Not bad for a weekday. We started in the lake then made our way to the river working our way up the vicious Texas freshwater food chain until we were face to face with a living dinosaur.
7 foot 2 inches of prehistoric Texan alligator gar making that the third gar over 100 pounds for the year. I have a goal of tagging and releasing 30 alligator gar over 100# for 2017. I am not in any competition with anyone but i will be fishing hard this year. We fished through cold water temps and rising water levels but read the river just right to put us in a collision course with North America's largest predatory fish.

Each and every encounter with 7+ foot gar is...well there really aren't words for it honestly. Thank you big gar i wish you many more years in your river.
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nice

Nice work! Great fish. In my more ignorant days, 50 years or so ago, I speared one while scuba diving in Lake Travis, and looking for carp. The gar was longer than I was tall, and I was over 6 feet at the time. He gave me quite a ride!

Awesome

Nice!

good job on the catch & release