Gar fishing is a small window of oppertunity, and a few conditions have to be met in order for success. Hot, calm, sunny days are needed and weed growth has to be present but not thick due to fishing in 2ft of water.
Last week every thing came togeather. RJ and I headed out to last years honey hole. This was the result... 49"er, 15lbs. NICE...!!!
So I return home and I have a message from another fishing buddy and fellow Hawk-talker (HOF) another Rob. Turns out he's got the next day off work. So fishing we go. After seeing RJ's post that evening, (HOF) was ready for some Gar. I thought I could hook him up somewhere close to my house, so we start the hunt. It was'nt looking too good at first, all the Gar I sighted the past week had moved out of the area. The pike were hitting good though...
One more spot to try...... Soon it was like " Holy s*%# look at that"..." Oh my God, there's a Giant".... " Sweet Jesus....!!!" and so on and so on... Here was the result for about two hours fishing.
The first fish......
These are just a few of the Gar landed, and we had many on. Two other fish we had on were about the same size as the big one, which came in at just under 20lbs. For anyone who has not met me and want to relate my size to the size of the fish, I'm 6'2" 215lbs...... I tried to keep the fish tight to my belly for the photos cause she was really fat for a gar. For some reason though she didn't like being up close and personal.
again congrats on the new Canadan record....awesome just awesome 