Re: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation

[Charlie Bonner]

Having actually caught these things on big yellow ski rope flies before I 
can say that you can easily remove the cord from the gar's teeth and they 
will survive just fine. These things are possible one of the toughest fish 
known to man. We shot one bow fishing one night and he flopped out of the 
boat complete through and through shot, two weeks latter same fish same spot 
shot him again and it was just a wound almost a scar in the short two week 
period.  We always did most of our gar fishing with fly rod  in the summer 
when the fish would porpoise for oxygen, they are really fun to catch and 
challenging. They are decent table fare as well when prepared correctly.



From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:01:30 -0700

Solution- try out a few things.

DonO


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From: "Reuven Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation


> You  could octopus a skirt with a flashabou or two of the thick knitting
> wool and it 'should' be easy enough to untangle. No??
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of DonO
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2005 9:45 AM
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> Catching garfish is obviously C&R, so it would be best to use something
that
> can be cut free from the gar's teeth, so he doesn't starve to death.
>
> DonO
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reuven Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:37 PM
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> > Couldn't 'you just use a cheap bundle of wool for the skirt? take two
> > seconds to tie up, cheap, colourful......
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of Allen,Ginger M
> > Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2005 3:10 AM
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> > Subject: RE: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
> >
> > Some of our locals use a hunk of braided poly cord (macrame cord) 
white
> > or yellow for the fly body (kind of like a long body baracuda fly) the
> > Garfish get their teeth trapped in the cord.
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>