Gar ketchn maybe ?

Thought yep , why not ,the dock was flat out full of them on the surface under the lights , thunk when in Rome and pitched to them some with my jig ......
Was waiting for a boat ride in the wee morning light and they were quite cooperative , but something odd was up .....
Every time one would hit it and spit or not hook up , it would immediately get hit again as it fell out of sight ....
Thought wow them gar are aggressive to follow it down and keep hitting it and not a one getting hooked up ? Well I did hook one ,but of course at the top it spit the jig and I continued to pitch at them , you literally got hits every pitch and multiples as well .....
About 4 or 5 pitches and constant misses my bud showed up to hear my jig bouncing off the roof of the dock ....
Said what are you doing , I said trying to ketch gar ....
Next pitch as he walked up and KABOOM , a crappie ...?
then the next pitch , KABOOM , sand bass ....?
and yet again , another crappie ...?
seems just under the gar were herds of fish feeding with them on the bait under them bright dock lights ....
we stood around a bit banging our jigs off the roof of the dock until the boat captain showed up a first light , them dang fish hit fast and hard and would spit it most of the time WAY before you could get a hook in them , pretty interesting stuff for sure ....
in the end it was just some more KABOOM ....
85 degree water , 5:45 am , really bright flood lamps shining down on the dock in 8 foot of water , bit it on the fall and or retrieve ONLY around the 3 to 4 foot down area ,just a quick fyi ....