Texas fisherman prevails in epic battle with enormous alligator gar

Posted on June 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

Reblogged from The Jeenyus Corner:

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By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

Whether Brent Crawford has captured the world's largest alligator gar will never be known -- his scale bottomed out emphatically at 300 pounds and he filleted the prehistoric-looking fish after attempting to obtain its weight.

But this much is clear: The gar Crawford landed while bow-fishing recently in Texas' Lake Corpus Christie is among the largest specimens ever captured -- and it was captured in a manner like no other gar captured beforehand.

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2 Responses to Texas fisherman prevails in epic battle with enormous alligator gar

  1. Mark Hornsby | June 22, 2012 at 19:00 |

    Man, what a great hunter! He shot the poor thing with a gun. Why didn’t he just take a picture of this magnificent prehistoric animal and leave it alone and not kill it. So now what?? Is he going to eat it? I don’t think so. I’m sure it will end up in the garbage. This was a breading female that was who knows how old. She managed to stay alive for a very long time until this idiot came along and killed it. I really think this is a sin and should be a crime. And all of these words are coming from a lifelong hunter and a fisherman. I believe in conservation and proper management of wildlife, but to do something like this to a species that is slowly but surely becoming extent should be a crime…..this is disgusting!