Toothy critters at bluegrass 4/10

4 bass of no real size. But I did get back deep into a cove and saw some movement at the back. I picked up the crank and drug it right through. Set the hook on what I thought was a good bass. Turned out we got into a huge school of gar. We caught 13 gar from 2 to 5#. My son swore these were some sort of trophy fish and was rather upset I started killing them. Hehe. Poor little guy. Well atleast he had fun catching worthless gar. I had no idea they would school up like that right on the bank. Loon is full of carp and gar. Someone get the bow out and go to town on them! There were huge carp mudding up the bank every where. Here's a picture of the smallest we caught.

[url]http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/JustinMidd/38dbe31f.jpg[/url]

Those gar come up from the Ohio River when Pigeon Creek and Bluegrass Creek floods into Bluegrass Pits. Water temperature where they caught their fish was 65 deg F. It was on the down wind side of Otter Pit.

I played around more than I fished. Can't really get serious about fishing right now for some reason. But I did enjoy getting out in the sun.

It's always a good day when out on the water. I did catch about 6 small crappie but threw them away. Nothing over 5 or 6 " long. All babies. And they stole a lot of my darn minnows. With the price of minnows going from $3 per 1/2 lb to $7 per 1/2 lb those minnows are getting more expensive. Cost of gas has gone up so the price of minnows went up too.

I have been using about 2 gallons of gas in the boat just motoring around these pits for a few hours.

I fished a few hours today and only caught a few small crappie. But I talked to some folks who said they caught some nice crappie to keep.

[QUOTE=JustinM;409703]4 bass of no real size. But I did get back deep into a cove and saw some movement at the back. I picked up the crank and drug it right through. Set the hook on what I thought was a good bass. Turned out we got into a huge school of gar. We caught 13 gar from 2 to 5#. My son swore these were some sort of trophy fish and was rather upset I started killing them. Hehe. Poor little guy. Well atleast he had fun catching worthless gar. I had no idea they would school up like that right on the bank. Loon is full of carp and gar. Someone get the bow out and go to town on them! There were huge carp mudding up the bank every where. Here's a picture of the smallest we caught.

[URL]http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/JustinMidd/38dbe31f.jpg[/URL][/QUOTE]

I took your advise and fished loon Friday the 9th, had a blast caught alot of fish, no keepers, but did catch one on a bed and used a swimbait for the first time and caught one fish, fished bluegrass sat and caught alot of fish, biggest 3 were 16 inches. my buddy caught 5 over 19 inches with the biggest 5lb 4oz. i watch him caught 3 of them, because i got tired of his girlfriend calling me to come over and look at his big bass. fished sunday too, but had a tough time

Not trying to start anything, and have never fished bluegrass, but was just curious why you decided to kill them? Are they trying to eradicate them out of that water?


[QUOTE=JustinM;409703]4 bass of no real size. But I did get back deep into a cove and saw some movement at the back. I picked up the crank and drug it right through. Set the hook on what I thought was a good bass. Turned out we got into a huge school of gar. We caught 13 gar from 2 to 5#. My son swore these were some sort of trophy fish and was rather upset I started killing them. Hehe. Poor little guy. Well atleast he had fun catching worthless gar. I had no idea they would school up like that right on the bank. Loon is full of carp and gar. Someone get the bow out and go to town on them! There were huge carp mudding up the bank every where. Here's a picture of the smallest we caught.

[URL]http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/JustinMidd/38dbe31f.jpg[/URL][/QUOTE]

I've always killed gar. I've seen two lakes that used to have good fish just over run with them. To me I'd rather have the bass/bluegil compared to gar.

[QUOTE=JustinM;409905]I've always killed gar. I've seen two lakes that used to have good fish just over run with them. To me I'd rather have the bass/bluegil compared to gar.[/QUOTE]

everyone i know does this too.

Kentucky recently started stocking Alligator Gar in the Ohio River. These can get 6 feet and weigh well over 100 pounds.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPVNS1ZZ78[/url]

[QUOTE=Hoosier Hunter;409911]Kentucky recently started stocking Alligator Gar in the Ohio River. These can get 6 feet and weigh well over 100 pounds.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPVNS1ZZ78[/url][/QUOTE]

Great.....

[QUOTE=Hoosier Hunter;409911]Kentucky recently started stocking Alligator Gar in the Ohio River. These can get 6 feet and weigh well over 100 pounds.

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPVNS1ZZ78[/URL][/QUOTE]


Hope no one confuses the gar with the Muskys in Loon and Blue Grass pits. Not worried about the posters here, some of the shore fishing people that leave messes don't appear to know the difference between a crappie and a catfish.