What A Blast!

[steverowbotham]

Headed out to Georgian Bay the other day.  It's only about a 40 minute haul but for some reason, I've never given it much attention.  I decided to go up and give it a shot.  It's known more for smallies, but I needed to scratch my flippin itch.
Found a stretch of docks about 3 or 4 miles away from the ramp that looked promising.  Picked up a craw and went to work.  I am not lying when I said I landed over 50 fish that day.  Just insane numbers of fish.  Nothing overly big, but so many 2.5 - 3 pounders it was ridiculous. A few bigger than that thrown in the mix. At one point I flipped to a dock, and a fish shot from another dock, 20 feet away to eat the bait.  Decided to go look for some smallies.  Found a shallow flat that looked good, but it was littered with Gar.  I dont see gar in any of the local lakes around, so that was neat.  Spent some time on them, man are they hard to catch.  Landed 4 but must have lost 20 of them.  Ended finding some good post spawn smallies by the end.  I'll be heading back out tomorrow to expand on the area.  Cant wait!
 

 

 

[Mccallister25]

That is freakin sweet!

[jtharris3]

Very cool. Those gar look like a lot of fun to catch!

[senile1]

Very  nice pics!  I haven't had a 50 fish day in a long, long time.

[everythingthatswims]

What were you using for gar? 

[geo g]

Great job catching a real trifecta !!!!!!!!

[steverowbotham]

What were you using for gar? 

I tried a bunch of different things to no avail.  Finally, after some thinking I remember watching a show where guys were fly fishing for them.  I dont own many flies, and certainly had none on the boat so I pulled a pink custom feathered treble off the back of a topwater bait.  I added a single split shot for castability and twitched it like a jerkbait.  I dont know if it was the feathers, or the smaller profile in general, but they were all over it.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Awesome!!  That is some great catching.

[MarkH024]

Pretty awesome Steve! Way to go!