05-06-2004, 12:43 AM
[size 1]This was pretty funny at the time it happened. Me and my wife , son and Mother thought we would go do a little cat-fishin one evening under the far side BB comer bridge in Scottsboro,Al. We all got settled in planning to stay pretty late, we'd been there a hour or so before we caught the first cat, decent size, keepable anyway. The miilfo was pretty bad so you had to be careful not to lose your catch. I wasn't doing to good, just drowning a little chicken-liver. It was getting close to sundown so I started getting the laterns out and getting them ready to light, when my wife started hollering and doing that little Indian dance :-), her poll was bent like she had a monster on there. So being the man on the scene,lol, I went to the rescue, I knew she might lose it in the milfo so I grabbed her rod jumped on the rock she was sitting on an reeled like crazy. It was huge by the feel of it. I got him on top of the milfo and kinda dragged him across it, the way I pulled it ,it lodged part way under a rock. couldn't see it good for it was getting dark, my wife grabbed a latern,son right behind her with net in hand. The light from that latern hit it, never seen a mess of teeth in my life on a fish. Just as my wife come around me to see how big her cat was. It opened its mouth and that big ole snout, she seen them teeth, and how big it was, she went to backstroking, not thinking about our son behind her, she fell backwards and fell on him which in turn freaked him out, cause he didn't know what the heck was going on, I was right in the middle of them trying to help her up off him, all my Mom could do was laugh and said she wished she had a camcorder. Wife thought she had caught a alligator and was trying to get the heck out of Dodge. You had to be there to see this 3 stooges act. But it was the biggest alligator gar I had ever seen, it was right at 4and a half feet long. My son was alright,I think the wife wet herself, don't tell her I said that :-) and my Mom still talks about it. [/size]
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