The best gar hole I've seen in a while is 370 Lakeside Park in St Peters MO.
The place is filthy with em and you can walk around the bank easy enough.
I prefer nylon rope for them.
Easy to cast and it tangles in their teeth.
I use white with the head area painted red.
It's very difficult to get a hook into a big one.
Pete
Heck that boat for sale on here used is $52K.
I'd be embarrassed to pull it in my $40K truck.
That thing is stud.
That clown picture in your sig scares me a little.
Carry on.
Pete
Rim Shoals on the White years ago in the rain.
Little 9 or 10 inch rainbow hit my green wooly bugger I was stripping on my 5 weight.
While I was dragging it in a 27 inch male brown nailed it.
I chased the double down river for quite a ways when I saw the little rainbow had slid up the fly line.
The brown had the bugger in his mouth and it must've pulled through the bottom of the rainbows mouth like a stringer.
While the rainbow flailed around it broke through it's bottom jaw and my brother grabbed it with his hands.
I corralled the brown down the island and I have several pictures of it.
It was all kyped up and bloody.
Happened during the conclave in October.
I have paper pictures of it.
Sorry no digital back then.
Pete
Davy knot is the best ever.
Especially when flouro tippet is so expensive.
When you get good at it there is no tag end at all and it doesn't put the curly Q near the eye.
http://www.animatedknots.com/davy/
I'll show it to in person when we have the next OA outing in AR.
I tie it upside down compared to the video.
Pete
Nice looking fly!
I've been out west many times and years I ago I discovered that I could tie caddis flies in several different body colors and that's all I would use.
Killed em.
Barring a specific hatch like green drakes or something.
The other method I found that not many people do out there is fishing streamers on sinking lines.
Also killed em.
Pete
Hmmm.
Sounds similar to your "Help me settle an argument" post.
Maybe the new bride has more juice than you thought.
You'll prolly be home early for dinner now.
Pete
I heard they stocked it but I not sure with what.
Mid summer last year there were literally hundreds of gar cruising around.
Our mill is just south of 370 on that exit.
Pete
I have a picture of my mom smoking a Camel non and drinking a Manhattan while pregnant with me but women like me.
Just ask my wife's sister.
You have a lot of hate in you Joe.
Let it out, you'll feel better.
Pete