Brown bullhead

I caught them yesterday and lost a HUGE longnose gar. I pulled it up from about 20 feet of water like it was a bluegill barely any resistance at all. I thought it was a tiny one. Then, when it got about 10 feet away from me and fully extended, I realized this thing was easily 4-5 feet long. 😳 It dove straight back into the deep, and this time it took off like I was attached to a truck. I managed to pull it back, but the hook came off. 🤬 The crazy part is, it literally parked about 5 feet away from me for maybe 10 seconds, looking for bait like a madman, left and right, then disappeared. About 30 minutes later, it hit my bait again and almost ripped the rod out of the holder. I thought, This time I’m finally going to hook it. Nope. It came off the hook almost immediately. 😂 And this kept happening over and over for a while. Speaking of fish that are hard to hook, land, and actually have a good landing ratio, this fish is absolutely the hardest. Longnose gar are terrible for my mental health. 😂🤬

Looking at fishing content online will make you believe everyone else is out there miraculously catching big fish every trip. 😂 Reality? Most of the time, I’m driving thousands of kilometres, spending thousands of dollars on fishing trips, and getting absolutely skunked. Compared to how many times I actually go fishing, the number of trips where I catch anything worth bragging about is pretty damn low. 🤣 Drove 4.5 hours for this one. Yesterday I fished through absolutely insane winds for 6 hours, lost 5 rigs, snapped a $200 rod, donated almost half a spool of braid to the fish gods… and the universe rewarded me with a 7-inch brown bullhead. 😂 10/10 trip. Would absolutely do it again. 🎣

Sorry that it’s blurry it’s my phone at 5% it had a nice small fight