On Apr 23, 10:55*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message

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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

These fish were familiar to me when I lived in Texas and Louisiana. *Bigger
around than a bowling ball, and six feet long. *The biggest ones I saw were
in Galveston bay around Seabrook, in brackish water. *They did get big in
the Louisiana marshes, too. *Fishing for them was with snares, or frayed
nylon lines that got tangled in their teeth. *Bowfishing was fun, too. *Very
good to eat as a roast, or scraping the meat and making a local delicacy
called "gar fish balls" meaning balls made of shredded meat, and not the
testicles. *Some pretty big damn awesome powerful fish that look like they
came from the age of the dinosaurs.

Steve

Interesting, I never knew (or thought about it) that they would live
in brackish water.