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Alligator gar versus ELB
Timo:
Sorry folks but I have to say it....Looks photo shopped to me! ;D ;D
El Destructo:
--- Quote from: Timo on April 16, 2009, 07:30:11 pm ---Sorry folks but I have to say it....Looks photo shopped to me! ;D ;D
--- End quote ---
You could be right....might be hard to hang that Anal Fin so straight down on the Board....but if it is Shopped....they did a good job with the Shadows under the Plank and all
PeteC:
As far as size is concerned,that is no big stretch.I've seen them myself that big and bigger.When I lived in south Texas,I fished Choke Canyon,which was a newly filled lake on the Frio river,and San Miguel creek.One day while sculling my canoe down a flooded sendera,I heard a commotion I was sure was being caused by a big bull gator.But is was'nt,it was a pair of the 2 biggest gar I've ever laid eyes on.One of the monsters came gliding out of the flooded brush and right under me.I know it was 12 feet long,and I could'nt begin to hazard a guess to it's weight.It was huge,with a girth about the size of an oil drum.As he came under me I jobbed him with my paddle.When he accelerated,he displaced so much water,I was nearly tossed out of the canoe.I went back to the area to try to find them again ,but they were gone by then. We also have huge gar in the Trinity river,some big enough,that if they roll near the boat,it'll nearly give you the willys.We don't have near as many as there used to be.It's big buisness guiding gator gar hunts. God Bless
Pat B:
Curt Keller sent me a few pieces of skin from a 5" alligator gar. The scales would make excellent bleeder blades for primitive arrows and they covered the pieces of skin so a normal arrow with have a hard time penetrating unless you shot quartering away.
DanaM:
I've seen this picture before in outdoor magazines, I think its real but the fish appears bigger than it is due to
"perspective" the gentleman is well behind the fish making him look small in relation to the fish. No matter what its a big
honkin gar :)
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