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Posted by Bryan on 7/21/2008, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Gar"
My opinion is that if you are catching gar you are in the wrong area. They hang out in warmer water than stripers like to. If you are marking fish in 0 - 20 feet of water this time of year they are probably gar. Big stripers may get this shallow at night but not for very long. To me gar give off a very dense signature on the graph. Lots of thick yellow streaks. I guess they are really boney and have larger air bladders? Stripers tend to give off less of a signature. More meat which would absorb more of the radar? More like a stripe across the graph. Of course the bigger the fish the bigger and more dense the mark will be also. Depth also plays a roll in the density of the mark on the graph.
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