A father and son from Alabama caught an alligator gar on Thanksgiving and the 100-plus pound fish was officially recognized as a new state fishing record in January 2023.
Alligator gar are a ray-finned euryhaline fish that have broad snouts and fang-like teeth. The species can be found in North America and inhabit freshwater and brackish water. Here's a look at the alligator gar Keith Dees, and his son, Huntley, caught from the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which broke Alabama's state fishing record for alligator gar.
Dees reportedly called Jim Daugherty, a conservation enforcement officer with the ADCNR’s Freshwater Fisheries Division , to inform the agency that the alligator gar might be a record breaker. He then got in touch with Tommy Purcell, a fisheries biologist at the WFF, who agreed to be the record inspector, the ADCNR reported.TEEN CATCHES GIANT CATFISH MINUTES AFTER DOUBTING HER LUCK, FATHER SAYS "Where do you keep a 7-foot-long fish?" Dees said, in a statement to the ADCNR."You can’t freeze the fish. My buddy had an old swimming pool, so we put him in the pool at 3 o’clock. He was still alive at 9." Huntley, a junior angler from Fruitdale, Alabama, is pictured with the record-breaking alligator gar that he and his father caught on Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 2022.in Baldwin County with tarps and ice. The facility was closed, but locals helped Dees get in contact with Orange Beach Marina Harbor Master Jimmy Beason, who traveled to the marina and weighed the alligator gar, according to the ADCNR. Dees took his certification paperwork to the WFF’s District V office in Spanish Fort, Alabama, and submitted it to Purcell for species confirmation. The WFF officially recognized the alligator gar as a new state record in early January, the ADCNR reported in its press release.In the state of Alabama, the daily bag limit for alligator gar is one, according to Daugherty. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta is Alabama's largest river delta and wetland. It reportedly measures around 260,000 acres. Alligator gar and other fish can be found in its waters.major rivers, streams and adjacent coastal waters, according to the ADCNR. "I think anything that draws attention to the Delta is a positive," Dees told the ADCNR."Where else can you go to catch the variety of fish in the Delta in the fall… It’s just a neat, neat place."
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