Gar have me sooooooo depressed !

[Ratdog]

Well ok I went down to da vermilion today. Was running from da old ladys. Took a extra dose of meds to do this. And I started out like always Cain poll and worms from backyard . Cought my perch for bait then moterd to my gar spot.
Thats when it started down hill. I hooked up on a six footer. Jus about broke poll. He was hooked on the underside of the Niddle nose and fought for a while he jumped and did tail dances was real cool. Got gaff out when leader hit spool and gaffes him. Big mistake he exploded not in a good way. Hook got pulled and he flipped off gaff I fell over in gust the right direction so I got a second shot with gaff and stuck him again. Lordy dat guy went berserk flipped off gaff again and torpedoed away. I saw him 4 more times and he seemed to recover.

I rebated and cought a cat with one of my last two perch. Da bugger swallowed it hole. So I cut him open an saved my live bate and tossed um in .i hooked up again with two more got one to boat and lost the other 30 seconds into fight.
Ran out of bate so went back to da worms.

Went back to spot with two more perch. Hooked up again on both perch and lost both fish. All the gar were 5 pluss feet long one six or more eye was 3 inch and wale big.

I also missed a cat fish 3 foot long and bigger than pooyie moms dog. Big.


So this is the deal how I hook one dem needle nose gar and get um in boat. You see I'm soo p- oed I can't sit still I missed about 40 foot of gar meat.

I got 12 foot 125 lb leaders and 6/0 salt water hooks .i even riged a trail hook flopping around no bate about 2 inch below bate.

I do know I need a gaff with barb and about 6 inch tip to shank the one I get now is 4 inch no barb.

Gee I'm so pissed so what I do can you guys help.

My second year doing the gar and last year was a fail too nothing above 3 foot long.