Cumberland Night Report

Fished west side of lake Cumberland from 7pm til about 6am Wed night Thurs morning. No shad came up all night only caught a couple of small stripers trolling deep diving cranks off of points. Water temp was 78-80 degrees. Clear full moon night. The real striper fishermen were putting on the lake as I was pulling out.

Gar came up about 1:00am and were everywhere! I've never seen so many. These ugly things were splashing at the surface and swiming into the boat -which would make my dog bark and me (startled by all this on such a quiet night) almost fall out of my seat!

So when you see the gar like this, do you keep fishing or go somewhere else?

[QUOTE=birdstrike;330849]Fished west side of lake Cumberland from 7pm til
So when you see the gar like this, do you keep fishing or go somewhere else?[/QUOTE]

From my experience when ever I have found gar I have not found stripers. They can be in the same area, one fork in a creek has gar and the other has stripers, but I have never found them together.

I'm not a biologist but a friend of mine who guides for Tarter on cumberland when the gars are rolling stripers as well as bass can go from active to negetive so from his advise we gars are running I look for other water just my opion taken from someone who gets paid to put fish in the boat
[quote=birdstrike;330849]Fished west side of lake Cumberland from 7pm til about 6am Wed night Thurs morning. No shad came up all night only caught a couple of small stripers trolling deep diving cranks off of points. Water temp was 78-80 degrees. Clear full moon night. The real striper fishermen were putting on the lake as I was pulling out.

Gar came up about 1:00am and were everywhere! I've never seen so many. These ugly things were splashing at the surface and swiming into the boat -which would make my dog bark and me (startled by all this on such a quiet night) almost fall out of my seat!

So when you see the gar like this, do you keep fishing or go somewhere else?[/quote]

So when you see the gar like this, do you keep fishing or go somewhere else?[/QUOTE]

Me?.....I keep fishing, but switch from lures to "DEPTH CHARGES".

Want to have some Fun! Tie on a short peice of unravelled bailing twine instead of a hook. It get's caught in the Gars teeth and they can't spit it like a hook. The more they spin the tighter they become.