After my scout MA reported some good intel, I wanted to hit some Longnose Gar this weekend. My friend Richard was busy and couldn't come, but I rounded up Evan and Andrea for the trip.

Andrea caught his first gar last year on the fly...but today was much too windy for fly fishing.

In fact, it was so windy today that our rigs were often blown by the wind. We were fishing from a bridge position and the wind would pick up our lengthy lines and kept our bait from touching water at times, even when we have three splitshots with an equivalent of 3/8oz of weight on the line.

When the gust died down a little though, we were able to present the bait to the gar, if the current was just right. They were often quick to bite, but hooking them was another matter. We probably got over 20 hits each, but only hooked up a handful of fish each. In total, we only landed 3 gar. Luckily, Evan managed to keep one hooked and landed.





I managed two nice gar in the high 30's to low 40 inch range.

Release pic