"Eisboch" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:55:29 -0600, SteveB wrote:


Some pretty big damn
awesome powerful fish that look like they came from the age of the
dinosaurs.

Are they powerful? The few I've seen seemed rather sluggish and slow.


To the contrary, they are capable of being very fast and efficient
hunters.
Here's a pic I found of one a guy caught in 1991.

http://www.texasfishingguides.org/ki...atula_42_x.jpg

Eisboch

Was over at the San Francisco Academy of Science. Used to be the Steinhart
Aquarium. Lots of gars in the tank, and they looked like they could swim
very fast from just watching them glide along nomally.