New Record Alligator Gar?

I have no idea how this incredible fish flew under the radar, but here it is in all its glory! This massive alligator gar was caught in May 2009 and is potentially the new world record caught with a bow and arrow.


This alligator gar was 8 foot, 3 inches long and weighed 230lbs! Caught by Johnny Morris of Bass Pro Shops


John Paul Morris posing with the giant beast!

Caught while fishing with the Garzilla Guide Service.

via WSJ.com

17 Comments
February 13, 2010 by Clive Mathias

Filed Under: Alligator Gar, Bow Fishing, Fishing, Freshwater Species, News, United States, World Records
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17 Comments on “New Record Alligator Gar?...”

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  • avatar chris
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    Those things scare me.

  • avatar woody
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    That’s another big Fish gone for someone’s 2 minutes of glory.

  • avatar Jonathon Marshall
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    It’s my understanding that bowfishing for gar is done for ecological reasons, these are a tenacious species that will eat everything that swims. Consider how many trophy bass that guy probably ate per year!

  • avatar woody
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    Yeah point taken!…Always seems a shame that’s all when the big ones ‘get it’!

  • avatar Taylor Rickett
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    Yeah, gar can be taken without too much worry because they can be voracious and have really adverse effects on the system they’re in unless its a natural habitat for them.

    Almost caught a little two-footer here in Indiana last year. He bit my pencil bob and kept playing with it, but no interest in anything set deeper than the surface. Weird fish.

  • avatar Brad Orcutt
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    I wouldn’t want to be in the water knowing that monster, or ones like it are swiming around. We have them here in the Ottawa too but I have only seen ones around 3ft just catchin’ some rays at the top of the water. Any big fish is awesome in my books!

  • avatar cbiegel
    1 year, 12 months ago #

    I wonder if they ate any of it. Seems a shame to kill it if you aren’t going to eat it.

  • avatar sbindman
    1 year, 8 months ago #

    It’s a shame to keep a fish that size rather than release it.

  • avatar steve clements
    1 year, 8 months ago #

    It does seem a shame to kill such a magnificent creature, they are part of the ecosystem as such and will provide the balance that nature intended. By killing off the largest predators does this lead to an explosion in smaller predators to take the biomass place?

  • avatar Upperhand
    11 months, 4 weeks ago #

    The World Record for Alligator Gar is 279lbs. held by Bill Valverde caught in 1951.

  • avatar Wendy Berrell
    11 months, 3 weeks ago #

    Complete fallacy regarding “improving the ecosystem” by shooting gar.

    Too bad folks have to get jollies by posing with magnificent animals after they’ve killed them… with zero intention to eat them. I’m all for fish harvest for consumption. But not for grip and grin photos, followed by discard.

  • avatar Rick@Learn about Kayak Fishing
    11 months, 3 weeks ago #

    So much to the subject “Catch and Release”. I seriously doubt a big Alligator Gar like that was edible.

  • avatar dan tibot
    9 months, 1 week ago #

    How can something killed with a bow and arrow even end up on “fishing” site?? Sensless slaughter, crazy yanks!

  • avatar Jonathon Marshall
    9 months, 1 week ago #

    Dan, two words- BOW FISHING. Yea, it’s a thing.

  • avatar Andrew
    9 months, 1 week ago #

    Down here in Florida, the biggest I’ve caught is around 5 feet, using a treble hook and a dead bream. They put up a hell of a fight for a fresh water fish.

  • avatar Holland
    5 months, 3 weeks ago #

    Fuck you bowfishers how low are you guys??

    kill a fish and pull it out of the water just for a fucking picture

  • avatar Jonathon Marshall
    5 months, 3 weeks ago #

    haters gonna hate

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