Posted By: Rockportreds
Unusual catch in Rockport! - 05/05/19 03:59 AM
This guy surfaced near the boat today and we were able to land him on light tackle ! CPR as well
Unusual catch in Rockport!
Posted By: Gitter Done
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 05/05/19 05:08 PM
WOW! 
Great Catch!
Great Catch!
Posted By: banker-always fishing
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 05/07/19 04:02 AM
Rare catch for sure. 
Posted By: doctorb
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 05/07/19 02:16 PM
They're out there. I caught a huge one in Trinity Bay and one about the size in the picture in Shoalwater Bay.
Posted By: J.P. Greeson
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 05/07/19 03:28 PM
I caught one right at Redfish Point many years ago.
Posted By: eyeball
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/05/19 04:17 AM
Sheesh. They eat tons of good stuff. If you only knew. 
Posted By: ChanceHuiet
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/06/19 06:19 PM
They EVERYWHERE in sabine
Posted By: ReelSlow
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/08/19 12:46 PM
Forgive my ignorance, is that a gar?
Posted By: Cast
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/08/19 01:48 PM
Looks like alligator gar.
Posted By: Jerry713
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/08/19 02:17 PM
They're all over. Especially in the back lakes/marshes round Rockport/Aransas
Posted By: ADDICTED 2 FISHING
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/09/19 07:10 PM
Nice! Fun to catch for sure!
Posted By: Osbornfishing
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/10/19 08:14 PM
Nice fish.
Posted By: Pot licker
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/11/19 09:41 PM
It sure is pretty! WTG!
Posted By: eyeball
Re: Unusual catch in Rockport! - 07/29/19 06:15 PM
Originally Posted by eyeball
Sheesh. They eat tons of good stuff. If you only knew.
Yeah, only thousands of specks and reds though.
You should have seen the huge schools of3-6 lb bass on Rayburn in the 70s when commercial fishermen netted for buffalo to sell to Mexico. The nets killed a lot of the big gator gar and the fishing was amazing until BASS groups feared a few big bass would get caught and raised hell stopping the practice.
Bass fishing on Rayburn hasn't been great since. Big gar eat big bass like kids eating Lays potato chips.
I used to find big areas of big bass and stay on them a couple of weeks in the summer. Now if you find a dig school they move on in a day or to running from the big schools of gar.