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I dont know if it is just me, but the gar population seems really healthy the last couple of years on the Ottawa, so much so i am afraid to go skinny dipping anymore since we caught one off of the dock!?!?!?!?!
Ace wrote:I dont know if it is just me, but the gar population seems really healthy the last couple of years on the Ottawa, so much so i am afraid to go skinny dipping anymore since we caught one off of the dock!?!?!?!?!
have fished there my entire life and never saw one there. You sure Appleton near Carleton Place and Almonte?? This river has never had gar before and the Miss Lake does not have them. Down toward blakeney does not have them and Pakenham does not have them. Again this would be a total surprise if Gar were here because I have fished this for over 30 years.
Yes, I'm quite aware where Appleton is, and I am also well aware what a gar looks like, especially when its two feet from your boat, going after your lure gingerly.
Well pretty cool Sportspal. Very rare then for sure. Hope I can get into one one day around there. How long ago was this??
Fishing isn't a matter of life and death....
It's much more important.
It was actually the spring of this year while I was fishing for Pike and Crappie.
The small bay to the right of the launch usually holds a fair number of early season pike before the weeds get too thick.
I've never bothered going too far past the power lines early season since I've never caught anything but Bass up that way, so we resorted to staying in the main bay. I was casting small little 4" grub-senko types to the right of the dam outflow, and we moved across from where the building burned down a few years back. I tossed out towards some new weed growth by a branch in the water, and there she be.
Hopefully, it was a one of kind fish for the area, but it was the first I'd seen there in 6 years.
