On Apr 23, 12:10*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 23, 10:42*am, wrote:

On Apr 23, 11:17*am, "Eisboch" wrote:

Did anyone else see the History Channel spot on these fish?
I had never heard of them before. * Creepy looking and big.
Although not normally aggressive against humans, apparently
there have been some documented cases of attacks.

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

Eisboch

I was bass fishing in a local florida swamp and caught a decent size
one by accident. I got that thing to my canoe, and really, really
wanted my lure back. I'm sitting there looking at this thing that's
all teeth and wondering what to do!

Yes, i watched it too. Very fascinating. At the end though, the marine
people said the Gar gets a bad rap and was considered more harmless
than agressive. and said the attacks were more to be blamed on
alligators. but when the guy caught a three footer it wasn't very
happy and bloodied his arm fairly well.

I was feeeshing with a friend of min in a small Lake in Central
Illinois, and he caught one. narley looking dude and maybe a food
long. He wanted his lure back too so he put on some leather gloves and
cut it's head off and dug the lure out.

I didn't know they got so big though. 7-10 asnd ev3en reported to be
up to 14-15 feet in length!

they said it will hold onto a fish then determine if it can swallow it
whole. The bad part is, I wonder how long it would take to hold onto
an arm or leg untill it figured it was to big to gulp down.

I don't wanna mess with one that size.

Butt ugly but beautiful in a wierd way.

The really big ones in Florida hardly will hit a lure at all. Think
they like live bait!!! I know of a spot, you go into the swamp on the
Hillsboro River, and get to a decent sized lake, nothing but swamp all
around it. When you are canoeing through it, the gar will be right at
the surface, BIG gar. It's a little nerve racking in a canoe, by
yourself, in the middle of a swamp with these all-teeth things
surfacing around you!