gars,bird id,snails,skeeter fish

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Polypterus
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Jun 20, 2006
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under a bridge in fl
went netting/fishing/sight seeing :D

first pic,
anyone know what kind of birds?
never seen them before.
big,grey,and had bright red hair on top of its head.
"no joke,pics dont show it" :(

next 2 pics,
2 gar i got pics of.
i caught 4 i think but other 2 got off before i could get pics
"landed them tho"
one was huge,story,
im fishin,blabla,i see the normal sized gar swimming around "20inchers"
then out of the grass comes a monster,no joke,twice as big as the others :nilly:
i cast in front of him,bam,he takes the market shrimp and swallows it.
i set the hook and fight is on.
get him to the shore,drag him on shore,
he starts jumping and flopping like theres no tomorrow.
i pull the line to stop him,snap,20lb braided like its nothing :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
i almost jumped in after it :(
"im after a monster gar for a record or another citation for the ones that dont know"
so now i lost my monster im mad and plan to go back this weekend loaded with leaders and market shrimp.
:D

next 4 pics,
then i go down the road a bit and find this culvert with a bunch of gar lined up catching stuff.
this is a ditch with around a foot of water in it.lol
there was even blue tilapia sliding through the culvert like a park ride. :D
it was too funny,seen at least 3 do it in less then 5 min.
one slid out,on its side,looked up and seen me and then darted back upstream.i was :ROFL:

next 2 pics,
there was a huge pile of ramshorn snails.
that blob is all snails lol

last 2 pics are of the skeeter fish i got with my umb net "feeders" :D

enough jibber jabber,on with the pics
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Wow look at all of those gars
 
OMFG I WANT THOSE GARS...and a tank big enough to keep em :(
 
nice day out brother
thanks :)
nice!

birds look like grey herons to me.
thats close but like i said all of them had a full head of bright red hair.

Wow look at all of those gars
ya theres tons.that ditch connects to a lake.
the lake is full of them,i call it gar lake :D

OMFG I WANT THOSE GARS...and a tank big enough to keep em :(
ya everytime i go i look for a baby but ive never seen a baby gar anywhere. :irked:
 
thats a sandhill crane aka very annoying lol
thats funny
i was talking to oddball through pm and he said some type of crane .
i googled crane bird and found that sandhill crane bird and pm'ed oddball about it but i said the one site i read said siberia or something so i didnt think it was it.
was waiting to see what oddball said before posting but ya beat me to it.lol
good call :D
i think thats what they were. :)
 
great day, no?
 
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