[Prunetacos]

[Prunetacos]

[353FMG]

Probably tastes like chicken.

[Domandred]

I knew there was a reason why I pack a firearm when I’m fishing...

[fso301]

I ate one of them once. Practically needed a chainsaw to clean it.

[mnehring]

These are some nasty fish. Occasionally some bodies wash up on Caddo Lake near here and they are gigantic.

[proud American in Canada]

Wow! How do you catch a fish like that??!

[Osage Orange]

They don’t eat people........

[ransomnote]

Further down the page, the commentary makes several factual corrections to the exagerated claim. The fish was caught in Texas, weighed less etc. and that the original claims of Oklahoma and larger size was done by pranksters. Here is the quote from the link you provided:
“The gar was actually caught by Keith Riehn and Robin Parks at the Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Texas in 2005. According to an August 2005 field journal entry published on the Aim Low Productions website, the gar weighed in at 244.5 lbs and was 8’ 2” long. “

[big black dog]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/alligatorgar.asp

The fish actually came from Texas and weighed about 244 lbs.

[ezcritter]

As a child in the 1950'S I visited my Aunt and Uncle and he had a large
Alligator Gar hanging form a tree. It looked just like this picture. A friend of his lost a hand when he caught a Gar and it bit his hand off when he was pulling it into the boat.

[SunkenCiv]

There are lakes? ;’)

[Hyzenthlay]

Oh, wow... that’s kind of scary, now I don’t want to swim in anything but the oversized pond with the dumptruck-load of sand at the side that us locals pretend is a ‘beach’.

The lake I used to work at had a ‘family’ of catfish, the largest of which was just over 3 feet long. I thought it was a myth until I was standing on a dock one day, and some kid said “Whoa, look at the size of that thing!” and when I looked where he was pointing, I saw it... and the lake isn’t that big, it’s about 40 feet at the deepest and a mile or so across at the widest, and I’ve been down as far as 25 feet (Note to self: In the future, get watches that are water-resistant to MORE than 5 meters) and after that I never wanted to go back down there! And we told all those little kids that no, there weren’t any lake monsters, and George (the catfish in question) was perfectly friendly...

[mlocher]

My grandfather caught these on the White River in the 1930s. He used to look forward to his annual trek from MI to go fishing (or is it hunting?)

[bert]

I have seen many discussions and proud photos of all kinds of stuff, but I could never have guessed the depth of experience and enthusiasm for this strange creature of American waters.