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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
"Flip a fly"
Robert B. McCorquodale
"Flip a fly"
They're supposed to be great fighters. Here's the hookless lure a local guy uses to target gar:
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I have seen him on local outdoor shows using this hookless lure (he was using spinning tackle, but there's a fly rod version also.)
It was amazing how well the nylon fibres held the gar. There was no way the fish was getting loose.
Dang, thanks a lot. Last weekend got my carp fever stirred up for the summer, and now you have to get me needing a gar fix too! Now. . . where to go, where to go. . .
Suppoesdly gar bites get infected easily. I'm not sure if they are any worse than other fish with teeth, but it pays to use forceps or pliers when unhooking toothy fish.
Nice catch though. They're supposed to be fairly hard to fool. Did you figure out what species it was?
Warmouth
Gar are really cool fly rod fish. One of my goals is to be able to catch them consistently. I found a river pool last summer with a good population and I went out quite a few evenings and caught some. They are good fighters and good jumpers. I love fish that jump. They make me feel, well, "primitive".
Robert, they jump? When I was younger we would bait fish for bass. Long nosed gar were always stripping the minnows, and we quite often would hook them. I don't remember ever seeing one jump. Our river didn't have any alligator gar, so I have no experience with them. Which type were you encountering?
Jim
Oh goodness yes they jump. . . wow. Y'all are getting my heart rate up lol
Jim,
Yes they are good jumpers. They'll tail walk on you too. They're a cool fish. I'm no gar expert and I'm not sure exactly what "flavor" these are around here but I do know they are not alligator gar. May be long nosed or needle nosed gar because I've heard those 2 terms used a lot in this neighborhood. I guess if I weren't so lazy or had more computer skills I'd do a search and find out. All I know is they live in the rivers around here and they've got some black on their tail and some spots.
Yeah they jump like crazy!!!! Spotted gar anyway. Alligator gar don't jump as much but they jump once in a while. They are pretty rare in most parts of the country but we have them here in TX.
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