Had A Some Offbeat Fun Yesterday

[SirSnookalot]

Been doing decent with spanish makerel on the beach, no real fight but the rod bends and that's good, yesterday I get skunked out there.  I head out late morning for some bass fishing, catch 4 or 5 small ones and I head home.  Make my final stop at small feeder canal in my community, gar all over the place and I lay into one using a blaze minnow on light action rod.  Get the gar up a up a few up the bank and my leader breaks, must have  been close to 4 feet long, nice fight to those gars.  All I have in my pocket is a roostertail, walk over to a nearby pond and nail about 4 or 5 pound bass.

[Jar11591]

I guess Gar are the southern equivalent of Northern Pike. We have a few Gar up here, but as far as I know they don't get very big. But it sounds like you have a lot of different fishing opportunities close by. If the saltwater bite isn't on, the feeder canal/nearby pond bite might be! Do you ever toss bass lures for saltwater fish? I would think they'd produce in the ocean as well...

[MarksHooked]

I love reading anything from SirSnookAlot. It must be so fun to have both fresh and salt water opportunities close by! I've never tried rooster tails, I always thought they were more for trout or something up here, but thanks to you I'll be picking up a few to try out on bass this summer!

[SirSnookalot]

 Do you ever toss bass lures for saltwater fish? I would think they'd produce in the ocean as well...

 

 

Sometimes, but mostly no for hard lures, the actions are the same but quite often the hooks are different.  Zoom fluke for example is a good cross over bait, instead rigging it weedless I put it on a jig head.  Spoons cross good too.  A crappie jig is one of the best baits that can be used for some of the smaller SW fish, a guy told me today he drove 40 mile to buy some, there sold out around here. 10 for a buck and half......lol, and they flat out catch fish, I use them for peacocks.

 

IMO lures are lures, they all can catch a variety of species.  I used to know a guy down here using roostertails for snook, I called him Rooster, never knew his name.

[basshole8190]

Those gar are fun we catch them a lot on nylon rope uraveled with a bullet weight in front. they fight hard for a minute or two but tire quickly. we have longnose here.

[buzzed bait]

Those gar are fun we catch them a lot on nylon rope uraveled with a bullet weight in front. they fight hard for a minute or two but tire quickly. we have longnose here.

 

i've caught a couple out of lake juliette down in middle georgia and frankly they about scared the h*ll out of me....  growing up in the mountains of nc fishing mostly for trout makes a longnose gar look like some creepy alien fish.... 

honestly me trying to unhook that gar from a treble hooked crankbait was probably the visual equivalent of my wife trying to get ANY fish off the hook.....