East Bay Gar

[Matthew]

We were wading a shoreline in East Galv on Friday, and slayed this beast! Fought him for about 30 minutes, before we were able to slip a rope around him. Crazy!

[Robalo]

Ya frying gar balls?

[Hogie70]

East Bay Gar

I walk up on those things all the time wade fishing lol. Nice catch I bet it was a good fight.

[Matthew]

Ya frying gar balls?

Heck no! That thing was stunk!

[FP10]

I walk up on those things all the time wade fishing lol. Nice catch I bet it was a good fight.

Makes a nice brown streak in the water with the big splash when you surprise them.

[Hogie70]

East Bay Gar

Lol I had on thrash on something like right on front of me last year. Lol talk about a brown streak

[gus12343]

That's a rare one there!!

[buoy37]

I am about 90% sure I hooked into a gar yesterday morning while wading the barren Seabrook flats. One or several gars were working huge pods of mullet. We keep seeing the tails as they came up for a breath.

I felt a thump and set a the hook into a "log" of a fish. I could turn it. I couldn't stop it. Eventually, I was able to get my line back.

[FishNette]

Heck no! That thing was stunk!

So what did you do with it???

It takes about 20yrs for them to grow to that size.

[Matthew]

It was released to fight another day.

[trophytroutman]

Heck of a fight.

[duckboy007]

My wife caught one about that size last Independence Day off the old ICW behind surf side. After about 30 seconds I could see it was a gar, and I wanted to just cut it off, but she wanted to land it, so we did!

6 footer. Took about 45 minutes on my old Allstar. She loves that fish story.

[RonE]

We were actually fishing for "river monsters" (and drinking beer) and caught this 48 lb gar. Not as big as we were looking for so the quest continues.

[Draggin Yak]

I had a big one like that wack the side of my Kayak when I must have run up on it. I guess we both were as surprised as the other.