An odd catch while chromie hunting

[vinnimon]

So I was out the other night drifting roe bags for rainbows. I began to retrieve my line and felt a snag, more so like I was caught on a twig. I pulled it loose and began dragging it in. Within 10 yards of me my line was up in the air with a Gar pike at the hook end.

Perhaps he was he was at the wrong place at the wrong time having the line tangle up in his snout, or he went for it

Has anyone ever had a gar pike hit a roe bag before?

[Twocoda]

nope but Ill switch back to using roe if thats what it take for me to catch one...

[kemper]

Never a gar pike...

 

Bass, Northern Pike, Carp, and hulk sized creek chub have all had a snack on my roe bags at one point or another though

[Bondar]

Gar with pretty much hit anything that is moving from what I understand

[ecmilley]

never a gar gots lots of walleyes over the year out of bowmanville and ganaraska rivers as well as pike bass wgsf sunnys

[Rich]

What the heck is a gar doing in frigid steelhead water? And feeding? Very weird. Gar like very, very warm water.

[T.Barry]

I caught one in the Niagara before float fishing roe.

[vinnimon]

What the heck is a gar doing in frigid steelhead water? And feeding? Very weird. Gar like very, very warm water.

They are common in this particular water body, but odd to see them at this time of year.