what do you use to catch gar and carp? for kids entertainment

[coombro]

we'd fish for gar when I lived in louisiana. We take a small treble hook on an 8in steel leader. Put a cork or bobber on it to where the bait was just under water about 8 in. We'd use grass shrimp or cut bait. Minnows will work just cut them up. Put as much meat on the hook as u can. When the bobber disappears dont set the hook. Allow the gar to swim and chew on the bait. Tighten up your line but leave him slack or he will spit it out if he feels the tension. Its a timing thing he has to get the bait to the back of his mouth where its softer so the hook will set. They are a blast to catch and a good fight. For carp I chum the water with rice let them **** on the rice and then toss them a nite crawler

[nonamesleft47]

coombro gave good advice on the gar, I just a crappie hook or small treble and nose hook a live minnow. Use a piano wire leader or just the wire leaders that you get at Walmart and a bobber with about 10 inches of line out. When you see them sulking around or coming up to get air cast close and reel it right up to their nose. Once they take the bait let line out, they'll run for a while and then stop. Let them stop for a while and then set the hook. You'll need pliers and a set of gloves to unhook them. I usually use a piano wire leader so I can just clip the wire and retie a hook but I usually keep them too.

For carp soak some field corn for about a week and then throw it out where you want to fish. Come back the next day and fish over it with cheap canned corn with a #6 baitholder hook and a slip sinker. If you see them mudding around on the lake try casting half a night crawler in front of them and hold on.

[waterdog101]

I never fished for them, with rod and reel. but I know this guy, that goes to this dam in the head waters of laurel lake in july, every year and has a blast catching the big carp, on wheatyballs. made from hamburger meat and cereal.and the gar will rob your limb lines, when catfishing. if they are baited with bluegill. I used to fish for both gar and carp in the spring, when they are showing. using my bow equipped with a reel and line and a barbed arrow. I though that was fun, when I was younger. but I've grown older and don't like killing anything any more.