LFS Alligator Gar

[L98Z28]

Love the price L O L ! I'd be lucky to get $25 for mine at 16 inches. Not that it matters. He's perfectly happy in a 300 for now.

I don't know what gar go for... I will say this he had EBJD's for 50.00 a pop at 1 1/2 inches!!!! Last one I bought I think it was 15.99. I so believe his prices are high lol.


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[lix.ma14]

I would say it really depends on the body of water they are in, I can't imagine how huge the ones that populated any of the great lakes could have gotten if they stayed healthy and full, I wouldn't doubt 24 feet in there, probably 90+ years old. In some river system around 12-16 feet max is what was usually found in my research on the specie, but in a massive body of water like Lake Ontario, who knows. Proof is found with lake sturgeon, in 2011 someone caught a 18 footer in Lake Erie, the smallest and most probaby dirtiest great lake. They are both very ancient fish w/ similar growth patterns

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didn't we say the gator gars were extinct in the great lakes? lol

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

fro rly? that's why I was using the past tense haha I know this, they were there at one point though, and those were probably the biggest of them were the ones who spent their lives in the great lakes

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[lix.ma14]

A 24 footer seems to be over exaggerated. The biggest one caught recently was less than 8 feet. i can't imagine one 3x bigger. Of course the true monster were already fished out decades ago.

All the pics I found were gators less than 10 feet. Anybody found any pics of 15 foot+ gars?

 

[JOSCAR05]

They had a real gator gar at my Lfs down here in Nor Cali. Much more rounded snout real thick body. Dude was tryna sell it to me for a buck fifty.


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[HungDang]

They had a real gator gar at my Lfs down here in Nor Cali. Much more rounded snout real thick body. Dude was tryna sell it to me for a buck fifty.


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all true gar are illegal in Cali!
and that fish is a true alligator gar, it doesn't look like a YOY(young of the year) fish, this fish should be over 1 year old and might be stunned if I'm not wrong.

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

A 24 footer seems to be over exaggerated. The biggest one caught recently was less than 8 feet. i can't imagine one 3x bigger. Of course the true monster were already fished out decades ago.

All the pics I found were gators less than 10 feet. Anybody found any pics of 15 foot+ gars?

that's my point, the 20 footers were probably long gone before cameras came around. In such huge bodies of water though I wouldn't doubt it. In the backwaters of texas on the Trinity some guy got either a 12 or 14 footer and had it taxidermied, its on the wall in the gator gar episode of river monsters. That's the biggest most recent wild catch I believe. I saw the trinity in houston and was talking to local fishermen, its not a big river system (as in depth and width) so the fact a 12-14 footer grew in there... imagine if that fish was let to live in a lake the size of Ontario for another 20 years, I wouldn't doubt it would be around 20 feet

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[JwHiser13]

Have know idea what kind of gar it is. That's what they are selling it as. They did have a smaller Florida gar for sale as well. No I'm not buying it. I have no means to house it down the road.

It was very tempting when the kid told me he would give me a RTC for free. That's right I said free. It has a messed up mouth. Looks like a birth defect. But for free. I love those fish, but again no means to house it.


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Man I hear ya bro! I'd love to keep the Ali gars as well! I grew an RTC out to about a foot once for my buddy's lake on his property and can say it was ALOT of fun! That free offer though it'd be really hard to pass up lol.


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[JwHiser13]

that's for sure a gator, small gators have the spots, and the definition of the snout and face is where you can tell the difference. Beautiful fish, I hope to be able to house one in a pond someday!

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Would def be a blast raising these fish! It's fun just to imagine building the enclosure lol! Fish nerd I know lol!


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[L98Z28]

Man I hear ya bro! I'd love to keep the Ali gars as well! I grew an RTC out to about a foot once for my buddy's lake on his property and can say it was ALOT of fun! That free offer though it'd be really hard to pass up lol.


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I would have jumped on the RTC if I know somebody wanted one for a pond or something. I think they where a customer drop off. one was 9 inches and the goofy mouth one was 6 inches.


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