Double Plopper in hand

[Champ188]

Nearly lost one of my top-shelf Redfins to a dadgum gar a couple of years ago. A 4-footer. Maybe more. Was fishing a hole recommended by Babler. I still wonder if I got pranked.

[abkeenan]

On 8/25/2016 at 6:44 AM, magicwormman said:

I think the fish will want to hit the little plopper rather than hitting the whole bait and getting hooked. I hope I'm wrong, or lots of people are going to be disappointed.

I think it's almost impossible for them to get the two ploppers before the submerged hook. They are attacking from below or behind and will almost ALWAYS attack the rear bait or straggler. 

[Guest]

If they're difficult to tune, then I want no part of that. They should've used titanium like 24/7 was saying.

I might sell mine & buy a couple more little ploppers

[magicwormman]

16 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Nearly lost one of my top-shelf Redfins to a dadgum gar a couple of years ago. A 4-footer. Maybe more. Was fishing a hole recommended by Babler. I still wonder if I got pranked.

Babler did mention that he owed you one! Just saying..............maybe he caught you in his HONEY hole.

[Fish24/7]

20 hours ago, m&m said:

Great, just what we need is another gar magnet lure on the market. 

Mike

 don't let 'em grab it,lol

the first couple times i saw a huge wake come up behind the bait i got pretty excited but ..they were just gar

[Champ188]

I'm with you 24/7. I usually try to get my bait away from them but this stupid thing came up out of the middle of a cedar tree like a darn bass.

[176champion]

Last Sunday evening i had a gar chasing my wiggle wart...he followed it right up to the boat..

[Donna G]

Back in the day (seventies), all us Texas anglers threw a lipless crank bait by Bomber called a Pinfish.  It was obligatory to have at least one each white, chrome and black.  Most of us fished shallow year-round and in a lot dirtier water than TR. You could hurl the Pinfish a mile and it was often a mad dash back to the boat when a gar spotted that chrome one up in the muddy shallows.  I'd be cranking so hard on my Ted Williams Ambassador 5000 that the crankbait was skipping across the surface and you could still see the gar charging.  lol  Fun times.

 

[Fish24/7]

Donna I have some of those in white. I always wondered what they were called. All I knew about them was they were Bomber made. ty

[Fish24/7]

6 hours ago, Champ188 said:

I'm with you 24/7. I usually try to get my bait away from them but this stupid thing came up out of the middle of a cedar tree like a darn bass.

yep, I've lost a few of my spooks to gar that way.