thank you 
June 19, 2012 at 4:53 pm
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Rough Fish Photos of 2012
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June 22, 2012 at 12:02 pm #1078008
Nice Fish
July 10, 2012 at 3:26 am #1082494Not the greatest pic, but it was dark out.
Caught this one just below a small dam with about a 4′ drop in about 4′ of water. I was dangling my cat gear over a railing and bobbing a crawler up and down. BAM. Hit hard. Probably went about 2#… not huge, but not insignificant.
I wish I’d gotten a pic of the one I landed the other day. Granted it was only about 6″ long, but it was silver (as per normal) on the flanks and it faded to a deep, dark violet color on top. The predominant color scheme was silver/purple. Amazing little fish.
July 18, 2012 at 4:29 pm #1085365Caught my first longnose gar ever last Friday evening on the Croix at Hudson. Took a pic of it on the ground first and was getting ready to pick it up for a pic holding it when it started flipping around, getting all covered in sand. Tried to rinse it off and it got away from me
July 19, 2012 at 7:01 pm #1085821My guess: cut sucker on rope jigs…
July 20, 2012 at 2:13 pm #1086047Nice one Manny!
I made up 3 “rope” lures last winter. I haven’t tried them yet but they look like they’ll work.
Used a 2/0 swivel and a Zip Tie to hold the nylon rope to the swivel, then frayed out the rope.
They are a wiggling, fighting fish for their size…and their teeth will draw blood.
July 20, 2012 at 5:25 pm #1086142Yeah, his post kinda sounded like he was targeting them.
Which is something I actually want to do sometime… because it sounds like fun!
July 23, 2012 at 3:21 pm #1086607Sorry, guys…wasn’t targetting gar. The fish made a grab for my live sucker minnow and got its teeth caught in the line.
July 23, 2012 at 5:13 pm #1086648Went out to catch a gar, and did, I caught 2 then stopped, after trying to rinse it off it lashed back and cut my hand a few times, pulled out a tooth when I got home later. SUPER HAPPY, and much respect to the shortnose gar!
July 24, 2012 at 11:54 am #1086857Cool! But that will teach you for being nice to a gar!
July 24, 2012 at 2:43 pm #1086909last night I pulled out another tooth. a bigger one, gross
Next time I’m wearing a Knight’s FULL BODY Armor suit!
July 24, 2012 at 9:56 pm #1087037Or at least kevlar mesh gloves.
July 25, 2012 at 12:44 pm #1087115Nicole, how where you targeting them? What lure?
I’ve heard their bites don’t like to stop bleeding very fast.
July 25, 2012 at 1:38 pm #1087129I was targeting them by the trusty method of knowing where they’ve been hanging out and asking if my friend would take me. He told me to bring a bike. 2 mile bike ride and 1 mile through thick brush.
I used a reg hook and a crawler.
And in that photo blood is coming down the other side. I asked before i left that day, someone named Jeremy Liebig, how to hold one. He said “it’s a fish Nicole just a fish!”
That’s no carp JEREMY!!!!
July 25, 2012 at 3:02 pm #1087141I swear gar and dogfish are the only fish that look at you and wait for a moment of weakness to strike.
Pulling teeth out of your flesh sounds like a real blast!
July 25, 2012 at 5:20 pm #1087174Quote:
I swear gar and dogfish are the only fish that look at you and wait for a moment of weakness to strike.
You can add American eel to that list. Those suckers are mean!July 25, 2012 at 5:48 pm #1061653How about lampreys? Those suckers like to turn on you like a snake.
July 25, 2012 at 6:20 pm #1061676I think it is cool that you handled that gar on your own like you did, you rock
There is nothing funnier than watching a grown man dancing in a boat or on the bank afraid to grab a gar or a bowfin
Jeremy is correct, it is just a fish!July 25, 2012 at 7:40 pm #1087204
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There is nothing funnier than watching a grown man dancing in a boat or on the bank afraid to grab a gar or a bowfin
You said you wouldn’t ever talk about that.
July 26, 2012 at 2:08 pm #1087381 I saved both teeth, no one at my work really cares to see.. too bad I don’t work with all of you! (we wouldn’t get much done maybe??)
July 26, 2012 at 10:01 pm #1087591Quote:
I saved both teeth, no one at my work really cares to see.. too bad I don’t work with all of you! (we wouldn’t get much done maybe??)
Get’em made into a necklace… the great white fish huntress lives and reigns supreme!
July 26, 2012 at 10:20 pm #1087596the first one was the one that was in my thumb for almost 2 days – the coin is a dime (now i feel like a dork, its so small
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the one Im holding was the one I pulled out when I got home that day.I would wear a pair of garings with a matching “gar-lace”
July 27, 2012 at 12:17 am #1087618Small does not equal painless…Re: paper cuts.
July 27, 2012 at 12:08 pm #1087693
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I would wear a pair of garings with a matching “gar-lace”
I bet that would go nicely with those boots
The one tooth looks like it has barbs on it. I’m sure they are razor sharp too.
Neat treasure you have there!!!August 13, 2012 at 11:33 am #1091746This Red Horse hit my gill set up off the top of a wing dam. When I first set the hook he thought he was a Tarpon
I believe this is the biggest sucker I have boated. The dude had scales the size of a watch crystal
A lot of fun with the UL tackle!
August 13, 2012 at 12:00 pm #1091753Nice! Suckers are a fun fish that are under most people’s radar. Shoot, even I only target them in the spring.
August 13, 2012 at 12:50 pm #1091764Nice fish Bret. Fun fish to catch.
August 13, 2012 at 1:45 pm #1067752That’s a beaut!
September 28, 2012 at 5:42 pm #1101901Here is Milemark_714’s gar. Net with handle is 40″ and it was about 8 inches longer than that. So, rough guess of 48″. Smacked a pink/white blade bait pitching to structure in the current on Pool 6
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