How do you get them off the rope? Or do you just cut it and throw them back with their jaw wired shut?

Gar balls? You love the taste of gar balls and like to out them in your mouth!?

What are you... a gay fish!?

There is an argument that all "Reservoirs" in Texas are not natural, so the fish within them are also technically not natural. So, there are gar living in parts of watersheds now that they never would have naturally so we shouldn't feel too bad about eliminating them from these artificial habitats. lol.

That said, gar get a bad rap. They are very cool. They've been found in fossils over 100 million years old, they can breathe air, they have the same intestine design as sharks, paddlefish and sturgeon, and the alligators get huge. One of my earliest memories from fishing with dad as a tiny kid was seeing an alligator gar that seemed, at the time, nearly the length of our bass boat swim underneath us.

As with everything, they can get overly abundant and take food away from other sportfish. In balance, they can help control other large nuisance species and add a cool node to the fish community. Much respect to the humble gar.

Once out of the water you can get them freed easy enough with a pair of needle nosed pliers.
Get it? Needle nosed pliers to free needle nosed gar?
Not hard at all.

They’re natural to the rivers and creeks that were dammed to make the reservoirs.

beat them all in the head, just like that…

While there’s no Trinity monsters where I reside, the gator gars that are here get pretty sizable-(4’-7’)When the tide moves in or out, I always see some rolling. Catch speckled trout on topwaters right next to them lol

Alligator or Longnose/needle nose gar?

Longnose, I don't know of any alligator gar in there. Millions of them four feet long and bigger.

Gar are an awsome fly rod, sight casting fish. You can catch them on flies with a small hook diameter. Just like Tarpon, the hook up ratio isn't very high but that's part of it. Also, just like Tarpon, they jump when hooked. This make for some exciting hook sets even when the fish throws the fly - just like Tarpon. They really are very cool fish and I think you should at least give them a try before writing them off completely.

Nice!

Because you can’t just killing stuff you don’t like.

Kill it all, if it breathes, it needs killing.

I'm not mad at the gars, they are like the squirrel sanctuary of the rivers and lakes.