Go Gators!
That’s one ugly fish.
Years ago I was fishing for Bass in Kincaid Lake in Louisianna and caught a four footer Gar. It was quite a fighter. I thought I was Roland Martin until the paper came out the next day and there was a picture of a 14 year old who had caught a six footer the same day in the same lake.
Y’all don’t worry none - them Gummn’t scientists gonna fix everything.
I don't know why she did that.
They got 'em in Arkansas too.
When I was about 7 or 8 on fishing trip with my father and his friends and their kids on the Mississippi River, we put the boats in on a sandbar to fish the still waters next to the bank. I saw a big fish jump in the river and cast out to where it jumped and hooked it. I yelled to everyone I had a big one, they turned and looked in time to see me being dragged toward the river. My father came running and cut the line with his pocket knife. He told me nice cast, good fishing, but never go after a fish bigger than you, until you grow up.
I grew up seeing these on the Tennessee river...not that big but 3 and 4 footers. Tradition was, back then, to pull it in the boat and beat it to death with a paddle and throw it overbard to float down the river for all to see as a warning that the river did contain these gar. Rumor had it back then they would attack persons dangling their feet over the dock or water skiers who had fallen or persons wading. I personally know of no such attacks. I searched on the internet and the stories of the attacks seem to be extremely rare or not credible. I believe the biggest reason for killing these fish was most likely fear of their perceived potential to attack rather than fact.
Never seen a Gar that big but I have lost many expensive Rapala lures to those monsters.
$6 buck a piece and you just cut the line. No sense in tangling with something that has that many teeth.
Never seen a Gar that big but I have lost many expensive Rapala lures to those monsters.
$6 buck a piece and you just cut the line. No sense in tangling with something that has that many teeth.
Ok to ward off starvation but better used in the bottom of a hole you dug to plant a tree.
I come from the Wichita Falls Tx area and when in the Boy Scouts we put in at Lake Diversion for our 50 mile afoot afloat badge.........zillions of canoes and scouts and a week to get her done
..on the 2nd day we say a gar stuck on a sandbar that measured 4ft 7 inches and paddle beat it dead.....
..later that night camped on the river bank the mosquitos
we eatin us up......Our scout master got up ,dragged that dead fish just upwind............sliced it from tail to neck and those skeeters left us alone and devoured that fish
Noodling not recommended.
Forty years ago, as kids, we’d fish for these in the bayous along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We’d throw them in the back of the truck to take home as trophies. If I remember right, they’d live for hours out of the water. My Grandfather said the only way to kill ‘em was to drag ‘em home behind the truck and skin ‘em with an ax when you got home. He also said you had to be careful though cause they’d dull your ax and draw sparks on a glancing blow!
Does anyone know of anyone trying to eat one of these? Lots of meat if they are edible.