Re: NANFA-- Longnose Gar Spawning

Todd Crail (farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com)
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:18:19 -0400

Now this is what I'm talkin' about! Great shots Rick! This has me all
jacked up to try and catch the Maumee River spawn this year on film. Same
deal... Hundreds to Thousands congregated in one big fantastic gar orgy up
on shallow riffles off the main rapids. They have great timing on the
Maumee as well... If they showed up two weeks earlier, I think the walleye
and white bass fisherman would make things not so pretty.

Thanks for sharing them! :)

Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Phillips" <philipsr_at_chartertn.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Longnose Gar Spawning

> About this time last year I went fishing down the road on the Holston
River at
> John Sevier Steam Plant, Hawkins Co, northeast Tennessee. There is an
outflow
> of warm water from the plant where tasty fish (such as channel cats)
abound.
> This outflow runs for maybe a quarter of a mile before joining the main
> channel of the Holston River. As I approached the outflow I saw hundreds,
> actually...it was probably thousands...of Longnose Gar lined up along the
edge
> of the outflow for the entire length of the channel. What a sight! You
could
> walk down to the edge of the water, squat down and reach out and grab one
of
> these toothy 3 or 4 foot fellows (if you dare!) by the tail. Quite an
> experience to sit down there with things playing around at your feet by
the
> hundreds. Anyway I just remembered it and I knew I had some photos I took
> with a camcorder. I found em and have posted them to my Yahoo Photos at
> http://photos.yahoo.com/phoxinus02 in the folder marked fish. Enjoy!
>
> Rick

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