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http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/...alligator-gar/

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...

I have caught smaller ones on baitcasting and spinning rigs, but have
never
knowingly even had a hit from one on anything on a fly rod.

R

Remind me never to go swimming there.....or even dangle a toe or any thing
else even remotely near the water...

john