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Had to Share Since I’ve Fished Toledo Bend Most of my Life……7/15/2024
The Sabine River was damned back in the 60s to create Toledo Bend reservoir which is a shared border between Louisiana and Texas…..the channel today is near 100 feet deep and these dinosaurs are throughout the lake….congrats to this angler on a new lake record…276 pounds..incredible fish
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on September 2, 2024 at 9:02am
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Isn’t it Tooty….hard to believe a freshwater fish can achieve this size….
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Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on August 29, 2024 at 1:23pm
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SIMPLY INCREDIBLE !
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Indeed Jim….I actually swam in this reservoir for many years when I was younger and I feel fortunate that I didn’t have a run in with a gator or a mammoth gar…..
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Comment by jim cosgrove on July 22, 2024 at 3:20pm
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That is some fish there.
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It’s a monster for sure Tracy….but in Louisiana just like all species of bream….no size restrictions or daily possession limits….I’ve only caught one or two alligator gar in this part of northeast North Carolina, we mainly have longnose gar here and we catch several hundred every year without targeting them……while growing up in Louisiana, our family targeted alligator gar pretty often…..I still have the silver dollars I received with a 123 pound rod & reel catch back in the bicentennial year on a corn cob mullet….my fish was third overall that day…..
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Comment by tracy willis on July 22, 2024 at 8:34am
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geez that thing is huge. i dont even try to fish for them here in TN. they are highly protected here.
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Comment by John Sheehan on July 22, 2024 at 5:28am
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How about that!
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Here you go John….see below comment…
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Indeed John….what folks will do in Louisiana with these large alligator gar is simple….they will chill the fish to coagulate the blood and firm up the edible flesh…..cut the rigid skin back from the flesh and use and ice cream scoop to take out balls of flesh to freeze and use in gravy or fry….they are surprisingly tasty…..
This is an example of gar balls and gravy….
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A lunker eating Fish !
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