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If braid is not involved, a triple surgeons knot is my go to for connecting dissimilar diameter lines . Quick and easy to tie as well

@FryDog62, eagle claw 6 lb mono. I did have a gar bite thru it but they can bite thru anything. I absolutely love gar fishing, they fight like crazy. I’ve had them cartwheel, tailwalk, and nearly dump a spool off 65 braid of a 6000c ambassadeur reel the hard pard is holding them without being murdered

And by even I mean im usually a couple Dozen fish behind…..

Well I don’t catch many 20” largemouth so we are even 😂

4th and 16…… come on bungles. Of course it was a penalty not an actual play made but they did commit it

Fluke , tube, finesse worm on jighead. Also sometimes a bug swimbait will trigger them

Hooked into a nice smallmouth while gar fishing with a fluke! Low tech video but captured a nice jump on film.

My wife wanted to take some stuff down to the lakehouse and also wanted me to chop some firewood. Got a decent amount of wood stacked and figured I’d try to catch a gar in the kayak. Right before dropping the boat in, my wife pointed out a bald eagle fishing nearby, always a good sign. I only had one spinning rod with 6 lb line and a small selection of lures so I tied on a fluke. First throw a gar destroyed it on the surface and took me for a long ride then finally bit thru the line. Got rigged back up with my last fluke and casted to several more gar, lost another solid hookup. I got bored waiting on more to surface so I blind casted up on a shallow flat and something ate the fluke under the surface a little. It took off and loaded the rod and started towing my kayak, figured I had a big gar. Well then I saw it, a big smallmouth. Against my better judgment I got my phone up and running a video and leaned it against my stomach 😂 got some good video of a jump, the rest was quite janky but still glad I got it. The fish finally tired out and I got it into the kayak. I didn’t have a measuring tape or scale but I measured it laying next to my rod and I think it was between 20” and 20.5” , sure seemed larger but still a nice fish and not as skinny as they usually are, I’d almost put it at 4 lbs or better. I’ll post a separate report with the whole video , kind of long but some might enjoy it.

That has actually already happened

I love catching fish on a drop shot, beats getting skunked on a spinnerbait

I’m sure you’ve heard, now on IR and going to miss 4 weeks

I say that too, and they don’t

Apparently not! He’s out for week 2 also

Sheetrock would be much easier on my reels than what I normally smash them against

I know he got destroyed once when playing at Alabama, broke his hip and also looked like his bell got rung badly. They never reported a concussion for that instance but it sure looked like one

I always eat too much and end up laying on the floor saying “oh dear I’ve eaten too much.” My aunt would always say “yeah but it feels good, doesn’t it” 😂 They grew up hungrier than we did so being full was a blessing

I throw jigs and worms and jigworms on all my rods

Nice!!!

My wife had a bumper sticker that said “fish naked” on her old car. I drive that car to work now so I scraped it off 😂 Not sure if it would be a fashion violation or not so I just play it safe

I think only one person would ever notice…. 🤣