Summer Video......gar!

[Brian Wise]

I chased something a little different this Summer.....Gar. Turned out to be AWESOME!

[Flyflinger]

I have to give this a try

[moguy1973]

Best part of the video was watching the youngin' double hauling.

Looks like fun.

[Brian Wise]

_{I was never excited about them until this Summer. I never really looked at it this way.......we have NO other fish that get as big as gar, not Musky, and for sure not Trout. Are they pretty, Lord no -- but holy crap do they fight, for the first 30 seconds.}

[Kayser]

So, are you using nylon rope flies to tangle their teeth? Any kind of leader, or just mono? I've been trying to figure this out for a while, with only broken lines to show.

[fishinwrench]

Have you ever noticed that gar are everywhere....Until you head out specifically to catch some?

[Brian Wise]

So, are you using nylon rope flies to tangle their teeth? Any kind of leader, or just mono? I've been trying to figure this out for a while, with only broken lines to show.

Yup, nylon rop with some CCG Eyes and a CCG Head. At first, I used a little bit of a "bite tippet" that was 10-12" of real heavy mono....but ended up just going with straight 10lb Maxima. The only one that I broke off broke off at the tippet knot. The teeth are pretty far away from the line once they get tangled real well, but I could see breaking one off every once in a while.

Have you ever noticed that gar are everywhere....Until you head out specifically to catch some?

Agreeeeed. I had it really good though, these fish had moved into a hole on the Bryant that was only around 1/8th of a mile--and there were TONS of them. It was crazy.

The thing that I don't understand -- they simply turned off. Earlier in the Summer they would cruise, gulp air, and hang there for a little bit giving you PLENTY of time to make a cast. The later in the Summer it got, they would gulp air and keep cruising or go right back down and you literally had a couple of seconds to make the cast (at most) and sometimes you had to throw a cast 50' in that short amount of time...and it had to be dead on the money.

Justin hooked a REALLY big fish right next to the boat, it just happend to come up right in line with where he was stripping the fly back, it looked, I said "twitch it", and it ate. VERY cool.

[Lancer09]

They shut off real bad for me this summer too, I had a few eats but was tying to actually hook them, to no avail.

Come august, there weren't even that many gulping air where I fish for them.

[Justin Spencer]

Justin hooked a REALLY big fish right next to the boat, it just happend to come up right in line with where he was stripping the fly back, it looked, I said "twitch it", and it ate. VERY cool.

Then I recall you saying the cool thing about these fish is once they are hooked you won't lose them, and what did I do ...

[Brian Wise]

Then I recall you saying the cool thing about these fish is once they are hooked you won't lose them, and what did I do ...

Geez, I know. I had to listen to myself say that over, and over, and over while I was editing the video.......I suck.