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 Originally Posted by JustinM View Post
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.

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