re: Any of you fish on Blind river - what's the fishing like there?

Does it have a lot of Gar? Every river or lake I’ve fished that had a ton of gar was hard to catch bass or panfish.

It’s possible but you have to fish it a lot and find the hot spots where bass or crappie congregate in schools. Populations of sport fish is usually lower because the Gar do a number on them when they’re young. Had a 7 mile long lake near where I grew up like this. Used to be part of a small river. Full of gigantic Gar, ones that when you ran one over it would rip the tiller handle out of your hand and you’d think you hit a stump until a 6 foot Gar floated up. But anyways never caught panfish out of that lake. Caught a lot of bass but took months of fishing it every day after school to find them. They’d only bite in summer when water cleared up and it was 90 degrees or hotter. Never could catch any during spawn season. And lake had 4-5 spots you could catch 20 3-5lb bass in an hour anytime you went in the heat of summer. You never could catch a single fish anywhere else on the lake any time of year. Weird lake.

Could bow fish or catch all the gar you wanted on a crankbait down by the spillway though

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I think the biggest challenge with Blind river is it needs some flow. Most of it is stagnant water.

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Wonder if it’s got anything to do with the sheer SF of props going through there fro boats that are way too big and way too expensive to be on that river?

I wouldn’t go out on anything small.