Lake Fork fishing, march 29-apr 1 GAR!

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Hey, my buddy and I went to lake fork last weekend and smoked the gar! It was the most unorthidoxed fishing trip in a while but we had a blast. The first day we spent live bait and lure fishing for largemouth and caught a couple, a 4.5 and a 3.5lb but most of the fish we saw were to busy spawning to bite although several fish seen were between 20-22" so they were nice sized bass. Towards the end of the first day we got a little bored and the bite had slowed down so we thought about it and decided to try to land a few gar just fresh outta the water in the net. It worked really really well :) So the next day we fished for bass for a little bit but easily became bored and dedicated the rest of the day to using the landing net for gar, carp, and almost a nice bowfin but I lost sight of him in the reeds. The biggest gar caught was 11lbs and the biggest carp was 12lbs, enjoy ~Trent

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Sweet man...keep any of them?
 
Naw, they were all to big for my 240 right now, if I had the pond going I would have possibly kept the smallest one we caught, I woulda kept the bowfin also if I had boated him but the reeds were so thick that we lost sight of him and it was so shallow that we couldn't get the boat any closer even with paddles, it was on the bottom in about 6"-1' of water
 
WOW! gr8 catches!

Could you elaborate on your gar/carp catching technique? What exactly does it entail?
 
Gr8KarmaSF;789084; said:
WOW! gr8 catches!

Could you elaborate on your gar/carp catching technique? What exactly does it entail?


Hang off boat with net.....put net into water really fast (where fish is) and hope for the best ;)
 
rust9000;789198; said:
Hang off boat with net.....put net into water really fast (where fish is) and hope for the best ;)

So how often do you try and end up with nothing? :nilly:

Seems like it would be difficult to sneak up on a fish....
 
wow thats really cool......i definetly try and catch some smaller ones to keep........
 
NICE!!

what a good day!!!
 
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