Author Topic: Worse then Jaws...Dont go wade fishing in texas. (Read 938 times)

Spatula · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2001, 01:06:00 AM »

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Originally posted by TheWobble:
SPAT.....
we are talking about grandmas now, what was your grandma? a soup spoon??

No my grandma was a Ladle. My dad was a culender, and my mum was a soup spoon.

TheWobble · « **Reply #16 on:** February 12, 2001, 01:24:00 AM »

LOL!

sling322 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2001, 12:59:00 PM »

Are you sure the world record is only 7 feet? When I was a bit younger and living in South Texas, we used to run jug lines and trot lines and stuff in the arroyos and resacas that were around where we lived. We have caught numerous yellow catfish and gar over the years. We once hooked 2 catfish on the same throw line (2 hooks spaced about 4 feet apart and a big weight on the bottom tied off to a tree on the bank) that both weighed near 50 lbs apiece. One was 48.5 and the other was around 46 or 47 lbs.....now that was fun!! We spent a couple of weeks one summer running juglines to catch gar. There was a little store near us that sold fried gar and all kinds of other specialty Mexican food items. We used to catch em and sell them to that store for $1 per pound (cleaned). They were a squeak to clean....their scales were like armor. I swear we saw a few gar in this one lake that had to be over 7 foot long. We were in a 15 foot canoe and there was at least one that we saw that had to be almost as long as the canoe. Maybe it was just the fear factor making it seem bigger, but I dont know.

mrfish · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2001, 01:17:00 PM »

wow i hadnt read this one yet - wobble if i meet you i owe you a beer, really - your imagination is wild man -

ps - your life is still bellybutton (whatever that means)

TheWobble · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2001, 04:49:00 PM »

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Are you sure the world record is only 7 feet

OFFICAL RECORD, thats the catch, Im sure if one tried the record would fall quite quickly, Im sure that many have been caught that are MUCH larger than that.

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ps - your life is still ass

Eat toejam Cremo...or gar if you prefer.

sling322 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2001, 06:52:00 PM »

Damn...I could probably blast that damn record all to hell if I had to courage to get in a small boat on that small lake and try to catch that big ole bastige.

Oh well, I guess I wont have my chance at immortality in the fishing record book.

Gadfly · « **Reply #21 on:** February 13, 2001, 08:17:00 PM »

Biggest record I could find is from my own area, where I spent many a summer watersking: Nassau Bay Tx(Houston), a 186 Pound alligator gar. On 30# line, no Less! That is about an 8-9 foot gar at least.

As a kid living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I remember 200# plus gars being weighed in at the Fourth of July Fishing Rodeo, but they caught them with wire line.

(IGFA World Record Gamefishes, 2000)

TheWobble · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2001, 11:03:00 PM »

There are some giants out there, if ya want a chance at bagging a real moster go to the spillway behind the lake Texana dam (texas), im sure there have been several caught there that would beat the world record.

SOB · « **Reply #23 on:** February 14, 2001, 12:56:00 AM »

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Originally posted by TheWobble:
Eat toejam Cremo...or gar if you prefer.

I think maybe your eyesight is bellybutton Wobble, that was Mr Fish!

SOB

TheWobble · « **Reply #24 on:** February 14, 2001, 01:46:00 AM »

ROFLOL!!! sorry cremo!

Creamo · « **Reply #25 on:** February 14, 2001, 02:09:00 AM »

Themouthpiece tell a bigfish story? Naw...

Man that first photo is comically bad.

I'd say the creator needs this-

Suave1 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 14, 2001, 10:26:00 AM »

300cm in length and about 170kg is the max size for this fish according to most sources I've read . And yes that photo is a ridiculous fake . Here is a site with some good gar info .
http://lionfish.ims.usm.edu/~musweb/atraspa.htm

sling322 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 14, 2001, 11:53:00 AM »

Ya know, now that I look at that photo again, its hilarious. It looks like something we used to do with pictures. You stand far behind the fish and get the person to take the picture from up close....once the picture is developed, if its done right it makes the fish look ridiculously large.

Dont know if I am explaining that correctly, but I think you understand what I am trying to say.

Suave1 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 14, 2001, 02:12:00 PM »

Actually the fish is superimposed . You can tell by the shading. Look at where the shadowing is on the fish, compare that with the shadowing on the men . On the men the light is coming from a different direction .

sling322 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 14, 2001, 02:46:00 PM »

I see what ya mean Spatula....I thought maybe that could be attributed to a flash on the camera making the fish seem brighter.