Got "Moby"
Got "Moby"
We couldn't resist the temptation to return to our gar catching spot today. I'd like to think we caught a fish that was as large as "Moby", which we lost yesterday. Again, weight calculators fail me, but I'd say this fish, which measured 83" in length and 34 1/2" in girth was pushing 180#.
I am so glad it is raining. I need to stay home tomorrow.
Kim
I am so glad it is raining. I need to stay home tomorrow.
Kim
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freespool wrote:I don't think I would be in the water where that thing was swimming. Good gosh that thing is huge. I did not know they git that big. I have seen them several feet long, but not that fat.
They are actually very gentle fish when not being harrassed by us fishermen. Seashell, even knowing the fish were in the hole of water we were fishing was begging me to let her go swimming.
Kim
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I don't know how accurate this length/girth calculator is, but even if the gar was small for its size, the calculator indicates it was over 200 lbs. :
http://www.csgnetwork.com/fishfreshwtcalc.html
http://www.csgnetwork.com/fishfreshwtcalc.html
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be very careful with those things. Just when you think they're asleep or dead, they wake up real quick! On two different trips I almost wound up with some nasty wounds. One time I had one in my row boat next to my leg when it decided to let me know it was still alive. I got scratched pretty bad by its teeth on my calf. It kinda felt like when you take a spill on the jetties and tear up your leg. Another time a friend caught one and I was walking by it and it swung around and clipped my ankle. I almost fell on it. It's good that your daughter is keeping the fishing rod between her and that bad boy. I caught my first gar(3 footer) while working a cast net on a spillway. I bearhugged it back to the bank where these two old men watching me said I was stupid for doing so. They told me that if he had clamped on to me(purple nurple) he would of started spinning and tore off a chunk of skin.
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greyloon wrote:Strider, how do you thing two and thee pound Tilapia would do?
Jerry, I think it would work real well, but to avoid any legal confrontations (although it is probably legal so long as the tilapia are gutted), if I were going to buy some fish I would get freshwater drum or buffalo. Fiesta usually has both. I just told EWB that on the other post.
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