Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 03 - 03/01/01 to 12/31/03

Fishing again

Just returned from Lake Towakani east of Dallas after a couple of days of relaxing, working on my bud's boat and loafing. Caught a big catfish on my grand pa's dough bait recipe to prove it still works, and had a run in with a huge Gar fish.
For those of you who don't know, a gar fish is a huge set of sharp teeth surrounded by a few fins to propel them with. One very seldom catches a gar fish in the mouth. They are usually foul hooked and drug in like a log. Well not this time. I had a small shad on the line for bait and was looking for a self respecting bass to grab it and give me a bit of a fight before we both called it a day. Well I got a hit, and I mean a hit, and said "well here goes". The darned thing twisted turned and bucked and I knew I had a good bass on that line. It broke the surface and I saw it was a gar, mouth hooked and pissed off as he could be. When I got him to the dock and at the surface his head was yanking this way and that, and the teeth were snapping like mad , trying to spit the hook. The fish was about three and a half feet long. The deck part I was standing on was about 3 feet wide. My bud asked " well aren't you going to bring it in?' I repled " Hell no! I don't want that son of a bitch up here with me." He laughed and said " I thought you might want a picture"
I was reaching for my knife to cut the line when one of the razor teeth connected and did the job for me and the old gar ran free. Most likley still pissed and looking for a fight.
I sat down and re-rigged with a top water popper lure and proceeded to scare all the fish out of the neighborhood so I could rest. I told my bud if the fish kept bothering me I was going to move to another location.
All in all, a fine way to spend a few weekdays-))
BT

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