By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
Whether Brent Crawford has captured the world’s largest alligator gar will never be known — his scale bottomed out emphatically at 300 pounds and he filleted the prehistoric-looking fish after attempting to obtain its weight.
But this much is clear: The gar Crawford landed while bow-fishing recently in Texas’ Lake Corpus Christie is among the largest specimens ever captured — and it was captured in a manner like no other gar captured beforehand.
(The largest-known alligator gar caught while bow-fishing weighed 365 pounds. The largest caught on rod and reel weighed 279 pounds.)
Crawford, who has lived on the lake for 20 years, was alerted to the presence of several giant gar in a wide canal feeding into the lake: an enormous female swimming with about five smaller males.
His reaction, according to the Corpus Christie Caller Times, was simply: “Oh goodness. That fish right there was…
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Man, what a great hunter! He shot the poor thing with a gun. Why didn’t he just take a picture of this magnificent prehistoric animal and leave it alone and not kill it. So now what?? Is he going to eat it? I don’t think so. I’m sure it will end up in the garbage. This was a breading female that was who knows how old. She managed to stay alive for a very long time until this idiot came along and killed it. I really think this is a sin and should be a crime. And all of these words are coming from a lifelong hunter and a fisherman. I believe in conservation and proper management of wildlife, but to do something like this to a species that is slowly but surely becoming extent should be a crime…..this is disgusting!
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