244.5 lbs Alligator Gar...with video

Duck Dog · 02-20-2006, 01:10 PM

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Alligator Gar. 8'2", 244.5 lbs, and 44.75" girth...

Two Missouri archers won a tag-team version of gar wars at Sam Rayburn Lake, bagging a gigantic alligator gar that weighed 244 ½ pounds. It is the pending Bowfishing Association of America world record.

The giant fish is not, however, the largest of its species taken with bow and arrow in Texas.

A 2001 Trinity River gar arrowed by Marty McClellan weighed 290 pounds. The rod-and-reel world record alligator gar was caught from the Rio Grande in 1951. It weighed 279 pounds.

The biggest gator gar ever reported in Texas was caught on a trotline in the Nueces River in 1953 and weighed 302 pounds.

Gars are slow growing fish, with female alligator gars reaching sexual maturity around age 11 and living to age 50. Male alligator gars mature around age 6 and live at least 26 years. Alligator gars commonly grow to a size of 6 1/2ft and over 100 lbs. The largest recorded alligator gar cames from the St. Francis River, Arkansas in the 1930's, and weighed 350 lbs.

HC_Chief · 02-20-2006, 01:12 PM

Holy shit

Bootlegged · 02-20-2006, 01:12 PM

These are very common in lakes in and around Kansas City. Usually they hover 1 to 2 feet below lake swimmer's feet.

**Munson** · 02-20-2006, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Lattimer

These are very common in lakes in and around Kansas City. Usually they hover 1 to 2 feet below lake swimmer's feet.

Those things are common??? I've never seen one of those. It looks like some gigantic prehistoric fish.

bowener · 04-20-2009, 01:49 PM

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Those things are common??? I've never seen one of those. It looks like some gigantic prehistoric fish.

Well, to be fair to the fish, its species probably have altered very little in the last 100 million years.

Duck Dog · 02-20-2006, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lattimer

These are very common in lakes in and around Kansas City. Usually they hover 1 to 2 feet below lake swimmer's feet.

You know the ozarks have them. I wonder how many people will still ski now.

Radar Chief · 02-20-2006, 02:10 PM

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You know the ozarks have them. I wonder how many people will still ski now.

Don’t laugh. Gar and, even more so, alligator snap’n turtles are why I have anxiety for swim’n in water I can’t see my feet.

Duck Dog · 02-20-2006, 02:20 PM

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Don’t laugh. Gar and, even more so, alligator snap’n turtles are why I have anxiety for swim’n in water I can’t see my feet.

I'm not laughing, I know they're there. I used to run limb lines and trot lines on Milford lake. Lots of big gar and snappers in there. The Republican river that feeds it is great for noodling.

**CosmicPal** · 02-20-2006, 02:35 PM

I think they should have Richard Dreyfus cut open it's contents to make sure it didn't eat a swimmer. They might find more than just a license plate and a beer can in there.

Radar Chief · 02-20-2006, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Duck Dog

I'm not laughing, I know they're there. I used to run limb lines and trot lines on Milford lake. Lots of big gar and snappers in there. The Republican river that feeds it is great for noodling.

Noodling. There’s something that ain’t for everyone.
I have a couple of cousins in Oklahoma that noodle, they’ve come up with fish you wouldn’t think they could wrestle out of the water. Impressive, but I’ll remain a spectator.
One of my other cousins went to Kazakhstan do’n missionary work and met her, now, Swedish husband. When she brought him back here to meet the family I was a little worried ‘bout’im. He dressed, walked and talked a little more metro-sexually than my redneck relatives are used to, not unusual for a European but still we’re talk’n try'n to impress Okie rednecks here. But when he went noodle’n with my noodle’n cousins, I knew he’d be all right.
Funniest line of the day. He, the Euro-metro-sexual fiancé, dove under water where he found a hole and stuck his hand in it then came up gasp’n for air say’n, “It bit me!” My noodle’n cousins said, “Great, next time he does it grab’im.”

aturnis · 04-19-2009, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Don’t laugh. Gar and, even more so, alligator snap’n turtles are why I have anxiety for swim’n in water I can’t see my feet.

That and you're a huge puzzy.

jynni · 02-20-2006, 04:04 PM

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These are very common in lakes in and around Kansas City. Usually they hover 1 to 2 feet below lake swimmer's feet.

And that's the exact reason I don't go swimming in lakes.

My friends try to tell me I'm crazy for not participating in lake activites but I sure as hell don't want to ever even see one of those things.

**Dunit35** · 02-20-2006, 05:10 PM

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And that's the exact reason I don't go swimming in lakes.

My friends try to tell me I'm crazy for not participating in lake activites but I sure as hell don't want to ever even see one of those things.

Me too. I hate swimming in lakes, ponds because I can't see what's down there. I also won't swim in the ocean.

Fritz88 · 04-20-2009, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Bootlegged

These are very common in lakes in and around Kansas City. Usually they hover 1 to 2 feet below lake swimmer's feet.

that will keep me away from swimming in lakes then

**Dunit35** · 02-20-2006, 01:13 PM

I bet that scared the crap out of them when they saw that thing. I'm glad I aint swimming in that lake.

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