Alligator Gar? This is why we DON'T dump fish in waterways

Notophthalmus said:
That's a longnose gar, which is native to the Lakes. I believe shortnose and spotted gar also naturally occur in at least parts of the Great Lakes.

The gar in the news item was an alligator gar (or at least appeared to be; I couldn't get a good enough look to rule out shorty or spotted); these are inhabitants of the lower Mississippi and other gulf drainages, and are much much larger than other gar; they can reach over 10 feet in length.
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ok cool, i had no idea, lol....I've just seen people catch the gar pike on TV and was wondering if that was maybe what they found in the vid
 
What they caught in that Tempe Arizona pond is certainly NOT indigenous to the desert, nor is it found in the mountain streams.
 
Notophthalmus said:
Alligator gar are hurting pretty badly in much of their range, and now we've found the culprit: prepubescent Arizonan fish smugglers!
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Did'nt know alligator gar were hurting. When I was a kid growing up and fishing around New Orleans, they used to choke the waterways. I used to carry a little .22 pistol in case I caught one, because you can't take the hook out of a live one, even with pliars.
 
Dangerdoll said:
that second video... what a shame... and to know that there are more like him out there that just want to do bad stuff to be like "hood-rats with his friends".
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My fav part even though its sad is when the Kid says that he hangs out with his other 7 year old friend who "smokes cigarettes"

lol

By the way that Alligator Gar story is crazy too. Do you think that kid is still walking around with that Dead Fish? LOL:grinyes:
 
Malefic23 said:
Did'nt know alligator gar were hurting. When I was a kid growing up and fishing around New Orleans, they used to choke the waterways. I used to carry a little .22 pistol in case I caught one, because you can't take the hook out of a live one, even with pliars.
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They seem to be doing better in the delta and into east Texas then they are further north. They need the extensive swamps and marshes that serve as breeding grounds for most of their prey species and habitat for the juveniles; these have been largely cleared or drained in the upper reaches of the Mississippi embayment. Wild alligator gar haven't been recorded in Tennessee since the 70's (though fishermen here tend to call ANY gar an 'alligator gar'); TWRA is currently restocking them in some of the rivers in west Tennessee.
 
In a lake in my childhood hometown my brother caught a longnose gar...a really eerie looking fish. They get up to 6 feet, although the one he caught was probably only 2 1/2 feet long.

Whenever I wiped out in a weedbed while waterskiing I'd start thinking about those things swimming around down there and kind of get creeped out. They really don't mess with folks, but I just didn't like the idea of something being down there that was as big as I was.
 
nasty lookin fish, cant believe he is walking around with it though.
 
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