Got a new personal best gar.

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05-12-2009 | 08:09 PM

Bulzeye

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Got a new personal best gar.

While wading the DesPlaines River today near Joliet, I only scored a single fish, but it was my best gar to date. Go Me !

41" Longnose, 6# 12oz
It doesn't even qualifyas a club citation fish, but it's a good one for little old me.
A mere 20 more pounds and I would have had the state record.

05-13-2009 | 03:07 AM

deer_predator

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RE: Got a new personal best gar.

NICE GAR!!!!.....Congrats....

05-13-2009 | 03:08 AM

slim23

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RE: Got a new personal best gar.

congrats! gota love longnose. everyone of those is special to me. just dont get to kill very many of them

05-13-2009 | 04:45 AM

bowman15

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RE: Got a new personal best gar.

You gotta try to come up here Slim. That's pretty much all we have is longnose.

05-13-2009 | 06:50 AM

scribe917k

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Thats a nice gar. I have yet to shoot a longnose. About 2 weeks ago I had a personal best shortnose. 4 more ounces and I would have beat the state record. It was 10lbs 2 ounces. I wouldnt mind getting into some longnose though. Where you shooting them at?

05-13-2009 | 11:14 AM

buffhntr

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go to the ohio river in late july and august

05-13-2009 | 12:25 PM

HNI_Christine

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RE: Got a new personal best gar.

Rend Lake has nice longnose.

Chris, did you get the gar filleted out without losing any important appendages?

05-13-2009 | 09:07 PM

carpsniper

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RE: Got a new personal best gar.

Way to go Bulz. Long nose are awesome fun to shoot.

05-14-2009 | 07:07 PM

carptracker

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RE: Got a new personal best gar.

Way to go. Nice fish. I've never shot one that big yet, but I have several 50+ inchers on my data sheets. The Lamine River is a good place to go for big gar.