West Point Lake - First Gar Of The 2010 Season

West Point Lake - First Gar Of The 2010 Season

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After a 3 hour search through heavy stain and a thick film of pollen covering over the water surface of West Point Lake, I was able to manage catching my first Longnose Gar of the 2010 Season!

It was a rather uneventful day, April 6th, 2010, for the most part with sight fishing being a virtually impossible task. Water temperatures were from 68 to 71 degrees, quite cool for figuring to see any top water activity so I cast all day and strained my eyes looking through water chop and pollen. I worked my way up river to an early season hot zone where I caught my first Gar April 26th of 2009. That was as far as I was willing to travel on a weekday, the first time taking my boat out since October 2009. The good news is that my boat is running great.

After a few passes over the point and down the side of the peninsula I felt I had hit a snag and tried to pull of it when I saw a flash by my lure. I had hung a Gar and thought it was some brush, so I pulled my hat down close over my glasses and started looking much harder. I then saw one Gar swim by me while my lure was in the water, not the one I was looking for though.

After a few more passes I caught this little dude on a blind cast which was enough for me to know that the males were beginning to show up to prepare for big mama to glide in and drop her eggs which is still several weeks away.

As the water begins to warm on the coming weeks, I will slowly begin to find that Big Mama Gar lurking in slightly deeper water getting ready to move in, and that my friends is when you have the chance to catch the Gar of a lifetime and I can't wait for that firecracker hot early May to mid-June action on West Point Lake!