Lets talk gar fishin for a minute

[livinoutdoors]

So i'll have some time to fish a bit here soon and would really like to target some gar. I alway wish i could catch more of em since they taste so good but usually its just on accident. So how would you go after em on a lake like Hartwell or similar?

 

[crackerdave]

So i'll have some time to fish a bit here soon and would really like to target some gar. I alway wish i could catch more of em since they taste so good but usually its just on accident. So how would you go after em on a lake like Hartwell or similar?

Bass-size shiners should be good.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I catch them on everything from catfish jugs to crappie jigs to frayed rope lures to arrows, but it's really hard to beat a minnow or chunk of fresh cut bait sight-fished to them. They're hard to hook. A small circle hook in the 1/0-2/0 range is about your best bet.

 

[twtabb]

That’s on my list to catch and eat a gar.
Hope they are as good as I have heard. I have thrown a many back.

 

[Wire Nut]

Every time I set a trot line I catch a couple and have a mess on my hands. To the point I put the trot line up and just set jugs. I bait my jugs with cut gizzard shad and generally catch a couple

 

[the Lackster]

Cut bream

 

[kayaksteve]

I used to target them in the hooch often in my kayak. It was fun cause if you saw one you could about guarantee a catch. I’d rig a medium sized hook with a half or whole herring (or whatever cut bait I could come up with) and put a large round brightly colored bobber (for visibility not attraction) about 2 or 3 feet up. Cast to rising gar and let them take the bait, maintain slack in the line and just follow them for as long as you can stand, atleast 5 minutes. When no your confident they’ve had time to work the bait back into their mouth set the hook and start reeling.

 

[sleepr71]

I’d go to a river if I was after Gar. Always see a pile of them in slow/stagnant areas.

 

[ryanh487]

I catch them accidentally on dowlined shad hooked through the nose a lot with my round baitcasters. I've figured out the trick is to leave the line release on with the bait clicker and wait for the second run to lock it in. They grab the shad and run with it, then stop to turn it and swallow head first. The second run is after they swallow the bait. Turn the reel after the second run starts and the circle hook will dig into the corner of their mouth perfectly.

 

[BDD]

I made a rig with several hooks and wire. I put 2 wires thru the eyelet of a hook and put
Hooks on the wire and left it at different lengths. Then hook a live minnow on the original hook,
I wouldn’t catch it on the original center hook, but one of the other 4 hooks would get him.

I put out about 30 yards of line and just paddle around the big flat holes on the Flint, never took
Long before I was hooked up, got spooled one time , had to be over 5 foot.