For fish size equals space. I have seen 4 foot long gold fish.I can even tell where they are a whole school of them. If you keep a gold fish in a small bowl it will get to a certain size and stop growing.I have seen fishermen land alligator gar as large as 10 feet.I have heard of Gar getting up to 14 feet long.Imagine this guy as large as a shark.

Yea its a 'gator gar. them things get real big. actually, it's something to do with living in the water, gravity doesnt affect the growth of fish like it does everything else so they basically never stop growing. These gars can get over 10ft long...

defninently an alligator gar

come on now people. this is definately an alligator gar. i am 100% positive because i believe the photo was taken in texas. being from texas myself, i personally have caught many alligator and needle-nosed gar, albeit not as big as this one. case closed.

that is an aligator gar, not an ariwana ..

No such critter as a "saltwater gar" they are typically fresh water but can and do thrive in brackish water depending on the salinity level.

Can you spell Alligator Gar, a Muskies not even in the same family a Musky is the largest member of the pike family. Alligator Gars are the largest member of a prehistoric plated fish not having typical scales. A bowfin is a shorternosed close relative of the Gars without the elongated nose and smaller teeth rather then the needle like teeth of the gars. Gar roe makes ecellent panfis bait but dont eat it's poisonous.

it looks almost like a pike, but it's obviosly to large, I'd have to agree with the others, it's an Alligator Gar

100% Alligator gar and they commonly reach weights of 200lbs and better.

that is a saltwater gar and not a particularly big one, there are larger ones at the corpus cristi aquarium.

it's amazing what kind of creatures live in the ocean

It's a big fish all right, but I wonder how far behind the fish the person is?

When I was stationed in Louisiana we used to fish for those alligator gars. I've seen many of them and they put up one heck of a fight. You ought to see how you have to fish for them, a noose with the hook dangling down from the top of the noose.

I wouldn't say a garr, possibly, but definitely a muskie, same thing as a garr, but incredibly huge

It's not a sturgeon, but a Lepisosteus spatula ( Syn. Atractosteus spatula), also called Alligator gar.

It could be a sturgeon.

A sturgeon maybe?

Alrighty people, this is an Alligator Gar!! It is usually found in areas like FLorida and the Southern USA!! google gar and Alligator GAr!!! you will find a crapload of info on them!!!

The largest scaled freshwater fish in the world, Arapaima reach lengths of up to 3 metres and weigh up to 200 kg along with another more commonly known South American fish, the much smaller Arowana.In Guyana, Arapaimas are found mainly in the Essequibo and Rupununi River and Amazon River Basin.

that is one weird fish ... and there's a huge fish dangling on a string on that photo, too ...

It´s just a pirarucu( "peereroocoo" ), a brazilian amazon fish.Aruană ("Arowanna" is a smaller amazon fish).

Ah, the alligator garr, one of nature's sexier pocket knives.

I should get one of those and put it in my ex-boyfriends new girlfriends pool. That'll be the end of her!

It looks like an Arowanna (spelling is off) There are huge fish like this in the Amazon rivers.

Alligator gars can get as big as an alligator. Huge fish, but they got lots of teeth, and you need a net because they'll bite through the line. You need to kill them right away, because they won't stay on a stringer. Either smashing its head open with a hammer, or stepping on its head. They get meaner when they spawn, though.

why'd he kill it?

Looks alot like an Alligator Garr found in the Southern United States

Ew.. It reminds me of this fist my brother cought at my uncles river. bleh

I hate those things. They have them at the aquarium and...ugh.

It's a Garr, and they get bigger.

Wow that's some fish! I seen large catfish but they seem fake. This pic really looks real. Nice pic.