Once out of the launch harbor and into Lake Pontchartrain proper, Capt. ![]() With him were his two sons and sometimes deckhands, 16-year-old Hunter, a high school student, and 21-year-old Tyler, a warehouse associate for a wholesale pool supply company and a fishing addict. He looked like a sailor, stocky and heavily suntanned, with a mariner’s short-cropped beard. But a surprising number of them keep their gar.”ĭucking between days of squalls and blow-ups, I finally met the man at the Mandeville Boat Launch, at the mouth of Bayou Castine. “Many fishermen release their catch of gar and sharks, because they fish for the thrill of catching them. All they talked about at the dock were the gar and the shark. “They had a limit of slot reds and a couple of big bull redfish too. ![]() The idea for fishing for toothy fish came during a father-son charter trip. Jones, it turned out, spends much of the year like other Lake Pontchartrain fishermen - hammering speckled trout in early spring and all fall at the lake’s bridges and chasing redfish much of the rest of the time.īut from May through September, he spends an increasing amount of his effort chartering for gar and sharks. “Pretty good ones too right here next to New Orleans.” In fact, May is the start of the best time for gar and shark fishing.” ![]() Coast Guardsman and now full time charter guide specializing in Lake Pontchartrain fishing. The friendly voice on the other end of the phone belonged to Andy Jones, a retired U.S. An orange-skeletoned alligator gar with a gaping mouth full of fangs slithered sinuously down the black card’s face. The business card on the counter of Bayou Adventure in Lacombe couldn’t help but catch my eye.
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