westsidebilly: how big do your alligator gar get?
alexrex20: however big you want
westsidebilly: we had them on our lakes, but they only got to be like 18-20"
westsidebilly: hard as to snag...
alexrex20: the biggest we can safely catch on a trout line is 200lb, but they get to like 600-700lb
westsidebilly: holy shit
westsidebilly: that'd scare me
alexrex20: when you catch one of those, you cut the line
westsidebilly:
alexrex20: or it snaps your $500 rod and pulls it into the ocean
westsidebilly: yeah... that'd piss a guy off
westsidebilly: I think the biggest fish I ever caught was a 22 lb northern...
alexrex20: once, on the brazos river we setup a trout line with 4 shark hooks and used piano wire (literally) for the leader. then the main line was braided steel
alexrex20: we went for lunch and 1hr later when we came back, my god damn truck had been pulled about 20ft through the dirt. it only stopped because of a big tree.
westsidebilly: haha
alexrex20: we were too afraid to snip the cable - it'd probably take off a few limbs from the backlash - so we had to winch it up to where we could cut the piano wires
westsidebilly: what was on the other end?
alexrex20: which end?
westsidebilly: the end in the water
westsidebilly: :-p
alexrex20: we didnt know
alexrex20: we thought it was a sunken car/truck or a bigass log
westsidebilly: oh
westsidebilly: not a fish, though
alexrex20: it wasn't really like there was a fish on it - it was just really tight
alexrex20: so i had a 7500lb winch on that er and it was having a hard time (pulling it upstream), but we finally got it close enough...
westsidebilly: sounds like a log to me
alexrex20: all 4 leaders were taut - either the log snagged 4 places or we caught 4 fish
alexrex20: nope. not a log.
alexrex20: the first leader got close enough to cut, but we played paper/rock/scissors to see who would go down and cut it. it was me. i didnt see anything moving, so i just cut it and it went downstream.
alexrex20: i lost again so i went down to cut the 2nd after winching it up some more...
alexrex20: this one had a ing fish on it. more like a whale, if you ask me, but it scared the living shit outta me when i saw the dinosaur-like tail splash out the water
westsidebilly: haha
westsidebilly: f'in whale
alexrex20: id say at least 4ft long
alexrex20: so the next to go down was my buddy dustin (the redneck in the engine photos), and he cut the wire. the dumbass thought he was hot shit also, so he almost fell into the river
westsidebilly: is this upstream or downstream of the Dow plant?
alexrex20: the last one was ryan's, but holy hell we didnt know what the it was.
alexrex20: lol
alexrex20: it had to have been a gar because it was jiggling the line big time, and swimming left and right! the sound of the cable, my trucks frame, and the winch creaking and groaning under the pressure was straight out of a horror film
alexrex20: of course, like the dumbasses we are, we wanted to keep that fish. so first we tried winching it up. nope. winch couldnt take it.
alexrex20: then i tried pulling it out with the truck. nope. just spun the tires.
alexrex20: then we tried shooting it with our guns - lord, was it a beautiful sight.
westsidebilly: haha
westsidebilly: man, you are a redneck
westsidebilly:
alexrex20: i emptied 2 clips of my .45 hydrostatic hollow-points (13rds each), and a couple 12ga slugs
westsidebilly: nice...
alexrex20: dustin had my 9mm and emtied almost 2 clips, and ryan was using a goddamn blackpowder Texas Rangers gun.
westsidebilly: well, next time you have a fishing expedition planned, let me know...
alexrex20: im not done. it gets better
westsidebilly: oh
alexrex20: so we shot and shot, but it was still alive - it never splashed but it made little whirlpool thingies, and it did go left to right
alexrex20: we busted out the 22's but obviously that didnt help
alexrex20: and we were tempted to go back to get a .50cal sniper rifle, but it was too far to walk and too heavy to carry
alexrex20: we didnt nkow what the we were gonna do...
alexrex20: we didnt have anything to cut the cable with (or the guts to do it), my truck was stuck, and we were out of ammo...
alexrex20: so we left everything there and left...
alexrex20: we came back with a caterpillar DC90 grater, 6WD
alexrex20: we attached it to the eyelet on end of cable, tightened line, then got my truck outta there... then we tried pulling the damn fish out with the tractor...
alexrex20: of course, we pulled it out... kinda. we got it to shore, but once it was halfway out of water, you gain a load of weight and friction from wet sand...
alexrex20: you have no ing idea how big this god damn whale was
westsidebilly: I can imagine, if you needed a tractor...
alexrex20: i swear if you saw it beached on shore at night, youd think it was a damn boat
alexrex20: as crudely as we could, we measured it to be like 15-16ft long, and at least 4ft wide at the belly
alexrex20: it was ing scary looking, with its fins and pointy shit like a stegosaurus
westsidebilly: !
westsidebilly: that's large
westsidebilly: in the river?
westsidebilly: how big is that river?
alexrex20: well, its a VERY BIG river
alexrex20: like 100yds across. and it was real full of water and fast moving because of a storm a few days earlier
alexrex20: finally, about 6hrs later, we decided to try and pull the fish in as much as possible and leave it overnight.
alexrex20: we were trying to kill the damn thing
alexrex20: the next morning, fully stocked on hollowpoints and slugs, we came back with a vengeance
westsidebilly: nice
westsidebilly: was it still there?
alexrex20: guess
westsidebilly: haha
westsidebilly: was your tractor still there?
alexrex20: actually, it was, but the hook on the front of the tractor was bent like 100deg
alexrex20: i have no idea how the shark hook hasnt broken yet (it's only like 10in long), or the hardware, etc., but the fish was still there.
alexrex20: we absolutely murdered it. i must say, the smell of burning alligator is not very pleasant.
westsidebilly: hah... I can imagine
westsidebilly: probably about as good as burning sheepshead
westsidebilly: or live sheepshead for that matter


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whats the point? should I read it?

 

oy!

 

that is the most outlandish story you've told yet alex!!!!

 

 

O_O Alex

 

Brian used to have a pet one in his fish tank.

 

the funny thing is, it's all true!

did i tell you about the time we went hog huntin?

 

yeah you told me that one

 

With the piranhas?