I can't wait to move to Texas and fish for Gar.

Up here we fish for Sturgeon. Only allowed to keep two this year and then no more retention for who knows how long.

Also we can only keep them on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

We can only keep between 38"-54" measured from the nose to the fork of the tail.

This video pretty much says it all.

Inks lake had some huge ones seen them at the wee hours in the mourning.

One of the big problems here is most people do not know an Alligator Gar from a Long nose Gar. You see a gar and automatically call it a "Gator Gar".

There are NO Gator gar in Inks lake! There are some big Long nose gar. In fact they get up to 6 ft. long.

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Hey guys lets think about this logically. Alligator gar are mainly a river/estuary fish inhabiting areas natively that do not provide good bass fishing. I am not trying to say they do not live in the same areas because they do. What I am saying is that the ideal habitat for each one is different. I don't know if any of you have ever fished Sam Rayburn or Lake Livingston, but neither one of those lakes has issues with game fish populations and they also have large populations of long nose gar ad alligator gar, which were living in the rivers that were impounded to make those lakes before the lakes were made. Our lakes are not natural habitats anyway, but TPWD does a good job of managing them in a manner that allows most people to enjoy fishing on them, regardless of which chosen species we are talking about. The truth of the matter is that people fly from all over the world to come to Texas and rod and reel fish for alligator gar. There is no good reason why they should not be treated with more respect by the angling community. It is true that at one time Texas Parks and Wildlife tried to get rid of them, but the state has changed its stance on them and the angling community in general is lagging behind on it. Alligator gar are never going to eat all the large mouth bass, crappie, catfish etc. Sure they eat some of them, but all of those fish eat each other as far as fish go if it fits in a mouth it is food. What is going to eat a 3 pound carp or buffalo? Not a bass. Blue cats, flatheads, and alligator gar are the only thing that are going to do any decent population control on fish such as carp and buffalo. I have nothing against carp and buffalo mind you, but to keep balance something has to eat them. Flatheads and blues eat just as many game fish as the alligator gar if not more but the populations remain stable. If the alligator gar was native to some other country most people here would pay thousands to fly over seas and fish for them and brag about it. I think there is ample evidence and justification to consider them game fish. For their part I respect the desire of the bowfishermen to pursue them, and provided they respect bag limits I am ok with allowing them to continue using a bow to take them. As far as bag limits go a fish harvested with a rod and reel is as dead as one harvested with a bow. As far as that subject goes I think as long as bag limits are followed people should be allowed to harvest game by any means. That goes for using them as bait too, which some states allow.