Big Gar.

[BowhunterB]

We used to hook them off the Copano Bay Causeway pretty often when I was a kid. Didn't land them often since the pier is about 12-15 above the water. We used to fish for them using a Penn 209 and a heavy surf rod or off shore rod, it was good to keep is kids busy. Used to use old hardheads that people would leave on the pier, strangely enough they love hardheads.
Got one up on the pier, about like the one in Dale Moser's pick or a hair smaller, by lassoing him. Didn't have a good enough equipment to try to clean him at the time so we rolled him back in the water - looked like Clint Eastwood in hand -Em High with rope burns where we took a few scales off.

[BowhunterB]

That was supposed to be Hang 'Em High in the previous post

[bboswell]

East Bay about 6 years ago:




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East Matty or East Galv?

[Dale Moser]

East Galveston.


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[RifleBowPistol]

We used to fish the Fulton Beach Pier a lot years ago. There were both alligators and alligator gar around that pier. We had a huge alligator gar clean off our stringer one night, later I got that huge thief to take some bait, I hit him in the head with. That was the only way he would touch my bait, was after many casts, he just swam past my live perch like it was not there. So I finally threw it at him pretty hard, hit him in the head, he turned around and took the bait. That gar was big enough, that there was no fight to it. He just swam around with the bait in his mouth for 15 minutes or so, never even began to show any signs that he was hooked, but he had my rod bent over as far as it would go and ripped drag like it was nothing. He eventually just let go of the bait and swam off. That gar was at least 7 ft. long and over 1 ft. in diameter. That was in Aransas Bay, which is pure saltwater. Copano Bay, St. Charles Bay, and Aransas Bay are both full of large alligators and alligator gar. I have watched many documentaries that say both do not live in saltwater.

I have not seen them in surf, but I have seen them in saltwater many times.

[Pope]

I’ve seen monsters eating cull from shrimp boats in the harbor at Sabine Pass.

[hooligan]

I had no idea they could go to salt, I'd be done swimmin if I saw that guy