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I know there are gar in MN but I dont know were. I am not looking to find your favorite locations/best spots, I just would like to know were to start. The dnr is not much help. I have never seen a gar in the wild let alone from a bowfishing boat. I hear they are great in the pan I would like to give them a try.

Any help would be great. Either by email or on the site.

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I used to catch a lot of long nosed gar on the St Croix river. There are many oxbows off the Wisconson side across from Marine on St. Croix. I found them on the surface sunning on hot flat calm days. I had difficulty catching them at first, but a bowfisherman could have a field day. We had them around the docks at Sunnyside too, and the power plant was always good for a few.

We struggled at times to keep bait on at night while fishing out from the landing north of Stillwater when a school of gar was in. Turtles where always bad there too.

I watched a show on south sea ocean tribesman catching similar fish, not on hooks but on yarn that would tangle in their teeth.

When I would sight cast rapalas to gar, I could get them to bite but many got loose before the boat until I tried the idea from the show and tied a length of hair ribbon to the back of a rap. and it worked like a charm.

There is also a superlarge record sized fish I caught out of lake St Croix that I gave it to Bill Tomberlin of Bill's bluff bait. He offered to mount it if he could put it up in his bait store. I never saw the fish again. I t would be fun to find out what happened to it.

There was some thought it was an allagator gar, but highly unlikely. Hans

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Come down here and tangle with some alligator gar!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been out to do it once and I was AMAZED at the size of these things! Very Lare Fish!

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There are alot of gar in the Mississippi as well, I have accidently caught one while walleye fishing, and seen them out at night while flathead fishing. The ones I saw while flathead fishing were probably pushing 5 feet long!

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yeah in the summer they come up and sun alot on on the croix you see them alot were there is no current like on the back sides of points and in harbors just to warn you you get some really wierd looks from people on the croix they just arent used to seing people running around with bows same place you find the gar on the croix watch for carp there are some monsters cruising the shallows

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