Look at the size of this alligator gar

he posts it on an aquarium forum because it's a huge fish. :eek:
anyways, I guess you COULD make the inch per gallon rule work... if you did some adding and multiplying the width of the body, the height, and the length of the body.... how wide was it, like 2 feet?. so you take 24 times 98 times like 24 for height....(getting out calculator)... you need 56,448 gallons. :D
 
Nice fish! For the record...I'd have shot, hooked, dynamited, whatever, that fish just to make it safer for my kids to go swimming! :D
 
:OT: hey pophead, i no this is off topic but i jus saw your status as "just pretend there is a purple string" well dont imagine anymore!

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Wow! :eek: I had no idea alligator gar got that big. I used to catch the odd one in florida while fishing for trout in brackish water, and I always thought they were neat looking. But ****, that thing would scare the **** outta me if I saw that swim by. I had no idea anything but catfish got that big in freshwater. Would those ever attack a person though? I mean, they are carnivores right? I guess the big ones like that are so rare, that the chances of a human getting bitten are pretty slim though. Something to think about though before letting the dog swim in a strange lake...LOL
 
Alligator Gar are truly a site to behold. Individuals that large are rare now due to sportfishing and the fact that it takes a very long time for a fish to grow that large.

I hunt and fish myself. Bow hunting is by far my favorite way to hunt as it presents the greatest challenge. I enjoy being in the woods. Most hunters I know are a hundred times more knowledgeable about the natural world than those I know that are against hunting. But to each their own... Bow hunting for fish seems pretty silly because the species that are legal to hunt are not the usual table fare i.e. people kill the fish just for the thrill of killing a fish. This seems pretty wasteful.

In the spring, summer, and fall, I spend as much time as I can on the water fishing. I do eat the occasional fish, but only those species that I really enjoy eating. Walleye, crappie, and bullhead are my favorite. I may keep a half dozen fish in a year. I don't keep anything unless I am going to eat it that evening. One of my favorite spring and summer activities is fishing for flathead catfish in our local SW PA rivers. They get immense and the big ones are very old. When I'm lucky enough to catch one, I always release them back in the river again, regardless how big they are. A catfish that has lived that long has earned the right to go on living the rest of his years and besides, he probably wouldn't taste that good anyway :p:

It was inevitable that we would eventually stumble upon the pro/against fishing and hunting thread. They are a mainstay on every forum, regardless of the general subject. Neither side will ever convince the other. The bottom line is that hunters want to go on enjoying their sport and anti-hunters want the ability to limit their freedom based on opinion. I say freedom is the answer. If you want to hunt and fish, take only what you will eat and do your best to leave no footprints where you travel. If you don't hunt and fish, that is your personal decision and shouldn't constitute a lifestyle that others should have to live by.

Just my .02
 
MY HUSBAND..not me, fishing for sport strengthens the breed of any fish, i do bow fish and have seen many monster gar that damage the population of sporting fish. as for cruelty, buyin two fish in a store, putting them in a glass aquarium so amonia and nitrates can build up, slowly suffocaiting them, being forced to breed with brother and sister for color for you to view, seems a hell of a lot more crueler then poking a little hole in the side of his mouth. also, fishing.. as with hunting, cuts down on over population of animals, it weeds out the old and the sick and the weak. if we didnt hunt say... deer, in maybe 3 years time the population of deer would plumate causing an eco disater.. as for education, michigan sells more deer hunting permits than any other state in the union and has the highest deer population. that sounds pretty healthy to me. and as for fish, anybody who knows anything about blue gill knows that they will stunt themselves and not even grow if no one fishes them.
GaryCzo.. NRA life member.
 
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MY HUSBAND..not me, fishing for sport strengthens the breed of any fish, i do bow fish and have seen many monster gar that damage the population of sporting fish. as for cruelty, buyin two fish in a store, putting them in a glass aquarium so amonia and nitrates can build up, slowly suffocaiting them, being forced to breed with brother and sister for color for you to view, seems a hell of a lot more crueler then poking a little hole in the side of his mouth. also, fishing.. as with hunting, cuts down on over population of animals, it weeds out the old and the sick and the weak. if we didnt hunt say... deer, in maybe 3 years time the population of deer would plumate causing an eco disater.. as for education, michigan sells more deer hunting permits than any other state in the union and has the highest deer population. that sounds pretty healthy to me. and as for fish, anybody who knows anything about blue gill knows that they will stunt themselves and not even grow if no one fishes them.
GaryCzo.. NRA life member.
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I was about to go down the same road with my comments. The most expert of fish keepers lose a few fish here and there.... We keep fish in glass cages for our enjoyment, not in their natural environment where they can grow to full size, etc. While I think it would be prudent to tighten conservation efforts for some species, sport fishing and hunting is just the same as the anti hunters/fishers going to the supermarket and buying a steak, or fillet of fish.
 
i feel that so long as the meat doesn't go to waste, and the population of whatever animal stays strong, go ahead and hunt and fish as much as you want!
 
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