MuskieBait
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Two friends of mine, Dave and Mike, had never caught a Longnose Gar. So we planned a day to give it a shot. Our original date was last weekend. However, heavy rainfall just before the weekend blew out the river. So we delayed the trip until this Sunday.
Here are some pictures of our wonderful gars.
By mid-afternoon, each of us had landed at least 5 gars. All of us had a couple of gar came off the hook right by shore just as we were netting it.
By around 2:30pm, we ran out of minnows (we started with around 3 dozen). We decided to fish the other side of the river where I saw some Common Carp in the morning. However, the carp had left so we decided to fish some worms for whatever may bite.
There was no shortage of Smallmouth Bass. Since bass season was closed, the bass received a quick release without pics. I was catching smallies on the fly, with the minnows and on nightcrawlers. Many of them were 1-2lbs, with a few that were pushing 2.5-3lbs.
Surprisingly, I found a very ambitious Logperch that bit half a nightcrawler on a #8 hook!
Logperch
It was a fun day of not just gar fishing, and I'm especially happy my two friends had checked off the Longnose Gar from their wish list.
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But it was also a multi-species kind of day. In total, we caught:
Longnose Gar
Smallmouth Bass
Largemouth Bass
Rock Bass
Brown Bullhead
Pumpkinseed
Logperch
We saw hundreds of Common Carp on their spawning run.
Here are some pictures of our wonderful gars.
By mid-afternoon, each of us had landed at least 5 gars. All of us had a couple of gar came off the hook right by shore just as we were netting it.
By around 2:30pm, we ran out of minnows (we started with around 3 dozen). We decided to fish the other side of the river where I saw some Common Carp in the morning. However, the carp had left so we decided to fish some worms for whatever may bite.
There was no shortage of Smallmouth Bass. Since bass season was closed, the bass received a quick release without pics. I was catching smallies on the fly, with the minnows and on nightcrawlers. Many of them were 1-2lbs, with a few that were pushing 2.5-3lbs.
Surprisingly, I found a very ambitious Logperch that bit half a nightcrawler on a #8 hook!
Logperch
It was a fun day of not just gar fishing, and I'm especially happy my two friends had checked off the Longnose Gar from their wish list.
. But it was also a multi-species kind of day. In total, we caught:
Longnose Gar
Smallmouth Bass
Largemouth Bass
Rock Bass
Brown Bullhead
Pumpkinseed
Logperch
We saw hundreds of Common Carp on their spawning run.
