I'd like to note it was not until the past few years that there really has been any interest in these fish here on this side of the world. Before the work that some put into it to get these dang things they where pretty much a mythological monster.. Solomon in particular gets the huge giant and big kudos to really pushing them in this Hemisphere.. He was the one that really pushed hard to get the first few of these in. From there the popularity of the CBG has raised regularly resulting in many more importations into both Canada and the US.
Really gars are a very new fish to this hobby.. It has not really been 5 or so years that they really started to be a desired fish. Many I think do not remember the old days when no gars where ever around really and if they where it was either you caught them or spent $100 for a FLG.
Wow, this hobby has really come pretty far over the last few years.