Summer Video......gar!

[Gavin]

Very nice as always...They pull hard.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Great video as usual, always enjoy them Brian! There's tons of Gar on the St. Francis down here, and I've targeted them before, but never with a fly rod, gonna have to try that sometime. Another rough fish that would be cool to pursue with a flyrod is a Bowfin, or (Grinnel), pound for pound, the stoutest fish I've ever fought,

[rfd515]

Stupid question but how hard is it to remove the rope fly after beaching the monster?

[Brian Wise]

Stupid question but how hard is it to remove the rope fly after beaching the monster?

Definitely not a stupid question. I use LONG nose pliers and gloves......it isn't easy for sure.

[hoglaw]

Great video as usual, always enjoy them Brian! There's tons of Gar on the St. Francis down here, and I've targeted them before, but never with a fly rod, gonna have to try that sometime. Another rough fish that would be cool to pursue with a flyrod is a Bowfin, or (Grinnel), pound for pound, the stoutest fish I've ever fought,

We used to call them Grizz - like a proper name. I saw one in the tank at Cabellas the other day. I didn't know we had any up this way. Used to catch them all the time farther south. One of my favorite places on earth to fish is the White River Refuge, like the oxbows around Maddox Bay. Take a map or gps, beach the boat, bushwack to an oxbow and grab someone's boat that's tied up. Have had some awesome times catching crappie and bass in those cypress knee oxbows. The grinnel get packed into some of them pretty good and will hang near shallow cover like bass. They hit a spinnerbait hard. Every time I think I've got a lunker on for about two seconds, then everyone knows it's Grizz!