What a Chunk this one was

Selling Cars and Catching Gars!

Ask For Donnie Hinkle "West Point Lake Gar Grabber"

I Went fishing by myself on my normal Tuesday off. I'm still using the 1/2oz bullet weight with my homemade rope lure. This time I thought I would stop in at the Pic Nic Basket Bait and Tackle Shop to pick up some red dye with garlic scent. I used it in the spring with good success but I've been out for some time now. I'm not sure if the dye did it but I caught my biggest Longnose Gar of the month using it. It had to weight almost 15-20 lbs. Talking about a chunk now! It was about 50 inches long and fat fat fat! I wished I had someone with me to take a picture of me with this awesome specimen of a fish. I tried to hold it while I set the timer on my digital camera but as I held it off the side of the boat in case it got rowdy that's just what It did and Fatty slipped from my hand and into the water. I guess that's better than getting bit trying to do something that difficult.

Timmy says "I'd rather be lucky than good"

Selling Cars and Catching Gars!

Ask For Donnie Hinkle "West Point Lake Gar Grabber"

Timmy and I spent the day Gar fishing. It proved to be a very frustrating day for us. We caught a few small ones but had to endure watching a bunch of large Longnose surface for a gulp and then go right back down time and again all around us all day long. We just couldn't seem to catch them. Except for this one Gar. Timmy placed his rod in the rod holder to take a leak and as he was shaking so was his rod tip. Here's Timmy's skillful catch.

Julie lands her first Longnose Gar

Selling Cars and Catching Gars!

Ask For Donnie Hinkle "West Point Lake Gar Grabber"

My daughter-in-law Julie Monteith on her first Gar fishing trip lands a nice 3-4lb Longnose Gar. I showed Julie the fishing show, O’Neill Outside, featuring Longnose Gar lake guide Terry Smith on the Coosa River weeks before our trip. She remembered Terry showing O’Neill how he uses a hair brush to brush the rest of the nylon from the teeth of a Gar. He told O’Neill he called it "grooming your Gar". So here's Julie grooming her first Gar.