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!!
. 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.