gars vs asian carp

Use the shad as bait? That's what they're eating

Or just throw a stickbait/broke back minnow. Gar are caught in the top of the water column typically. They come up for air and will react to basically anything moving on the surface from my experience

I hate fricking gar,one almost drown me one time (it's a horror story) death to them all!

I was diving on The Tennessee River,and had a net bag around my neck ,half full of mussels,probably about 30 LBS. I was in about 9 feet of water,crawling along the bottom in some grass,and he was just laying there,and I didn't see him.

he got his snout caught in my bag and started fighting,he knocked my regulator out of my mouth,and knocked off my brand new mask,that thing cost about 75 bucks at the time.

He was a big gar and was beating the hell out of me,and I took some water. I dropped my weight belt,and tried to get the bag off of me,but he was twisting and fighting,and twisting the rope handle of the bag around my neck.

I managed to get back up and get to the ladder of my boat and got in, he was still beating the shite out of me,but once I was in the boat,he died a very bloody death.

I lost my brand new mask though.

I don't do that work anymore,but I really miss making a living that way. I did change to the smaller hole bags,that were kind of like the old mesh jerseys,but they ripped easy on rocks and roots and stuff,and had to patch them every damn day.

I have caught a ton on unintentional gar in the Pierre part area fly fishing with a bream killer fly. The either hit the fly or the float

Last one we caught.

6'1" and at least 100lbs. We had a tape but no scale. That that dude was heavy. Alot of roasts came off of him.

Put a bigger shad on a treble hook about a foot under a cork. Let them run with it for awhile. I've caught a few this way

The biggest I've caught was around 25 lbs but I used a 3-4" piece of cut up white trout.

The size probably doesn't matter too much as all long it's not way too big.