Big, Nasty, World Record
 

Well we just got the line-class world record gar back from steve german's taxidermy and it looks nasty! er, um.. awesome!.
"Big Nasty" as we affectionatly call it, is a certified line class record holding fish and it's credentials are being framed so they can be displayed with the mount. the gar was caught by steve cross in the intercoastal canal, in august of last year.
this beast was caught using a shimano convergence rod with a shimano 200e7, spooled up with 15# big game! yeah 15# big game!!:shaking: . steve and his buddy robert prejean were fishing for trout with live mullet. he was actually using a zoom horny toad hook with the screw-lock when he hooked the giant fish. unreal, huh? :*****: after a nearly 4 hour fight.. the fish and the record was steve's.
Big Nasty is on permenant display now, so y'all feel free to stop in the tackle box in sulphur to get an up-close look at this special giant.

Holy ****

I hate a gar, but they did a GREAT job on that thing. looks fantastic

Can a asterisk get a weight and a length???

my bad , i forgot... 74.50lbs for sure and just over 6' i believe... #7 in the state.

We caught a few over 100 lbs in the past but never any that size on a rod n reel

that is a fantastic mount. don't know if I would have dragged that beast in the boat with me...

Mouf full a teeth
 

Man that's a beast,
As many monster gar as we see in the pits along La1 i figured that a 75 lb fish wouldn't even rank. But i guess that not that many are landed on rod an reel. Makes me wonder where the one i caught would rank.
Never even thought to weigh or measure.

yea i think after i saw his head come out the water, i would have cut the line!!!

thats a cool mount! I'll have to stop by and check it out in person!

He musta had a steel leader or something tough?
Them teefs would cut a small mono line quick fast and in a hurry.
I'da ate dat sumbeeotch.

The dink rig :*****:

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no leader, they were trout fishing with live mullet. 15# big game mono tied directly to a zoom horney toad hook.. (i couldnt make this crap up!) hooked it in the nose. steve told me that the line just above the hook was ok... but the line from about 2 inches above the hook was gnarled all to h*ll for about 5 feet.. he was as suprised as anyone that the line held.

I hate to tell you but big gar are caught like that all the time while trout fishing biglake on small line, just nobody cares enuff to go thru all the trouble to have a line class record for garfish

Wow! nice catch. Mr. Steve did a great job. I'll bet she looks better dead than she did alive. She looks like more than 74.5 lbs. Good catch!

well scooter, u aint hurtin my feelins, it isn't my fish. and apparently some people DO care enough, thats why there are names and weights in the 'alligator gar' category in the louisiana state record books! :shaking:

i didnt see anything in this article about the fish u mentioned in your post... i saw a giant catfish in there.. :confused:

I have caught Gar that big, but it was with a 3/4" pipe with a union on the end.
Not on mono line of any size. Dat thing musta been a fight on light tackle.
I saw a kid fighting something in the canal behind the weirs a few months ago,
he pulled anchor and let the fish pull the boat around for about 30 minutes, then
the line broke. No one on any of the boats ever saw what it was.

yeah man, you should hear these guys tell the story of this epic battle between man and beast lol :rotfl:.. it's really great.. from the motor's pull-start rope breaking, to the 'co-angler' jumping out of the boat to keep it from drifting into crab pots. it's a really good story with a great ending. the american press did an article when it was caught, it's being framed to displayed with the certifications.

Yea, that's why I removed the post. I'll have to find the correct link. A pic of the fish and my buddy was in LSM last month. He just got the call last week that the fish was certified as a line class record.

My kind of fish. LOL

Eman,
That one you caught along La 1 was a beast.

Me and Waltrip are going this eekend and beat that record!!!