I don't fish the point much myself, it does produce some big crappie and it is loaded with catfish. Don't know about gar, haven't really ever seen many rolling. Who knows why the numbers that are caught is down. I have never even considered birds as a problem but I guess they could be. I do know that except the months of March and April it is very difficult to catch a mess of crappie, used to the fall n winter you would find the crappie in the deep water of the coves and the boats would be stacked in there also, I don't know for sure but I don't think that they have been doing much this past year. Like someone else said I think it's just a cycle the lake is going through.