Hey everyone thanks for the rigging suggestions we were able to figure it out with steel and treble hooks as you saw on the second day. I'd encourage y'all to go checkout the channel "Reeling with Robby" to see how he does it and why we tried the original setup. It's getting harder and harder to reply to comments as the channel grows just know that I appreciate everyone's support and right now Iaser-focused on putting out as many videos as I can per month. Love y'all!
The Gar fishing is great, it would be awesome if you could land a big one bro! They are tough and just the thrill of seeing you getting it in the boat does it. Yeah your gators look to be over populated and they need to give out more tags. But they need to be in the right areas. Where you fish by that bridge is crazy.
Gar fishing was a huge part of my life growing up my brother and myself would pick up Pop at Kaiser Aluminum night shift then head to White House Canal. With that said you had me screaming at the screen. When they stop go down or just shake the cork he is eating after that set the hook and hold on. We love your content and just wait for the next video!!!!
Man the memories. I never Garfish without wire leaders and treble hooks and Mullets for bait. We use a coat hanger to pull the leader through the mullet mouth through and out the rear leaving the treble at the mouth. Deep sea rig with 80# line . Spent a many night at the Lake Charles Civic Center sea wall . My biggest was a 6ft at the old Downtowner Hotel in the 1980s. We slab the meat , wrap in tin foil coat some “Tony’s”, man oh man. Love the video. I got curried out working in the Middle East, can’t it eat no more. Look good though.
Love the videos, subscribed recently. In the video @01:34 you can see a scale on the tip of your hook. Should always be cleaning scales off the tip of hook like that, can make you miss hook sets. Keep up the awesome content
so i have made a few trips for gator gar and there is a trick to it. Gator gar pick up a bait and swim with it, sometimes a long way. then they stop and eat it, then they start swimming again. As you shown in the video, gator gar are extremely hard to hook in the mouth with those boney heads. You want them to swallow the hook. The tell tell sign of this is when they start swimming off again after a long pause. This pause can be excruciatingly painfully long. As long as ten minutes, usually 4 or 5, and that can seem like forever. You'll want shark proof single strand bite wire around 200 lb test. Regular steel leaders with braided steel get bit, kinked, and break with the really big ones. I use american fishing wire from amazon, single strand around 200lb test
Back in my younger days we would take the boat out with a long rope out. We would untangle the rope ends and tie heavy spoons to them. We would catch gar after doing that. It would wrap the rope ends around the snout and they were cought.
I wouldn’t use the nylon leader. I run a pre-rigged stainless leader with a 2 oz lead weight (Carolina rig) with a larger treble hook. I typically hook on a live mullet or live croaker. We catch some monsters like this in vermillion bay, typically 40lbs or larger.
I remember going fishing with my baby brother to lake Mary and I hung a large fish i thought it was a big catfish so I was reeling it in when he was coming out the water I saw this Long mouth and I threw the reel and All in the water and ran so My brother went in the water and got My reel and he caught the gar I was In the car I was laughed at the rest of the trip 😢
