Jeremy Wade holds a nearly 7-feet-long, 111-pound alligator gar with Mark Spitzer and guide Bubba Bedre.
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The front part of the alligator gar's mouth acts like a shopping cart, a place to store food. This makes it tricky to land one.
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Alligator gar, like all fish, should be put back into the water as soon as possible. Once the fish can hold itself upright and propel itself unaided, it can be released.
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This alligator gar in River Monsters were caught in the Trinity River in Texas. The river, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, is winding and muddy with lots of dead wood.
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High summer and low water is the hot time for gar, but you'll need an airboat to navigate the river because of all the hidden tree stumps.
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The remains of an alligator gar on the shore of the Trinity River.
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