I have caught several in the James River with live white perch using the same single hook rig most of you guys use for cat fishing. When I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago at rudds creek I let go a brim when he was half dead after using him for catfishing. As he half floated and half swam away from the bank I watched a Gar push him around with his long nose. It looked like a marlin the way the bill comes out of the water when its chasing a trolled bait in the ocean.

hi all,

so far everytime me and my fishing partners go out fising. (always for catfish). We always catch atleast 1 gar.

This last trip to bugss island, we fished from blueston to the fork.

My friend earl caught 2 gar, both between 6-10 pounds. 1 hit on a suspended shad, and 1 on bottom rig shad.

your thoughts!?

wow, no one else has any exsperiences with gar. lol!, come on people.

grow a sack and maybe u can catch something

something has in!?

Well their heck on a cast net, good for killing and steeling bait. And they do seem to hang around cats and stripers. Have caught them almost every way but deep and have run out of bait because of them in the river. They also fraying leaders. Nothing against them, other than time and money.