Gar pike

Jigger77 · 09-19-2004, 01:16 PM

Here a pic of a gar pike I snagged with a husky jerk. They're everywhere in this back bay of this lake. Strange fish...Put up a pretty good fight though. It jumped completely out of the water about 3 times.
Gar picture

Carpmaster · 09-19-2004, 07:17 PM

They are more fun to shoot!!!

Jigger77 · 09-20-2004, 01:01 PM

Yeah, probably a lot easier too...

I bet bowhunting for them would be something too.

PAHUNTER21 · 09-20-2004, 10:51 PM

Is a garpike a hybrid of some sort? Looks like a regular gar to me..

Jigger77 · 09-21-2004, 01:48 PM

I think were talking about the same fish. Maybe it's just that we give them different names locally. Kinda like pickerel and walleye...

young_gun · 09-21-2004, 11:24 PM

ah, i hate those darn fish, they always seem to start bitin when we are catfishing and then we dont catch anymore cats. makes my brothere and i mad

AJ52 · 09-29-2004, 10:36 PM

Jigger,

Garpike must be local term for Gar. Gar is a Gar is a miserable no good prehistoric fish. Gar,Pickerel,Walleye are all seperate species. Biggest fresh water fish I've ever seen was a Gar.

gopher slayer · 09-30-2004, 07:15 PM

pickerel and walleye are different fish.

RustyOlRanger4x4 · 10-01-2004, 08:05 PM

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ORIGINAL: AJ52

Jigger,

Garpike must be local term for Gar. Gar is a Gar is a miserable no good prehistoric fish. Gar,Pickerel,Walleye are all seperate species. Biggest fresh water fish I've ever seen was a Gar.

we call them allagator gar down here and some people just call them allagator fish

AJ52 · 10-04-2004, 01:18 PM

Rusty,

Yep - Alligator gar. There is another type of gar out there,but can't remember? One is bigger than the other. Nasty fish and - terrible in spring when they spawn, eat everthing in their wake,muck up bass and other spawning grounds (like carp).