Alligator Gar - Kirkland's Guide Service, TX

Kirkland's Guide Service provides the rare combination of location and experience that will most likely lead you to the gar of a lifetime.

Fully supporting catch and release gar fishing is experienced gar guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland. Kirk fishes the storied waters of the Trinity River and Lake Livingston, but will go anywhere in Texas for monster alligator gar. He has over 15 years of experience fishing for 'gators; the last 10 being exclusively catch and release. As of this writing, Kirk can boast a 100% success rate; no client has gone home without a gar. Kirk also has experience guiding international anglers.
Capt. Kirk Kirkland, Kirkland's Guide Service

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Alligator Gar - Dawson Hefner, Texas Megafish Adventures, TX

My name is Dawson Hefner and Texas Megafish Adventures is my guide service targeting the largest species in Texas, primarily alligator gar and smallmouth buffalo. If you are looking for a truly unique angling experience then you have found the place. Alligator gar are the biggest freshwater fish in Texas, and I can put you in position to hook up with the one of these prehistoric monsters. If the heat of the summer is not your pleasure; then in the winter time why not try an extended smallmouth buffalo session? Smallmouth buffalo are the most under realized sport fish in the state, having the potential to reach sizes over 100 pounds yet very few people target them and even less can do so effectively. If you are looking for a battle in the heat of summer with an alligator gar you will never forget or you want relaxing winter session targeting smallmouth buffalo I offer you my services, please browse my pictures and do not hesitate to contact me for more information. All trophy fish landed will be released from both species.
Texas Megafish Adventures

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Alligator Gar - Bubba Bedre, Garzilla Guide Service, TX

I have been guiding for alligator gar for five years. I've got to admit I started out as a bowfishing guide and quickly earned the reputation as the best. I took what I learned from hunting gar, how to find them etc., and now only practice catch and release alligator gar FISHING trips. I support catch and release and protecting the future of alligator gar. I use only the best and my motto is "quality not quantity" I have a 100% success rate on catching alligator gar over 5ft per trip. I will fish from daylight tell dark or longer. Your trip Is "our VACATION". I am asking the Gar Anglers Sporting Society to overlook my past and recognize me as a catch and release guide. Thanks.
Bubba Bedre
Garzilla Guide Service

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Longnose Gar - 'Garman Jack' Barnett, Lake Lanier, GA

The Jack-of-All-Trades, Jack Barnett guides for longnose gar on Atlanta's Lake Lanier. Very much like the gar, Jack is a fascinating old-timer. A printer by trade, Jack uses his talent to produce beautiful, unique fish prints in the Japanese style of gyotaku. Jack has spent over 10 years developing his Jack's Original Gar Lure. He provides the lures, tackle and knowledge needed for his clients, some from as far away as Germany, to land thrashing, monstrous longnose.
www.garmanjack.net

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Longnose Gar - Donnie Hinkle, West Point Lake GA

Schedule A Guide Trip Today For An Experience You Won't Soon Forget!!! Have you ever caught a big Longnose Gar before? If you haven't you are missing out on and outrageously exciting fishing event for sure. Longnose Gar pull like a racehorse with long line stripping runs, they make huge athletic jumps into the air, and guess what, the thrill ain't over until you release it unharmed to fight again. You see, you just never know what they're going to do, either in the water or in your boat!!! It's not for the meek and a challenge of a lifetime for those who are up to it. Send me an email at dhink256@charter.net or call my cell phone at (706) 333-3876 to set a date for a fishing event you won't soon forget!!!
Donnie Hinkle
West Point Lake Gar Grabbers
West Point Lake Gar Guide

www.westpointlakegargrabbers.blogspot.com

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Longnose Gar - Drew Price, Lake Champlain, VT

GASSman,
I am a gar addict from Vermont. I fish for and guide for longnose gar on Lake Champlain. As you probably know there is a good population of gar in the lake and I routinely get them to take flies. I even did a show on Vermont Public Television a couple of years ago about it. (Vermont Outdoor Journal should have it back up on their website before too long). This year I became the first person to become a Vermont Master Angler and the fifth fish I entered to get my pin was a longnose gar. The gar had to have a minimum length of 36" and I crushed it with a 46" fish. So far I am the only person to have entered a gar.

I also entered 12 bowfin and was involved in helping catch 9 other Master Class bowfin. Right now bowfin are the most numerous fish entered in the program largely because of me. This is all on fly tackle. Check out my video of this on YouTube. To my knowledge I am the first person to guide for bowfin and gar on the fly in this area (another guide service does guide bowfin on the fly now, but they learned from me!) Please check out my website, http://www.drewpriceonthefly.com/. My guide service will be on the website shortly and I will also be offering flies to target these and other species for sale.
Thanks a million! Semper lepisosteus!
DrewP, 12/04/10

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Tropical Gar - San Carlos Sportfishing, Phillippe Tisseaux

For those who have the opportunity to travel far afield, Phillippe Tisseaux of San Carlos Sportfishing can lead you to massive Tropical Gar in wild and beautiful Costa Rica. Fishing Nicaragua Lake, the Rio Frio, Caño Negro, and the San Juan River, Phillipe averages five gar per outing. The exciting "by-catch" on these outings is often massive tarpon or snook. Gar are caught year round, but fishing seems to be best during the dry season, from January to June. The aggressive tropical gar are more than willing to smash a lure or race off with live bait.
www.nicaraguafishing.com

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