Largest Alligator Gar Ever Caught? The World May Never Know

Today I got up and went to Yahoo.com to look at the news for today much like I do everyday, and the first article I seen was about a large alligator gar caught that could be a record, when I seen this I almost fell out. I immediately clicked the article to see the picture of this monster I have been waiting for! But wait, the article says were not sure if it was a record, because the weight is not fully known...NOOOOO.

Ok so apparently a man named Brent Crawford in Texas, caught word of some big alligator gar nearby in a canal at Texas' Lake Corpus Christie, he went to investigate with his bow and encountered this giant in some shallow water. After carefully following his giant he lined up the shot and fired a direct hit, the fish according to him when crazy upon the hit, as you would imagine. But what Brent didnt count on was the nylon cord from the bow becoming tangled around his feet! Brent tried to get the line away from his feet but then got the cord tangled around his hand, it was to late the fish pulled the line and yanked BRent into the water headfirst! But get this, upon being pulled over Brent's dog, Bleux, tried to save brent from getting pulled in by grabbing the bottom of Brent's jeans, who says dogs arent man's best friends?

Brent soon after gets his hand free and the battle continues for nearly 45 minutes, before Brent gets the fish to the bank, there he jumps on the fish's back and calls for a friend who upon arriving shoot the fish to kill it. The men then use an ATV to pull the catch to Brent's house.

Ok, so here is  where this story gets bad for me, they attempt to weigh the fish, but the scale they have only goes up to 300 lbs, and as you might have figured the fish tops the scale out! It is more than 300 lbs but we don't know how much, because after measuring and weighing the fish they then filleted it, just my luck.

The largest alligator gar fish ever caught was 365 lbs oddly enough caught by bow fishing too back in 1991. This 300+ pounder just caught is by far the biggest alligator gar caught in a while, I just wish we could have known exactly how big it was. With the picture you can tell it's huge, but more than 365 lbs I don't know.

When I seen this story I immediately was happy but then sad, because as an wildlife enthusiast I love to see and big stories especially anything about large animals being found, but at the same time I'm sad to see them be killed, especially such an amazing creature that was very old. In todays mordern world it's believed that these giants were a thing of the past that you just cant find them anymore, and while that is partially true, it is nice to see that some are still out there. This was a fishing tale for the ages, and it let's us know that beautiful monsters still do exist.