On Apr 6, 9:19*am, wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 05:31:06 -0700 (PDT), Conan The Librarian
wrote:





On Apr 6, 6:59 am, wrote:
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/...ors-marvel-mas....

Upclose head shot of a different gar:

http://www.mdwfp.com/ImageUploads%5C...%20web%202.JPG

And neither of these are record-class - they're certainly large, but as the guy
says in the article, there are larger ones swimming around. Gives a whole
'nuther meaning to "rolling on the river...." (for those that aren't familiar
with these, they "roll" on the surface).

And no, AFAIK, you can't fly fish for these, unless you'd consider flinging a
chicken wired to grappling hook-sized treble with a stick of fencepipe "fly
fishing." These things eat the things that eat the things for which one would
normally fly fish down here...

* Don't know if would work for alligator gar, but for their smaller
brethren:http://www.flyfishga.com/gar.htm

Interesting. *I guess I should have figured that if folks will "fly fish" for
female marlin, they'll "flyfish" for anything that swims. *And FWIW, alligator
gar start out small, too, so I guess you could "flyfish" as above for the small
ones. *IME, to use the "rope fly" as in the link on the large gar, you'd likely
need a coupla-three feet or more of mooring hawser and a key ring to make the
fly, but ???. *And a 6" piece of bite tippet (or any of the rest of the
mentioned gear) wouldn't suffice. *IMO, this is bordering on not being
"flyfishing" anymore, but rather, using a fly rod and reel as a
quasi-baitcasting rig...hey, to each their own...

I've seen larger fish taken by gar and my grandfather had a story about seeing a
small pig swimming across a river getting taken by an alligator gar - it's been
years since I've heard it, so I don't remember all of the details, but I can say
that, IMO, casting a "fly" the size and weight of even a piglet would not be
"flyfishing" - again, that's why there's chocolate and vanilla.

TC,
R





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Any history of a human being attcked by one of these gar??