I had an awesome morning gar fishing in big creek on lake somerville. The lake is 19 feet high and the creek is flooded which gar love. I caught the first one on a rebel minnow and then switched to the rapala shadow rap and caught 3 more on that. I was using a lews spinning reel with 10lb Powerpro braid. When gar are swimming on top you can usually flip a lure at them and they will destroy it. This is one of my favorite ways to fish.
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Gar Love Topwaters!
In this video I go to a local creek with my friend Will and fish for spotted gar. The gar were sitting on top and really wanted the small topwater we were throwing. Unfortunately they are super hard to hook and we only ended up catching two out of a bunch of misses. This footage is awesome and it...
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Huge Bass Go Airborne!!
In this video I feed gizzard to a bunch of hungry bass in the pond. Even though it was cold the fish were still active and flew out of the water for the shad.
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Huge Bass Explosions!
In this video I feature clips filmed with my new slow mo camera of the pet bass exploding on shad.