I'm not sure what your point is. A quick Google search shows that snapping turtles have been around for about 90 million years while the alligator gar has been around for 215 million years. In terms of antiquity, the gar is far more prehistoric than the snapping turtle.
The only reason you said this isn’t because you are curious about my point. It is because you do not like my direction of thought. You think I should have this same admiration for the guy catching a big fish.
He caught a big fish. Well, that just doesn’t matter to me. That won’t change. I’ve never been impressed by these records of men catching a big fish. I know it happens, people are impressed and I know, it takes strength, cunning and skill and a bit of luck but I don’t care about it.
We had a woods where I grew up. In it I would occasionally find a turtle, pretty big for just a regular ole turtle but I found it amazing that these animals were out there, wild and meandering through nature as they have done for so long. There were snapping turtles as well. I was afraid of them but I knew these guys descended from ages ago and here they were too, swimming in our creek.
There were no ‘gars’ where I lived and I just have no interest in them. It’s not about prehistoric fish for me, either. It’s not about fish, it’s about turtles for me. I relate to them. I looked in their little eyes, they looked at me, I made pets of them then let them go back to the woods. I like turtles.