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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1802344" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>I float fish for smallies a bit and usually the streams are teaming with gar. For years now, whenever the sun would get high and the smallie bite slow, I'd cast to these gar. They'd never give it a second look.</p><p></p><p>Last week we eased into a hole from which I pulled a couple smallies. My attention is diverted for a couple seconds while I scull draw the boat to maintain postion. As soon as I pick back up on the retrieve, I feel something solid. I'm fishing an ultralight with 4lb test, so a stout smallie and a boulder often feel pretty much the same for a bit. The I see a ridiculously large gar swimming downstream in the clear water. My drag is just singing as this thing slowly strips line off my tiny reel like a fawking tractor. My main worry is that it was gonna spool me, snap me off, and leave me line-less on day 2 of a 3-day trip (yeah, I shoulda brought a backup...I pack too light sometimes). By stroke of luck the lure came free right before it spooled me.</p><p></p><p>About an hour later I hook and land this one, which was a fraction of the of the one I'd hooked earlier. I mean, I'm not a gar fisher so I won't hazard a guess as to length/weight of the one I'd hooked earlier...but it was a very substantial fish. One of the larger ones hanging in the school of gar that pool had.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AKXrcwA2p9o/T7lSbqycvII/AAAAAAAAFHY/T6kMqXzcPos/s800/072.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0cfwtqo0pPo/T7lSQPDxZmI/AAAAAAAAFKU/AYM7N1_RmNE/s800/071.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>So after years of bored afternoons casting to these things, I hook two accidentally within an hour. Weird.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1802344, member: 4319"] I float fish for smallies a bit and usually the streams are teaming with gar. For years now, whenever the sun would get high and the smallie bite slow, I'd cast to these gar. They'd never give it a second look. Last week we eased into a hole from which I pulled a couple smallies. My attention is diverted for a couple seconds while I scull draw the boat to maintain postion. As soon as I pick back up on the retrieve, I feel something solid. I'm fishing an ultralight with 4lb test, so a stout smallie and a boulder often feel pretty much the same for a bit. The I see a ridiculously large gar swimming downstream in the clear water. My drag is just singing as this thing slowly strips line off my tiny reel like a fawking tractor. My main worry is that it was gonna spool me, snap me off, and leave me line-less on day 2 of a 3-day trip (yeah, I shoulda brought a backup...I pack too light sometimes). By stroke of luck the lure came free right before it spooled me. About an hour later I hook and land this one, which was a fraction of the of the one I'd hooked earlier. I mean, I'm not a gar fisher so I won't hazard a guess as to length/weight of the one I'd hooked earlier...but it was a very substantial fish. One of the larger ones hanging in the school of gar that pool had. [IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AKXrcwA2p9o/T7lSbqycvII/AAAAAAAAFHY/T6kMqXzcPos/s800/072.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0cfwtqo0pPo/T7lSQPDxZmI/AAAAAAAAFKU/AYM7N1_RmNE/s800/071.JPG[/IMG] So after years of bored afternoons casting to these things, I hook two accidentally within an hour. Weird. [/QUOTE]
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