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Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL #3904695 09/07/09 01:29 PM
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Wanted to pass this along. When out on LL yesterday and passing mid-lake south of the new bridge, I thought I saw a huge school of large strippers surfacing. I grabbed my slab casting rod and decided to make a few casts. The darndest thing, these fish were long and after a close look, they were Gar about 2-4' long! Maybe a hundred or so. Not sure what type of gar however.

This was new to me and I wonder if anyone else has ever seen this?


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Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: Lund17.5] #3904740 09/07/09 01:52 PM
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Spawning around females. Saw it at Lake Aquilla last month.




Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: Lund17.5] #3904769 09/07/09 02:13 PM
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Thanks. I really did a double take (maybe a triple take) on this one.


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Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: Lund17.5] #3904887 09/07/09 03:00 PM
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Rolling gar , yep it's September. You should see em in the river they go nuts this time of year.

Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: Brian Spagnola] #3905017 09/07/09 03:48 PM
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they've been over there the past weeks now. Big ones like you said. It is a sight to see thats for sure.

Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: FishFinder Frank] #3905110 09/07/09 04:25 PM
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They are rolling like crazy..huge son's of guns..

Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: storm0348] #3907181 09/08/09 12:27 PM
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I have seen this on Grapevine. More like feeding then rolling. You hear the splashing and think its sand base only to find their long noses sticking up.


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Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: Lund17.5] #3908134 09/08/09 04:49 PM
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I saw a lot of them rolling around Sat on the Lake Dallas side. Proved a myth wrong: gar don't scare away crappie. Caught some nice keepers while gar were within 20 feet of either side of the boat.

Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: dbourbon] #3908273 09/08/09 05:22 PM
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Guess it's time for me to pull out my waders again. Good report.


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Re: Unusual sight while crappie fishing on LL [Re: Fishin' Nut] #3908972 09/08/09 08:33 PM
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i fished for them the other week. had serveral on but didnt land any. there are some bigger ones in the mix. they hang out there. i have seen this on many lakes in our area. RC has the biggest ive seen in a lake.


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