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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 25, 2007 10:01:27 GMT -5
State confirms record gar --------------------------------------A new Indiana state-record longnose gar has been certified by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Kevin Huber from New Harmony caught the Wabash River fish while fishing in Posey County on Oct. 10. The fish weighed 19 pounds, 4 ounces, and stretched nearly 55 inches from lip to tail. Indiana’s last record longnose gar was caught in 2004. Vernon Young Jr. landed the past state record gar on the bank of White River in Pike County. Young's record May catch weighed 18.42 pounds. Indiana record fish factoids: www.IN.gov/dnr/fishwild/recordfish/recordfish_factoids.htmHow to enter a record fish: www.IN.gov/dnr/fishwild/recordfish/record_program.htm
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Post by omegahunter on Oct 25, 2007 21:53:45 GMT -5
I can not find a picture of this anywhere yet. Somebody post it if you find it!
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Post by bsutravis on Oct 26, 2007 14:21:03 GMT -5
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Post by omegahunter on Oct 31, 2007 22:01:23 GMT -5
Thanks. I shot a gar several years ago with bowfishing equipment that was probably that size if not bigger. I was at the spillway at Glendale in Daviess County. A little girl came down the edge of the creek and asked what I was doing. I explained and she said that there was a big fish at the pool at the end of the spillway that would let her touch it and then it would swim out into the pool and come back in a little while. I walked upstream and ended up practically stepping on the gar. It was about 6 inches across the middle of the body and I thought it was a log laying at the edge of the water. I shot it, reeled it in, and then pulled the stupidest thing I could have done... I tried to pick the thing up by the arrow. It broke both steel barbs off the arrow and fell back into the water. It was gone before I could think about getting the arrow back on the bow. I guessed it at about 5 feet long. I went back the next day with a fresh arrow and shot a 36 inch gar that was little in comparison. By the looks of that picture, mine was about the same size or a little bigger.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Nov 2, 2007 10:57:20 GMT -5
I caught a huge gar a few years back while fishing on the Wabash in Harmony State Park. It never occured to me that I may have had the state record, until I went home and looked it up on the internet. My gar would have been fairly close to what that guy just caught.
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