greenfiend
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going to try to catch some longnose possibly alligator gar this week live near the white river anybody ever catch gar how did you set up your rod
fishing for gar
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i usually catch garfish each summer, great little fish to catch and not a bad feed either, but there are a lot of different types of garfish and im not familiar with alligator gar (im in Australia) so maybe my advice wont be of much use. I catch these sorts:
For those i find a slow retrieve of the float after casting works well, often they race each other to the bait. And dont forget BERLEY which garfish go bananas for - tuna oil and bread work perfectly.
For the rig i use a small float followed by 1 to 2 feet of tracer line then a berley cage, more tracer and then a small-medium suicide hook on the end. You'd be best to get local advice as to what bait to use.
btw garfish generally get a bit timid if the water is choppy, i usually have better luck on the calmer days
good luck
For those i find a slow retrieve of the float after casting works well, often they race each other to the bait. And dont forget BERLEY which garfish go bananas for - tuna oil and bread work perfectly.
For the rig i use a small float followed by 1 to 2 feet of tracer line then a berley cage, more tracer and then a small-medium suicide hook on the end. You'd be best to get local advice as to what bait to use.
btw garfish generally get a bit timid if the water is choppy, i usually have better luck on the calmer days
good luck
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aligator gar
Gar seem like a wicked cool fish!
damn! ok thats definately not the garfish i catch off my local beach here then 
Probably best to ignore all my advice from my first post
Probably best to ignore all my advice from my first post
dood, it's just a GARFISH lol ..... if you're talking about fish fighting then ok - who would win in a fight, one of your sharks or a shark off the Australian coast? ...B4O2N0G said:
bow fishing for Gar is quite fun considering they have to come to the surface for air. Keep in mind the big ones are quite old. Gar get to a "Top of the food chain" size pretty quick.
PhenoMenal, you can catch these on reel and tackle also...........only it has to be saltwater reel and tackle lol.
PhenoMenal, you can catch these on reel and tackle also...........only it has to be saltwater reel and tackle lol.
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Geezus i've never seen any Garfish of that size, awesome catch
I used to catch them but usually when fishing for something else. Bait stealing bastards, lol...You can use cut bait-shad, herring, or other type of fish, most any type will do. Fish on the bottom or float it a foot or 2 under a cork. Have had them attack artifical lures too, but mainly when they are schooling in the area.
never forget one night in army in kansas-frying on acid(ya i know) fishing in a creek by a HUGE forest of wild hemp(no, wasnt just trippin) when we decided to do a little fishing-well, being from alaska, not knowing what a gar was, you can imagine what my mind went thru under those circumstances when i pulled a two foot allig. gar out of the creek. my mind refuses to get over that trauma!!!!thought i had caught satan in fish form.
