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WE USED TO WHEN I WAS YOUNG AT STORMS CREEK, IN IRONTON BY THE OLD BOAT DOCK. A GUY USED TO SELL US PLUGS THAT LOOKED LIKE THEY WAS MADE FROM MOP ENDS, NO HOOKS. THEY WOULD GET THEIR TEETH TANGLED , AND YOU JUST REELED THEM IN. YOU COULD LEAN NEARLY RIGHT OVER TOP OF THEM, AND DROP IT. ALMOST LIKE SNAGGIN. I'VE TRIED IT AS AN ADULT, BUT THEY SEEM SKIDDISH NOW, AND YOU HARDLY EVER SEE THEM. WE NEVER CAUGHT ANYTHING REEL BIG. BUT WE USED TO SEE SOME DECENT PADDLEFISH TOO, BUT NEVER CAUGHT ONE. I'D LOVES TO GET AHOLD OF ONE OF THEM gator gars.

I catch atleast 10 Gar a year qhile Crappie fishing at Whites Mill in Athens, Yeah I would love to catch a few of those Monster Gator Gar also..

HOW DO YOU FISH FOR THEM, WITH A HOOKLESS PLUG LIKE WE DID. WITH LIKE A LEADHEAD, AND MOP STRINGS.

I've caught a lot of them, usually on ballhead jigs and grubs but, I wasn't fishing for them when I caught them. When they come into the area you usually need to just pick up and go somewhere else, they run the other fish off or they quit hitting or something.

i've only caught one, on a hook, and of all things we were panfishing. i was using a yellow or orange rooster tail. we used to buy them at harvey's gunshop. for 25 cents. he had every color , and combination. now they are what 3.99

We use minnows floating under a bobber at the Mill.

caught one once, it was around 24". the same night one guy next to me caught on around 5 ft long and 20+ pounds.

when my son's were young they loved to fish, but if they caught a Gar, they would run around trying to get someone to take it off the hook!! They called the "TOOTHY CRITTERS".

for sure! I have usually carried a wash cloth in my pocket so I could remove them from the hook

LES GO GARRIN. WHO'S INN.

You're Tiger Bait wrote:LES GO GARRIN. WHO'S INN.

That's the language of a catfisherman and noodler if I ever saw it!

YOU ARE THE ONE FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND.