HUGE ALLIGATOR GAR !!!

  • out_fishing
    Moorhead, MN
    Posts: 1151
    June 21, 2012 at 9:27 pm #1077872

    I would never swim around there thats for sure!

    musky_ben
    Red Wing, MN
    Posts: 122
    June 22, 2012 at 12:06 am #1077912

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    I would never swim around there thats for sure!


    x2 or let mey dogs near the waters edge!!!

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    June 22, 2012 at 1:53 am #1077944

    What I want to know is, what did he use to fillet it? A 2 man tree saw?

    whiskeysour
    4 miles from Pool 9
    Posts: 693
    June 22, 2012 at 11:11 am #1077997

    Also, why would you eat that thing?

    Joel Ballweg
    Sauk City, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3295
    June 22, 2012 at 12:53 pm #1078041

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    Also, why would you eat that thing?

    I have heard that they are delicious. Although it does take something stronger than your average fillet or hunting knife to get through it’s hide.

    It looks like they dragged it a couple miles through the brush behind the ATV.

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    June 22, 2012 at 3:37 pm #1078079

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    Also, why would you eat that thing?


    If you’re gonna kill it, you should eat it!

    Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3532
    June 23, 2012 at 11:26 pm #1078289

    It looks like they dragged it a couple miles through the brush behind the ATV.

    That was to scale it….DUH

    mike_leclaire
    Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 412
    August 9, 2012 at 8:54 pm #1091145

    What a monsterous fish…Imagine fighting that thing by hand for 45 minutes, my arms feel like jello just thinking about it.

    armchairdeity
    Phoenix, AZ, formerly from the NW 'Burbs, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Posts: 1620
    August 9, 2012 at 11:36 pm #1091184

    Yeah but it was cord, not line, and it was a fiberglass fishing arrow, not a hook. Tie that line around your waist and just back out of the water.

    If you’ve got a decent hookup it’s not going to come loose and if it’s not a decent hookup you’re gonna lose it anyway.

    I want to know how old it is and just exactly how much history that guy killed just for the [self-censored] of it.

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    August 10, 2012 at 12:09 pm #1091264

    Wow – good for him! What a beast!

    armchairdeity
    Phoenix, AZ, formerly from the NW 'Burbs, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Posts: 1620
    August 11, 2012 at 5:02 am #1091523

    Quote:

    Yeah but it was cord, not line, and it was a fiberglass fishing arrow, not a hook. Tie that line around your waist and just back out of the water.

    If you’ve got a decent hookup it’s not going to come loose and if it’s not a decent hookup you’re gonna lose it anyway.

    I want to know how old it is and just exactly how much history that guy killed just for the [self-censored] of it.

    Just did a little research… turns out the females live to fifty and the males substantially less. I had assumed they were more like sturgeon and the guy killed a 200 year old fish.

    So hats off to the guy… cuz that IS the catch of a lifetime. Just next time have the ATV there first and tie the arrow off to -it-.

    outdoors4life
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 1500
    August 11, 2012 at 1:02 pm #1091556

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    Just did a little research… turns out the females live to fifty and the males substantially less. I had assumed they were more like sturgeon and the guy killed a 200 year old fish.

    So hats off to the guy… cuz that IS the catch of a lifetime. Just next time have the ATV there first and tie the arrow off to -it-.

    50 years is still a long time to grow that girl! So it is more like killing a 55 pound flathead up here….

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