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Offline Bushman452

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Alligator gar versus ELB
« on: April 15, 2009, 11:23:24 pm »
Alligator gar are the biggest and toughest fish you can kill with a bow and arrow. Think about a bowfisherman taking on a 10 foot gator gar with a English longbow he made himself. You do you think will win.



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Offline Pat B

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2009, 01:05:51 am »
That's cool. I'm trying to come up with a primitive arrow and head that would work on one of those big rascals. Curtis Keller bow fishes for them in Texas and I'm trying to figure out a set up that could handle a fish like that. Is there a story that goes along with that pic?
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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2009, 01:30:17 am »
I don't know who he is, but the poor feller looks worn out.
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Offline Little John

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2009, 10:27:47 am »
What an awsome fish, I don't think they get that big any more. Probably never get to live that long, altho I have seen them up to 5-6 ft . I do belive that a well placed arrow will kill about any thing even giant fish.    Kenneth
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2009, 05:33:31 pm »
My word! It can't just be nostalgia of old photos that really gets me excited for a hunt, but modern photos just don't seem to have the same effect. There isn't the same tug on the soul, the draw to the simplistic and forever rustic longbow...
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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2009, 07:30:11 pm »
Sorry folks but I have to say it....Looks photo shopped to me!  ;D ;D
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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2009, 08:09:16 pm »
Quote from: Timo on April 16, 2009, 07:30:11 pm
Sorry folks but I have to say it....Looks photo shopped to me!  ;D ;D


You could be right....might be hard to hang that Anal Fin so straight down on the Board....but if it is Shopped....they did a good job with the Shadows under the Plank and all
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Offline PeteC

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2009, 08:33:07 pm »
As far as size is concerned,that is no big stretch.I've seen them myself that big and bigger.When I lived in south Texas,I fished Choke Canyon,which was a newly filled lake on the Frio river,and San Miguel creek.One day while sculling my canoe down a flooded sendera,I heard a commotion I was sure was being caused by a big bull gator.But is was'nt,it was a pair of the 2 biggest gar I've ever laid eyes on.One of the monsters came gliding out of the flooded brush and right under me.I know it was 12 feet long,and I could'nt begin to hazard a guess to it's weight.It was huge,with a girth about the size of an oil drum.As he came under me I jobbed him with my paddle.When he accelerated,he displaced so much water,I was nearly tossed out of the canoe.I went back to the area to try to find them again ,but they were gone by then. We also have huge gar in the Trinity river,some big enough,that if they roll near the boat,it'll nearly give you the willys.We don't have  near as many as there used to be.It's big buisness guiding gator gar hunts. God Bless
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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2009, 12:58:40 am »
Curt Keller sent me a few pieces of skin from a 5" alligator gar. The scales would make excellent bleeder blades for primitive arrows and they covered the pieces of skin so a normal arrow with have a hard time penetrating unless you shot quartering away.
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2009, 06:33:13 am »
I've seen this picture before in outdoor magazines, I think its real but the fish appears bigger than it is due to
"perspective" the gentleman is well behind the fish making him look small in relation to the fish. No matter what its a big
honkin gar :)
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2009, 02:24:31 pm »
Anoyone see Hill's video where he, Ben Pearson, and some others shoot alligator gar?
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Offline sailordad

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2009, 11:37:38 pm »
i think a sturgoen would be tuffer toi get on bow gear than that gar would be.
for one you rarly ever see sturgoen close enough to the sirface to hit with a bow.
and if you did stick one it would probably take several people to drag it in.they are like trying to pull in a boulder.
the just sit on the bottom and dont moveunless they want to.
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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2009, 08:46:47 am »
  We bowfish them quite a bit during the summer, but they don't get that big. We also have the smaller spotted gar. As tough as they look, it's not hard to put an arrow through them, and they are quite tasty if you like lobster.
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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2009, 09:14:41 am »
I've seen some six footers below PK dam in the Brazos. shot a four footer with bow but hit him behind the dorsal - that was a purty good fight :).
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Offline Bushman452

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Re: Alligator gar versus ELB
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2009, 11:25:05 pm »
Quote from: Pat B on April 16, 2009, 01:05:51 am
That's cool. I'm trying to come up with a primitive arrow and head that would work on one of those big rascals. Curtis Keller bow fishes for them in Texas and I'm trying to figure out a set up that could handle a fish like that. Is there a story that goes along with that pic?

Yeah this fish was taken in Ohio and gator gar became extinct there I think.
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