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Spotted Gar fishing in a nutshell

> Live in South Florida
> Fish during Springtime
> Catch small lizards for bait
> Cut them in half
> Walk around lake looking for a gar
> Find one and cast in front of Gar
> Gar is almost guaranteed to bite
> Wait for Gar to swallow bait
> Net Gar when up close or it will get off hook
> Catch
> Take Picture
> Use pliers to unhook fish
> Release

Catching the Spotted Gar is fun as fuck I have no idea why people consider them trash fish. They are big and put up a good fight.

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I love fishing for catfish. I use chicken livers. I'll add several shot weights and make an easy cast out, keep the bail open, and wait. All that's left is setting the hook once line starts to spool off.

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Caught this bad boy Tuesday. Biggest fish of the day. 26 inches. Caught it on a plastic. Don't ever use bait

>>661580
My father caught this 21 inch trout on plastic as well. Smallest trout out of the 5 was 15 inches

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>>661581
Said speckled trout

i love perch

i just cast a spinner over and over again. works fine

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Mepps is the #1 choice, or a Rapala if the water is real clear. Largemouth and peacock bass all day.

>>661586
second for perch. i mostly drop shot for em though.

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>>661436
Where do you live?

I have managed to hook gar on lures a couple times, but it is tough. Got one on a nightcrawler one night too, but they just played around with the hook forever before they actually took it.

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>>661598
>>661436
>live in South Florida
I'm also retarded. Tell me your secret bass spots.

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>>661598
If you are in South Florida catch one of these Lizards cut it in half and put it on a small hook. Keep the floater near the top of the water and try to find a gar in your lake/canal since they usually hang out near the top of the water.

Once you find the gar cast near it and move the bait slowly and it will almost always bite.

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>>661623
I need to try it. I have millions of those anoles (lizards) around my house. One little lake right down the street used to have a bunch of gar right near the shore in one spot. Haven't seen them the past couple times I have been there tho.

I'm in Broward. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to wake up early and hit some little ponds and canals out in Weston and Pembroke Pines.

>>661587

I see you posting about mepps everywhere haha. Im a fan too, I absolutely love inline spinners. They produce for me when nothing else will and mepps are some of the best.

However, blue fox is still my #1 inline spinner. Usually gold, but silver if its clear and sunny. Try them, they have a little "vibrator" in the head so they draw extra attention, and ive noticed they cast better than the mepps.

I like #3 usually for extra casting distance. I catch little black crappie on them too so they are nowhere near too big lol

>>661644
do u see gar during the winter?

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>>661671
I'll look into Blue Fox and grab a couple next time I see them.

I prefer Mepps because they seem to have the best action. The blade spins all the time and never gets tangled up like cheaper ones. I have a handful of Rooster Tails as well. They have a lot of florescent colors which is good for peacocks. Largemouth don't hate the flourescent yellow either.

>>661674
Well it's South Florida, so winter means mid-high 70s during the day. But I haven't seen any gar lately. Earlier in the summer, there were a million at this one pond. I haven't been there a ton lately, but I didn't see any the past couple times I was there (within the past month).

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And a couple of the bright Rooster Tails. The one on top (or right depending how this pic uploads) is some smaller 1/8oz and it is a bass killer. I gave one to my little bro and he caught that ~5lb largemouth on it. He was lucky that little hook on an ultralite landed such a big fish.

Snakehead seem to love the Mepps and other spinners too.

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My favorite cup.

About a year ago, I got this one and a White Sox Tervis for Christmas. I am a Cubs fan.

Smallmouth on the fly in a fast moving river is probably my favorite. In my opinion the smallmouth is the GOAT freshwater fish

>All these flatland plebs

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I FINALLY caught a fish on a topwater lure!

Had one hit earlier too, but tried to set the hook too hard. This guy, I let him take the bait under water before I set it.

>>661959
PepsiFag, I live in south florida, and love going lake fishing. I bought some Mepps likes you suggested in another thread, but i've been having ALOT of luck with wackyrigged worms. I've caught about 40 fish in the lakes just this year. No action, just cast, let it sit for a minute or two, and strike.

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>>662209
We gotta go fishin jeezy

>>661959
Topwater Rapala killin it today. I have never, ever had luck with poppers, but I've gotten 2 largemourh on em today. One this morning and one just now.

>>662218
I guess it has to be a bit colder like today for the topwaters to work, I've never had luck with them

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>>662230
Where do you stay? I'm in Deerfield. But this morning I went out to Miramar real early.

Supposedly they are best at dusk and dawn, when the water is fairly calm and you can see the fish feeding at the top. Today is fairly warm, and I was trying some poppers like a month ago when it was warm and got a handful of bites, but was setting the hook too quick. Also the water was real calm this morning, but there is a light breeze right now and they are still biting.

I just got another bite on this rubber frog, but couldn't hook it. That's the one problem with weedless lures like that.

>>662252
I'm way out southwest, by Kendall. Got caught by the lake fishing bug a few months ago, still haven't caught anything on a hard lure. Soft plastics though have worked real well for me for the largemouth/smallmouth bass. New Years resolution is to catch a peaock.

>>662619
Damn I'm suprised you get smallmouth. I haven't seen any. When you finally get a peacock, it will be fun. They fight hard.

>>661213
It's a good thing you cut out half of your face, but if I were you I would've not shown the whole thing.

What kind fishing can be done without a boat in socal during this season? I might give it a try after all the storm pass

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Sup sc/out/s

I feel I've developed a respectable collection of lures. What do you think?
R8 my tackle box

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>>662813
>What kind fishing can be done without a boat in socal during this season?
Ice fishing

>>662877
My bad I didn't know socal was southern California

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Yellow Perch. Bait spreaders with shiners, jig gently to entice. Lot of fun when the fishing is good, and theyre delicious

>>661213
I love Cero and Spanish Mackerels, I use those $1 packs of white crappie jigs and sometime live bait on long shank hooks.

NJ, surf fishing. I prefer to chuck bait instead of lures, there's more variety of what you catch that way.

Fuck the winter man. I bought myself a nice inflatable raft to go fishing on for Christmas but I need to wait until April for the lakes to thaw.

>>663240
Very few lakes here are frozen yet because of el nino
I'm in southern Ontario

I was considering putting a rowboat in and trolling with diving rapalas but everything except perch and pike are closed

Lake trout open for ice fishing February 1st

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>>663240
I know that feeling. When I was younger and still lived in Chicago, I would ask for BMX and fishing stuff for Christmas, and then I could never use it until April-May.

You should move somewhere warm.

>>663251
I really should. Winter is depressing.

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>>663256
Winter is what you make of it
I took this pic while ice fishing last winter

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>>661213
Caught this last week in temperatures below freezing. Never had the eyes of my rod freeze before.

BLUEFISH

They're aggressive as hell and put up a fight.

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caught today