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

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!

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.

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!

On Apr 23, 11:56*am, wrote:
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!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


I can understand that. In fact, the guy in the opening of the program
showd he had a 7 ft.r mounted on the wall and said he was trolling in
a 14 ft. jon boat, when one was swimming right next to him and it was
the full length of the boat. He then gave the impression that it was
time to get the heck out of there....


I can't blame him.

On Apr 23, 12:56 pm, wrote:
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!

Here in N. FL, you can go to Wakulla Springs and look out from the
swim tower toward the springs and see alligator gar hanging nearly
motionless over the clear spring and they range from 3-6'. When I was
a kid, my parents would give all 9 of us kids a mask and drag us
behind the canoe down the Wakulla river. There were gar all over the
place and at first they scared us but they never bothered us.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:30:57 -0700, Frogwatch wrote:


Here in N. FL, you can go to Wakulla Springs and look out from the swim
tower toward the springs and see alligator gar hanging nearly motionless
over the clear spring and they range from 3-6'. When I was a kid, my
parents would give all 9 of us kids a mask and drag us behind the canoe
down the Wakulla river.

Trolling for gar, were they? ;-) Personally, I've never seen them in
the 6' range. I have seen them 2-3' and they seemed rather sluggish to
me. Of course, I was on land and safe.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:42:13 -0700 (PDT), 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!

The commercial fishermen, the ones subject to a shark in the net,
carry a shotgun. If you catch one on a line, you cut the line.
For smaller fish, there are clubs designed for finishing them off. You
smash their skull. You can make a nice club from a broken paddle.
Go to your local ball club and ask for a couple of suitable broken
bats. Repair and shorten. Those bats cost a hundred bucks, by the way.

Casady

"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

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.