David Moon holds a monster gar, which was caught by Brendan Handy July 9 at Perry Lake while night fishing. The gar measured 42 inches long and weighed in at 7.5 pounds. Photo by Josh Rouse.
John Abbott holds a largemouth he caught at Lake Perry. Photo by Josh Rouse.
When fishing with John Abbott and David Moon, anything can and probably will happen.
I was reminded of this on July 9, 2011, as Brendan Handy and I went on a night fishing trip with them at Lake Perry, just east of Topeka, KS. We first stopped by Walmart to get a few supplies and then headed out to a spot on the lake by a marina. The spot is a notorious crappie hole, but we only had one crappie on this adventure as they were much deeper than we were fishing.
However, we still had a lot of success fishing in this spot, albeit from a variety of different fish than we were expecting to catch. One species of fish that we caught that was particularly interesting was a gar, which is a long, boney fish with a long beak filled with razor sharp teeth. Definitely not your typical fish, and this was in particular was special because of its size.
I was reminded of this on July 9, 2011, as Brendan Handy and I went on a night fishing trip with them at Lake Perry, just east of Topeka, KS. We first stopped by Walmart to get a few supplies and then headed out to a spot on the lake by a marina. The spot is a notorious crappie hole, but we only had one crappie on this adventure as they were much deeper than we were fishing.
However, we still had a lot of success fishing in this spot, albeit from a variety of different fish than we were expecting to catch. One species of fish that we caught that was particularly interesting was a gar, which is a long, boney fish with a long beak filled with razor sharp teeth. Definitely not your typical fish, and this was in particular was special because of its size.
Brendan Handy holds a gar he caught at Lake Perry. Photo by Josh Rouse.
The gar, which was caught by Brendan Handy TWICE is one evening, was a monster 42 inch fish that weighed in at 7.5 pounds on our scales. That's 3.5 feet long! Though the gar is usually a rather ugly creature, this one was fairly pretty. It had a lot of red coloring, especially in its tail.
John Abbott also pulled in a nice 2-3 pound largemouth bass, and between the four of us we caught a large variety of fish, including gar, bass, crappie and bluegill. John, David and Brendan were using lures while I used worms, which weren't as effective as I'd hoped but still got quite a few bites.
We also saw more gar later on that night swimming near us, but didn't catch any more.
John Abbott also pulled in a nice 2-3 pound largemouth bass, and between the four of us we caught a large variety of fish, including gar, bass, crappie and bluegill. John, David and Brendan were using lures while I used worms, which weren't as effective as I'd hoped but still got quite a few bites.
We also saw more gar later on that night swimming near us, but didn't catch any more.
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