3 huge Alligator Gar caught.............

Discussion in 'Cactus Cafe' started by LousianaHorn, Jun 4, 2021.

  1. LousianaHorn

    LousianaHorn Kabong

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  2. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

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  3. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    Seriously would they attack a swimmer?
     
  4. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Never heard of them attacking anyone, but when I was 11, I was skiing behind our family boat on the Neches River just inside the Rainbow Bridge in front of the Atlantic Refinery. I did a kick turn and went flying across the wake and landed in the water just as a gar rolled over. He caught the fin of my slalom, but I kept going. As my dad said, "you looked like a flat rock on a smooth pond". My dad went back and retrieved the slalom from the gar. He was probably about 6 ft with my slalom lodged firmly in the middle.
     
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  5. AC

    AC 2,500+ Posts

    Those things are prehistoric!
     
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  6. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Those things are nearly impossible to kill once you land one, other than letting them asphyxiate out of the water. Definitely a holdover from the dinosaur age.
     
  7. LousianaHorn

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    they have caught some big ones on Caddo also over the years along with huge loggerhead turtles.
     

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