Hunting & Fishing GAR!!!

[HonkeyMcGee88]

So this summer I got hooked on gar fishing and went out several times over the summer. Seemed like every time I went I would catch one a little bigger than the time before. We'll I decided to go out one more time before it got cold down here(not a fan of cold 20 min boat rides), and before hunting season got much farther underway. Well it was a slow morning but I finally hooked up this bad boy, my best catch to date, 6ft on the dot. Barely managed to get it up for a few seconds to take a pic of just myself holding it, the picture doesn't quite to it justice.

 

[AKA-Spook]

That is friggen Cool !
Do you think there's a way to lure them to the surface so they could be shot? Baby ducks perhaps ?

 

[Break Bad]

Monster! Grats! What kind of fight did it put up?

 

[HonkeyMcGee88]

Put up a pretty good fight. Didnt time it but I think it took 5-10min to tire it out.

These things come roll on the surface all the time and some people do bow fish them. It actually looked like this one had been hit with a few shotgun pellets. Nothing penetrated its scales though.

 

[Adam B]

if I could catch a fish like that I would go fishing more

 

[Papagallos]

You need to finish the Rio Grande, Honkey. There is a good chance you'll easily top that 6 footer.

 

[McLarenross]

Nice gar man! I watched a guy under the dam at Lake Livingston pull up a shovel nose that was every bit of 10 feet. He was standing on top of a 2 story floating platform holding the head and the tail was still in the water. They are fun fish to catch thats for sure.

 

[xs hedspace]

What a monster! Are they edible?

 

[qkieler]

I wouldn't but some people do. Nice fish tho we hunt them with bows when the river floods

 

[HonkeyMcGee88]

PG normally when I'm in the valley it's not for fishing and this creek is only half an hour from the house.

hedspace a lot of people consider them trash fish but they are very good eating. They have a texture and taste somewhat like chicken. The smaller ones are better eating though.

 

[piglatinhater]

Gar is a dream of mine. Sooooo sweet! Congrats!!

 

[mdesign]

That would be fun to catch....congratulations.

 

[Rocky 1\508]

thats awsome!,Id have to have it stuffed,and hang that badboy on the wall!

 

[HonkeyMcGee88]

I did cut the head off and its sitting in an ant bed right now. Not sure how it will come out though. The g34 put some hurting on his head before I brought it on the boat.

 

[DirtyDave]

I would love to bowfish for gar. We only have carp here in CA

 

[hornet shooter]

That's a nice one! I have stuck a few with the bow but not that big. My buddy guides on Amistad and caught the new lake record this year it was a beast I cannot remember the exact size but I think it was around 8'. I saw one in Port Lavaca one night trout fishing that would eat that 6 footer I never new they lived in salt water too.

 

[Killshot44]

Man, that reminds me of vacationing on Lake of the Ozarks (Mo) and seeing those damned things jump completely out of the water while we were waterskiing.

We stayed at a resort on the lake that had fishing piers jutting out into the lake with a lighted end. Well the lights attracted the bugs, which attracted the Mallard ducks and on the 2nd night there, a Gar came up and gobbled a full-grown male duck.

Chomp, quack, bubbles.

'bout crapped my 13yrd-old pants.

Suffice to say, we made the waterski pickups in the boat really quick after that. Was summer of '77.

 

[LegioX]

Holy crap Honkey!! That makes our pike look like minnows.
Congrats on an awesome kill!