This thing looks like it’s straight outta Monster Hunter or a Peter Benchley novel.
The alligator gar is native to the southern United States. Fishers hate them because they tear up bass and other trophy fish.
But these things can grow up to eight feet long and top 300 pounds. The babies are three feet long. You don’t catch these with a rod and reel. It turns out that the favored tactic is shooting them with a crossbow. [insert your own World War Z/Left 4 Dead references here]
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Looks like a funktified eel…maybe it’s on the sushi menu.
What the mayonnaise is that? I am disturbed! *shudders*
I’ve been told I have relatives (distant ones, fortunately), that catch gigantic fish with their bare hands, using their wiggly fingers as bait. They stick their arms into dark holes on the riverbanks. It’s called “noodling”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LksuKTD8y0o
That’s somewhat unsettling.
That’s one of those creatures that you just don’t want to know exists out there…kinda like finding out that not only was there a real “Jaws” but an entire species of massive 60″ great white sharks that existed at one point in time, but those are extinct now…but not this thing…this thing is real and exists today. Now we have a real life “Lake Placid” potential situation going on here, now all we need is Bill Pullman to come and whip up on this thing.
Thank you Booyor, thank you.
@Slade haha or maybe it got that big b/c Betty White has been feeding them? She had a great SuperBowl commercial this 2010….
Yes. I, too, blame Betty White.
very big gar but i have caught one three times that size and released it back into the lake. it took me about three hours to get it in it weighed about 193 pounds i would have took a picture of it but i dont like gars so i released it back so someone else to catch it it was about 9 feet long