Post by Seanstone on Jun 6, 2013 12:34:41 GMT -5
Tuesday we went out and tried rope lures out for the first time. We took apart some spinnerbaits and made some homemade rope lures from our anchor lines.
NOTE:
I was hesitant to use them in the past because if you break a gar off with the lure in its mouth, it won't be able to free it and it will starve to death. We value all species of fish as equal, we don't favor one species over others.....so we don't want to kill all the common carp to save largemouth; or kill gar to save smallies. There are many opinions on this matter, but for now i'll leave it at that. However on the last few floats we have spotted some monster gar swimming around and the temptation outweighed the cost of losing a few fish.
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We had landed some monster gar exceeding 50" in our 14' jon boat so we figured that a kayak would be the next logical step.
We didnt get any big ones, but we got the experience of handling a few in the kayaks. Oh well, we'll take baby steps. :mad:
Russ didnt get to land a gar, because Amanda wouldnt let him fish the good spots. He did get the biggest bass of the day in the riffles between holes.
We caught a ton of spotted bass, a bunch of very eager longear sunfish, and a few smallies. Hopefully we can get out a couple more times before the rains stir the creeks up too much.
NOTE:
I was hesitant to use them in the past because if you break a gar off with the lure in its mouth, it won't be able to free it and it will starve to death. We value all species of fish as equal, we don't favor one species over others.....so we don't want to kill all the common carp to save largemouth; or kill gar to save smallies. There are many opinions on this matter, but for now i'll leave it at that. However on the last few floats we have spotted some monster gar swimming around and the temptation outweighed the cost of losing a few fish.
OK BACK TO THE POST
We had landed some monster gar exceeding 50" in our 14' jon boat so we figured that a kayak would be the next logical step.
We didnt get any big ones, but we got the experience of handling a few in the kayaks. Oh well, we'll take baby steps. :mad:Russ didnt get to land a gar, because Amanda wouldnt let him fish the good spots.
He did get the biggest bass of the day in the riffles between holes. We caught a ton of spotted bass, a bunch of very eager longear sunfish, and a few smallies. Hopefully we can get out a couple more times before the rains stir the creeks up too much.
