LONGNOSE GAR

APPEARANCE

• Longer nose than normal gar
• Sharp long teeth
• Long cylindrical body
• Hard scales ; diamond shaped
• Females bigger than men.

Size and Weight
The Longnose gar can be as long as 5 to 6 feet and weigh as much as 50 pounds (lbs) .

HABITAT AND LIFE

• Mud Flats
• Weedy Quiet Freshwater
• Lakes , Big Creeks
• Life Span Of Gar ; 20 Years

What to Use :
Live Bait works , minnows work as well. Although the gar is hard to hook . The rope line usually gets stuck in their large long teeth.

FUN FACTS

• The Longnose Gars Eggs are poisonous.
• The gar has been around since dinosaurs.
• The longnose gars scales were used by
• Tribes as weapons on arrows . When low on
• oxygen gars breathe through bladder .

BREEDING AND SPAWNING

MAXIMUM ALLOWED CAUGHT

RECORDS