Well we went fishing for a few hours this morning, and got quite a show. The gar are spawning and were giving us quite a spectacular show. 10-15 large ones would be huddled together almost at the shore, fins flopping all over the place. Some were as long as 5 feet. They were just incredible to watch. The fishing wasn't TOO bad either. Catfish were feeding getting ready for the spawn, and we must have landed at least 5 each. They were all pretty fat, weighting in at around 3-5 lbs each... not monsters, but fun to catch. We don't eat catfish unless they are farm raised, so it was all catch and release, and none died, so it was a pretty good day.

On a completely different note, my veggie garden is really starting to come together now. I planted the corn yesterday, and planted a new tomato and bell pepper plants today. I have squash and carrots and watermellons and cantalope and pumpkins all comming up. The potato's have outgrown the strawberries, and the sugar-snap peas are growing at an incredible rate. I'm pretty excited about it. The soil still sucks there, but next year I'll buy a roto-tiller to till it up good with some more amendments. For this year I'm just keeping up with fertilizing. Hopefully next year I won't have to, esp if I can till in a good amt. of compost. The biggest thing will just be breaking up the clumps of clay.

I love seeing big gar they are one of the coolest fish I reckon :)

I like ot go fishing with my dad sometimes. We go to a place called Santee Cooper lake,South Carolina, it has a lot of monster catfish (Hard to catch thougth). Since I'm still short and not very big I like to tie myself to the boat so they don't pull me in, cause there are aligators in the lake. The gar there grow to big sized to, my biggest one was 4 foot and something inches. At that lake most people who catch the gars just kill them and leave them there on the shore to die. Thats just wrong. :angry:

You can always start a native tank! Your 4 foot gar in your 4 foot tank. Quite the centerpiece, haha!

I caught the gar about two years ago, maybe he's stilll swimming around somewhere. But alot bigger. I have 2 native tanks one with bluegill and the other with bass and crappie. Little bitty ones thougth not big enough to anyone.
Good Idea though :)

That's VERY wrong in aligator waters... nothing like feeding the aligators and training them to cozy up to fishermen.

I caught ahold of about an 8 foot aligator at my brother's place last year. She liked my lighted bobber, never got hooked. I just happened to be using my saltwater gear, so I was able to crank on her all the way up to the dock, where she sank to the bottom, and I didn't really feel like getting her off the bottom. Finally she came up for a breath and opened her mouth and out came the bobber. I still have it with the teeth holes where she bit through it, I keep it as a trophy. As much fun as it was, I was scared like you wouldn't believe when I got her up to the dock... I backed way up on the dock in case she decided to charge or something. But it all ended well, she wasn't hurt and neither was I.

I wouldn't even let it get close to to me, I don't need to know if I taste good or not. Last time I told my brother to go and wrestle it like the Crocodile Hunter he laughed then he tried to throw me into the water.

HA HA, well on land I think I could hold my own, but in the water would be another story.

Lol that would have been heaps cool

Alligators like marshmallows! :lol:

Wow, I didn't know that they liked marshmallows. Maybe I'll try that one day :D