However, they tend to begin around the last third of October, and run into November. I started in FL with 5/0 and got one little nibble no strike seen another guy catch one next to me so I up the hook to 7/0 and I caught an Albino (rat) Second night I used 8/0 and rotten minnows and caught two.Halloween events typically don't have a set date for release, like most updates.

Ill try a 6/0 and 7/0 on my last couple eyes and see if anything tap taps on it instead of hammering. Though I have mastered the pig eyes, and less than #5/0 hook they're useless for Halloween gars. I have a feeling there will be more normal fish sprinkled in but since those don't usually hit at night im not sure whats gonna happen.Īnd Pedro, maybe there's smaller mouths within the Halloween gars too which is why the tap taps on a #6/0? I dunno someone with a nice stock of Halloween baits will have to test each bait with each size and see what's what. The normal baits do work, but how well they work we'll have to see. Yea after blowing through my starting stacks of Halloween baits, being near out of coins I spose tomorrow ill run tests with the usual 'gar yummies' and see how it goes at night. May go 4/0 next and test your suggestion further. But, i never trust devs to have that, lol. I feel this implies 6/0 or larger as 4-6 would be medium and 1-3 small using rational logic. I’ve been changing hooks regularly to test 5/0 thru 9/0 so far. I caught the current #1 event fish using 6/0 with rotten minnows. Once I went to 5/0 hook for the pigs eyes at least. Seems like minnows work at 4/0, eyes at 5/0 and mice at 6/0. Every Halloween gar I caught, they hammered it. Was hoping to gather more evidence before posting, but I cant see ya suffer getting nibbles. 1 spot I caught 2 repeatedly though so it can happen. I have 5 gar spots in NC and if I catch one in one spot i wont get another one there that night.

(you can see the monster fish if its close)Īlso, the same spot doesn't always seem to work more than once for these.

Some people have caught them with rotten minnows on size 4/0 hooks, yet you cant catch a thing on a 4/0 hook with pigs eyes they just tap it repeatedly. It is my belief that for the Halloween gars this can be BAIT dependent as well as fish dependent. Hook size is off one way or the other when this happens.

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