Your source is an mfk member? "suspected to be a Gator X Longnosed". That does not verify it was, it's simply speculated to be. My source is a published book by Erin Holm and Mary E. Burridge curators, ichthyology in the royal Ontario museum as well as Nicholas E. Mandrak a research scientist with fisheries and oceans Canada. Published world record long nose gar is the size I posted. I will go by the (Fairly credible source) over an mfk members comment