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Freshwater Fishing Records - TubeDude - 06-12-2003 [cool][url "http://www.indixie.com/indixie/lakemart/fishing/Freshwater%20World%20Records.htm"]http://www.indixie.com/indixie/lakemart/fishing/Freshwater%20World%20Records.htm[/url] Here's a link I just stumbled upon, for freshwater species records. Didn't find any for Utah. TubeDude [signature] Re: [TubeDude] Freshwater Fishing Records - Kent - 06-12-2003 Not sure that I would want to reel in a 279 pound alligator gar. [signature] Re: [kentofnsl] Freshwater Fishing Records - TubeDude - 06-12-2003 [cool]I've taken a couple just over a hundred, with a bow and big game fishing tackle. I KNOW I would not want to try to handle one with standard fishing gear...especially without help. Alligator gars are definitely not a fish for the genteel art of solitary fishing. That is one of several species I would also not want to encounter while in a float tube. For anyone who has never seen a gar, up close and personal, they have armor plated scales that repel knives, spears, arrows and even bullets...if not hit in a vulnerable spot between two overlapping scales. The native Americans of the southeast used to use the diamond shaped scales from large gars for arrow points. There is a "supposedly true" story of a fishing camp operator along the lower Red River...between Texas and Louisiana...that loved to play a cruel joke on bass anglers. He would wait for someone to come in with a trophy bass, and would just sneer at it. When the happy fisherman reacted, the camp operator would claim that he had a pet bass that lived under the docks that could eat the trophy on the fisherman's stringer. Of course a friendly wager soon ensued and the angler would dip the bass...as instructed...into the water. The camp operator would bang on one of the boards on the dock and a huge 'gator gar would swirl up and snatch the bass from the terrified fisherman. TubeDude [signature] Re: [TubeDude] Freshwater Fishing Records - Kent - 06-12-2003 You forgot to mention the most intimidating part about an alligator gar. They get their name because their mouth looks like the mouth of an alligator! I have seen them caught in Louisiana and they make a walleye look like a pet rabbit! [signature] Re: [kentofnsl] Freshwater Fishing Records - TubeDude - 06-12-2003 [cool]I won't look for a chocolate one under my Easter tree. Here's a pic of the subject gar. On the subject of teeth, how about this Tiger Fish from Africa? [/url] [signature] Re: [TubeDude] Freshwater Fishing Records - fishboy2 - 06-13-2003 thats one mean lookin fish [signature] Re: [TubeDude] Freshwater Fishing Records - FlyFishingMoose - 06-13-2003 with teeth like that you don't worry about losing a finger, its the whole arm you need to worry about. Mean teeth! [signature] Re: [TubeDude] Freshwater Fishing Records - TubeDude - 06-13-2003 [cool]One more candidate for the "Nasty Teeth Hall of Fame"...the payara, from South America. I'll bet those Viagra-vated carp wouldn't mess with one of these. TubeDude [signature]