Congrats Texans on "Noodling" but this is why I won't try it.

[LilIrishTemper]

7-foot, 165 lb. alligator gar caught in Red River

He caught it on a pole, I sure as hell ain't putting my arm in some deep dark hole in the Red River. hnoes:

 

[San Antone RR]

Wow. Big ass trash fish. Too bad someone had to introduce these to our waterways.

 

[Dawico]

That is one huge Gar. Looks like the show "River Monsters" has a new location to check out.

 

[1rightguy]

Hell to the no, I won't be noodling.

 

[texas_teacher]

I think that gar's mouth looks like it is hungry for a stick of die-no-mite...

 

[DBDawg]

Those are all over...we caught a six footer in Burnett Bay in Baytown when I was a kid.

 

[Wolfwood]

trash fish?

i hear they is good eatin'

this is why i always take a .22 fishin' with me though. never know when you might catch something as big as you...

 

[hkusp1]

My cousins noodle and I just watch with a trauma kit incase someone gets a hand bit off.

 

[chubbyzook]

Alligator gar is actually pretty good

 

[jasont]

Wow. Big ass trash fish. Too bad someone had to introduce these to our waterways.

Alligator Gar are native fish.

 

[San Antone RR]

Alligator Gar are native fish.

Yup. I was thinking carp. I still consider them trash fish even though I understand they are edible.

 

[zembonez]

I'll stick to the hook, line, and beer fishing method.

 

[Dawico]

Even if Gar are good eating, the bigger any fish gets the worse the meat is usually.

I think I'll keep my fishing poles a little longer also.

 

[jordanmills]

And some people wonder why I carry my handgun when I go fishing.

 

[Wolfwood]

I'll stick to the hook, line, and beer fishing method.

that works pretty damn well in the comal river if you are fishing for drunk college chicks... but you have to put the beer on the hook

 

[scap99]

Mambo seafood has gar on their menu. Can't bring myself to order it though....

I walked through a dried tank/pond out in Garwood one goose season and was freaked out by all the dinosaur fossils poking up out of the dried mud until I realized what they were. That's one freaky looking fish, and freshwater fish ain't supposed to have teeth!