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Alligator Gar grow to 19 feet. One killed in Arkansas on Lake Conway. Not caught on a rod and reel though, so no record. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread520120/pg1
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One extra-hot (~120�F) August day in 1946, the water in Tensaw Lake was so hot that I had to pull myself down the anchor rope to find cool water 'way down.
Disturbed a big gar down there. As it turned to get away, its tail fin knocked wind out of me.
Barely made it up to air.
"Good enough" isn't.
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I live not too far from the Trinity River. There are some awful big aligator gar in it. Big needle nose too. Biggest I ever saw was in what is called big eddy. He was ten foot at least.
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A guy from Vicksburg caught one that weighed 327 lbs, was 8'5" long and was 48" in circumference. Not sure if was by rod and reel.
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The Colorado river had tons of them, at my place the river is brackish. I caught some really big ones while night fishing for trout/reds. You see lots of them some nights and then none the next. Only the smaller ones (50lbs+less) come up in the lights, the bigger one hang in the dark of the river. You can hear them feeding, lot of fun putting a big rod out for one.
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