Gar

[David L. Darnell]

been looking at these beast all my life, finally tied up a Gar fly last night and headed off the lower Elk this morning after dropping off Precious at school.


Got this one in, had a couple on, that if they could have opened their mouth, this one would have had a bad day.

[adamtn]

nice! how was the fight? I've seen them lots of time but never even been able to get a follow. How'd the release go? You couldn't get me to put my hand anywhere near that things mouth.

[Steve H]

David, really nice. They look prehistoric with that mouth. I have seen flies in the past that don't even have hooks, just a shank.

[Mike Hill]

You really don't even need the hook.  Years ago I would tie a short section of doubled over plastic covered clothesline on my line.  You need the type of clothes line that had a million filaments inside a plastic covering.  Take the covering off the trailing part of the line and chunk it at them.  When they would strike, their teeth would get entangled in the filaments.  Sometimes you would just have to cut the "lure" off it would bet so entangled.  Now all you have to do is to tie some bigger flies, get your big rod out - go to one of the gulf coastal riverine estuaries and go after some of them real gar - those 100+ lb alligator gar.  Those babies will put some scare into you!!

[David L. Darnell]

I left the hook on in case a Smallie wanted some breakfast.

[Mike Hill]

Must have been a Boy Scout - "Always Prepared"!!

[David L. Darnell]

Never was a scout, after my first wife pass away in 1989, my son was in the second grade and wanted to be a scout, I ended up being a cub master, what a farce, you ever dealt with mothers of scouts

Was to much like being at work.

Just was lucky enough to be raised in a dead end hollow with a spring branch running through the front yard. Had thousands of acres that belonged to neighbors that we could come and go and treat like out own. Those were the days.