Saltwater Gar?

To the South Beaufort / Hilton Head
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Drug this dude up on the bank today. Easily about 24 inches in length. Sorry about the mud but I wasn’t inclined to grab it.

I grew up in Florida where we had some bodacious sized freshwater gar, but was not aware there was a salt water version.

I was in a salt water creek that branches right off the Broad River at PI so there is no brackish element here.

No Reds or Sheepshead today. Wife even saw a Red nosing around but would not take the fiddlers. Too many Stingrays to try to use shrimp on the bottom. I did catch and release about a three foot black tip that grabbed one of my live menhaden. Walked out with four Blues that ranged from 10-14 inches that are going on my smoker tomorrow. I love smoked Blue fishes cuz they are delicious. :smiley:

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i swear… them and roaches will be the only thing left on the earth… from south fl and i used to catch them in fresh, brackish ad salt all the time…

21’ Triumph T-Top 150

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Caught about a 3 footer in a cast net in the upper Broad some years back. Took me 30 minutes to get the (**() thing out of the net with the mono tangled in it’s teeth and around the scales. They are very common in the brackish and salt waters.

Seafox 246 w 300 Yamaha

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That’s one of the fish we like to watch at night on the dock across from Sam’s Point. There are typically a couple that hang out under the security light.

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Got a friend on Edisto who would rather eat them than flounder!