I got 2 carp and a buff this morning.

I was trying to get mainly carp by stalking up to them in my waders.
The carp were hanging further out than the buffs were. In fact, I was able to get within just a few feet of the buffs serveral times to take 20 and 30 foot shots at the carp.

I was 3 fish for 4 shots until I made the mistake of trying to shoot rolling gar in waist deep water. They were only visible for about a 1/2 second until they dove again. I only took a few shots at them. Ididn't get any,but I did take the opportunity to study how they move since they were often within 20 feet of me. If I was somehow able to bag every gar I saw today, I'd be needing some more stringers since there were well over 100.

Nice, were you north of Blodgett Rd. when you were seeing the gar?

Nope.
When I said "Des Plaines", I meant the river, not the conservation area.
I was back at Buffalo City.

The scene was different this time though with the gar being in there in such great numbers when you had only seen one there before. THey were letting some serious water over the dam, and I wonder if that had anything to do with it.

The water level started out about where we've seen it before at 5:30am, but had raised 5 inches in about 2 and 1/2 hours.

It was quite cool to be in the water with gar rolling so close by. I saw all sizes from about 8 inches to well over 3 feet.

By the way Fishpoint, I have only seen gar South of Blodgett road at DPCA. Most are 12 inchers, and I've only seen a handful in there.

North of Blodgett, I've only seen signs of carp in the mud.

I've seen the remains of gar on the shorenorth of Blodgett and I saw a few decent ones swimming there too. I've only seen themin a little area closest to the road itself. I shot a few largemouth buffalo and a lot of commons north of Blodgett Rd. but you have to walk about1/4 mile past the iron bridge before you start seeing fish in any numbers.