Does anyone know how to make those wire garfish snare/loops

I posted this over at 'Inshore Fishing' also. I am really wanting to take my sons and grandchildren catch some gar.

My dad and uncle used to fish garfish with jugs and these snare/loops made with wire. They worked very well.

My son shot, with his bow-fishing rig, a nice 20-25 pound gar from the dock a few months back. I cleaned it and, served it fried to a large group of our friends. Some of my friends didn't even want to try it. Well, they all tried it and, EVERY single person enjoyed it very much. It had actually been nearly 25 years since I had eaten any garfish. I had forgotten how delicious it was!

My mother would scrape a spoon along the meat and make gar-balls with the 'flaked' meat. She would use this flaked meat to make stuffed mirliton and peppers also. Good stuff I'm tellin ya! She would mostly just cut small strips and fry it just like I did.

My grandkids would really enjoy chasing down some jugs, just as much as me and my brother used to. My dad would set us overboard in a pirogue and let us chase those speeding jugs all over the bayou! They would be in the big boat laughing sooo hard watching us trying to catch those jugs, I just don't remember how to make those loops.

An old trap-builder guy I know told me that the commercial gar-fishermen used a particular hook to catch them with.

If anyone knows how to make the wire snares, tell me please. Or, you may call or email me. Also, if anyone knows what hook works best from a jug-rig... ragremill@netzero.net 504-813-7409

If you do find out how to make them, let me know also. Me and friends are planning a trip down south this summer to try and catch some of those tasty suckers. I have always used hooks to catch them, but I am interested in trying the snare.E-mail me @dauzatjody@yahoo.com when you find out how and tell me please.

work well for rabbits to, of course during the season that is

you take a piece of wire about 12' long or so, make a small loop in each end. Shove the fisrt loop through the second loop. about 2-3' from the second loop make a bend. So effectively you have a hangmans noose... connect it to a swivel under your cork. We used to use weenies on them.... The type of wire is the main things cause we used one that was too course and lost most of them. I think you need that thin steel wire so it will get tight. Fun stuff

I have never tried catching gar using wire snares but I would think that you could use the wire used to make wire leaders for offshore fishing. Any good sporting goods store that carries saltwater fishing gear should have it. You buy say 30 pound metal leader material and some appropriately sized crimps and a crimping tool and you should be set.

We used to use piano wire. Make a loop on each end of a 3-4 ft piece. Just as the other poster said feed one loop thru the other then tie swivel and line to it. we used to use Pogies and tie them to the bottom of the noose that way when the gar would take it the piano wire would get stuck in their teeth too. Haven't done it in a few years but it sure was fun. GL with it

yes i think piano wire or leaders and crimps would do it.. i guess u would make the length longer depending on the depth.. like i said we never made it work very well so most of these guys will have more to offer than i

My Grandfather was a Yugoslavian oysterfisherman from Empire/Buras and I watched him make the snares , he always talked of piano wire , he had a spool of wire which I still have and had in my hand last Saturday , it's thin stainless steel , he use to put a nail in wood and twist the wire with pliers around the nail making a small eyelet loop on both ends , one eyelet has to pass thru the other so make one smaller than the other it was between 12 and 18 inches long , we used a Penn deep sea reel like a 6 or 8 size on a short stiff pole with the old school multicolored braided line , a cork and a very heavy swivel snap hook on the end you would push the eyelet thru the meat of what ever you had like poggy , mullet , white trout , chicken pieces or melt and put one eyelet thru the other and snap that on the swivel , the trick was the way he bent the wire below the top eyelet so that the bottom eyelet would catch and keep the rig open ------- he tied the gars up to a pole thru the gills and used a machette to fillet the meat which he grinder in a hand crank grinder that clamped to a table , fried up gar balls that had some boil potatoes mixed in , right out the grease you shake them up in a paper bag of seasonings like sugar , salt , pepper and what not --don't eat the eggs as there are alledged killers

My grandfather used to catch gar (LOTS OF GAR). He used jugs, and another way that I found really cool.. He would use a strings, like the kind they use for hay bails I think, and run them about an inch below the water surface. He'd run them across canals or whatever, and just leave it for a few hours.. It worked really well.. He said it works best at night when the gar are swimming close to the surface. They swim with their mouths partially open and their teeth would get tangled in the string.. I've never done it myself, but I've gone with him to retrieve the lines and there was always plenty of gar on.

You can also take about a 4-5 inch piece of nylon rope(3/8)fold it in two and fray the ends. Tie you fishing string where it folds and fish this like a top water jig. When the gar bite into the nylon their teeth gets tangled.