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1 posted on 10/26/2023 9:52:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Does it taste like chicken?


2 posted on 10/26/2023 9:55:08 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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That’s a big ‘un.


3 posted on 10/26/2023 9:56:53 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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Everything's bigger in Texas!!
6 posted on 10/26/2023 10:00:19 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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Aww. It got that big so it lived long, let it go !


7 posted on 10/26/2023 10:02:32 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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It’s all impressive but 6# test? Wow, that’s impressive.


8 posted on 10/26/2023 10:02:48 AM PDT by MrKatykelly (Obama was the proof of concept puppet.)
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both in the state of Texas and in the world

So, what's bigger - the world or Texas?

9 posted on 10/26/2023 10:03:35 AM PDT by fruser1
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As kids in Baton Rouge we caught a bunch using a net on a long pole. In between a couple of areas of water was a small joining stream we were walking down and they came at us like torpedoes. They were small ones though, 2-3 feet each. I was about 7 at the time. It was the 60’s.


11 posted on 10/26/2023 10:05:01 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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6# line? did someone drop a zero?


15 posted on 10/26/2023 10:12:46 AM PDT by sasquatch
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I’ve seen ‘em in Louisiana.


17 posted on 10/26/2023 10:17:09 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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We have those in the Tennessee river around Chattanooga area, but I’ve never seen one near that size.

When I was growing up in the 70’s it was tradition if you caught one to pull it into the boat and beat it to death with a boat paddle then let it float down the river for all to see they were in the water. Saw many floating in the river when I was on it back then. Hardly ever see them now though, but I am much less frequently on the river now.

You read things online that say they don’t attack people, but I know people who swear that’s just a lie to stop people from killing them.


19 posted on 10/26/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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I saw that title and initially thought it was a Florida Man-type story.

Way to go, Texas!


22 posted on 10/26/2023 10:33:35 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Holy crap! I didn’t think they got that big.


25 posted on 10/26/2023 10:41:01 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Six-pound test? No way.


28 posted on 10/26/2023 10:42:28 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Not an alligator gar, but a big fish story.
Back in the 60s when I was still little, my family was at Lake of the Ozarks, in central Missouri, where we vacationed a lot.
One morning, while standing on the dock of the resort a john boat pulled up with 2 fisherman in it. A channel catfish was tied along side. It was too big to get in the boat. The boat was probably around 12 foot.
They caught it on a trotline by the Bagnell Dam.
31 posted on 10/26/2023 10:45:13 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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I bet that smoked his Zebico drag


33 posted on 10/26/2023 10:48:27 AM PDT by DOC44 ( )
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After weighing the large fish, Weston and Kirkland released their catch back into the water.


36 posted on 10/26/2023 10:59:14 AM PDT by JayGalt (A proud slave must be broken before the contagion spreads. Ever was it thus.)
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You get enough o’ them you got a meal!


43 posted on 10/26/2023 11:25:59 AM PDT by Chengdu54
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I know it’s a lot to ask for modern journalist. But do they feel like letting us know where it was caught? You know, the whole who what when where why and how thing…


46 posted on 10/26/2023 11:53:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Wow.. never heard of an alligator gar before. Thought it was a typo…


48 posted on 10/26/2023 11:56:26 AM PDT by nutmeg
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Same guy (Kirkland) is mentioned in Wikipedia:

In 1991, fishing guide Kirk Kirkland anecdotally reported catching an alligator gar measuring 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) on rod and line from the Trinity River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_gar

63 posted on 10/26/2023 3:51:58 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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