I love shooting gar with the way they appear and disappear without warning.

There are just a ton of gar down there, spotted and shortnose.
It really is a different world from up here by Chicago where some guys have never even seen them, and others talk about them as if they were endangered. I think we shot more gar than carp, and it may have been a 2 to 1 ratio if we could have hit all those skinny suckers.

One big spotted grabbed onto my line in the barrel, and it took me several minutes to get him to let go. I had to get a bit persuasive. He didn't have much left to lose, so he made it interesting for me.