How do u catch a baby gar, or even a fry??
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I know that I just registered so take my experience how u want to take it. On 06/21/2008 I caught 9 baby gars while just enjoying a day swimming in lake Texoma. My wife actually caught the first one by just scooping it up with her hands. They were only about 1/2 in. long and just let you scoop them up. I put them in a water bottle and continued to capture 8 more this way. After getting them home all 9 were still alive, one looked really sick though. I put 4 in a existing 80 gl tank with tetras and angle fish. The other 5 I put in a bucket of water. The next day the 4 that I put in the tank were gone, I to this day dont know where they went. Maby eaten by the angles. I dont know. The other 5 were alive and well. I set up a 20gl tank and put them in there. So far 1 disapeared, 1 died, and I still have 3 eating and growing. I feed them brine shrimp twice a day and they have almost doubled in size. I can email you pictures if you want. I cant tell what kind of gar they are alagator, short nose, spotted, but I know they are gars. They have light brown wavey or spoted lateral lines markings on their sides with white bellies.
what u have to do to garente to get some is u have to find out where a river comes up and when i goes down there is just a few pockets of water here and there. when u find it it will have to be summer and when it rains alot and the river floods w8 for it to go down and hten when it goes down just take a net with a long handel and scoop it through it and u will catch alot of gar among some oter random fish (a.k.a. bass carp bulegill ext.) and thats what i did and ive raised hten on feeder guppies cuz they were bout 2-4 in and they could eat them but if u get really small gar i would recomend feeding them mosquito larve.thats what i did with my first fish and it worked they ended up goin from 1 in to 1.5ft in just 1 year!!!
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