GAR

[Phone]

All,

More snow and bad weather. To amuse myself I was thumbing through old "stuff" 

She was a beauty but not the largest by a long shot

Phone

[chesters1]

I can see a chap inspecting his bait!?

[Cameraman]

If that's the live bait what's the quarry?

[chesters1]

  On 1/25/2020 at 10:46 AM, Cameraman said:

If that's the live bait what's the quarry?

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A really deep hole just behind that tree

[Tigger]

I think i'd need to step up my float gear for that Phone!

[Phone]

All,

My largest and one of maybe half a dozen alligator gar was 80 lb+.  Tigger, you won't need a float. The terminal gear is as follows.  Woman's nylon stocking - whole chicken (always been a argument which is best - feathers or no feathers). The nylon stocking with chicken is secured to the mainline.  The "hook" is the stocking.  The gar's teeth are such that they cannot go "backward" so once hung-up they are doomed.  Some guys (probably from British stock) like to use a fiddly protective leader.  Quarter inch cotton rope was the "go to" fix.

Phone

Even since my day - alligator gar's status among fish has risen.  The remaining stock is pretty well protected

[Cameraman]

Really?

[Tigger]

  On 1/26/2020 at 1:12 AM, Phone said:

All,

My largest and one of maybe half a dozen alligator gar was 80 lb+.  Tigger, you won't need a float. The terminal gear is as follows.  Woman's nylon stocking - whole chicken (always been a argument which is best - feathers or no feathers). The nylon stocking with chicken is secured to the mainline.  The "hook" is the stocking.  The gar's teeth are such that they cannot go "backward" so once hung-up they are doomed.  Some guys (probably from British stock) like to use a fiddly protective leader.  Quarter inch cotton rope was the "go to" fix.

Phone

Even since my day - alligator gar's status among fish has risen.  The remaining stock is pretty well protected

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I know of people who use a similar method to catch eels, obciously a scaled down set up!

No doubt you would catch pike using that kind'a method/set up.

 

Just rememberd, i'm sure the TV presenter on a programme called "river monsters" over here in the uk used the method to catch eels in Japan.

Edited January 26, 2020 by Tigger

[gozzer]

  On 1/26/2020 at 11:24 AM, Tigger said:

 

I know of people who use a similar method to catch eels, obciously a scaled down set up!

No doubt you would catch pike using that kind'a method/set up.

 

Just rememberd, i'm sure the TV presenter on a programme called "river monsters" over here in the uk used the method to catch eels in Japan.

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Back in the day, I seem to remember reading of eels being caught by 'dibbing'(?). This was threading worms onto wool, no hook, and when the eels teeth got caught in the wool they were lifted out. Maybe other members 'of a certain age' can confirm its true, or is my mind playing tricks?

John.

PS, just done a quick search and it was 'babbing' for eels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/95/a9036795.shtml

 

Edited January 26, 2020 by gozzer

[chesters1]

Yes catching them on wool was a favourite closed season pastime in the miltary canal in my " yoof" now i doubt theres enough eels left to make it worthwhile i havnt caught even a bootlace for 40 years!