I took a friend of mine out (Chris) to an area I have not fished for several years now, in hopes of getting into some bowfin. This was a pretty nice sized reservoir near where I live and we keyed in on a narrow, but deep channel at the head of the reservoir. The surface was seeing a lot of action from rising fish, many of which were obviously gar, others were harder to identify. There were some very big gar in the area, some of the biggest that I have seen around South Carolina. We were using "black salties" as bait, but for some reason the gar did not seem to respond well to this bait selection. Nearly every take we had the fish would end up spitting the bait after a short run. Chris managed a very large gar which he may have only caught simply because he set the hook so early. I also managed a decent gar by setting the hook quickly, but for the most part there were several misses and many dropped baits... I will probably come back out to this area soon with shad or something I know the gar will take. Chris also caught one nice white catfish.
The large gar that Chris caught had a massive gash in its back and tail which I believe came from being hit by a boat propeller. The gar was still fat and fiesty, so this was an impressive testiment to the toughness that gar have... as I dont believe any other fish could take that and survive. This is the second time I have seen a gar caught with huge propellor scars in it, the first was a small alligator gar my brother caught earlier this summer.
whabam!
Chris was really hoping this was going to be his first bowfin
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