<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#66ff66;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/97b53ad6-25a8-4056-a0ba-f9e858e63b78/1A4F8DCB-60C3-4A68-8EBC-2189CEE58FF9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar" href="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar" style="font-size: 11px;">delightnature.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar">Alligator Gar</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar"><DIV class="postinfo"><SMALL><A rel="tag" href="http://delightnature.com/tag/alligator"></A> </SMALL> </DIV> <DIV class="entry"> <P> <A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar1.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="306" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar1-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 1" title="Alligator Gar 1" /></A></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar">The alligator gar is a much misunderstood sport-fish in America, it being the second largest freshwater fish here. There are very little true things that are in print about these great fish - <BR />they are a very long lived fish, with no natural predators except man. <BR />They grow very fast in the first 1 to 2 years being able to obtain weights up to 20 lbs the first year, after this spurt of growth they slow down and grow all the rest of their life, <BR />with life spans being upwards of 75 years. <BR />They will feed on anything from birds, to fish with anything in between being taken. <BR />They are at the top of the food chain in their environment, and they are also very fast, <BR />hunting type fish, not a lay in wait type of fish. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar">The gar obtain 200+ lbs here quite often with numerous fish being taken above 100 lbs weekly. <BR />The maximum size of this giant is probably around 400 lbs - <BR />Kirk’s biggest Alligator Gar weighed 365 lbs and it was 9 ft 6 in long !</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://delightnature.com/animals/alligator-gar"><BLOCKQUOTE><P align="justify"></p> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar2.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="528" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar2-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 2" title="Alligator Gar 2" /></A> <A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar3.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="343" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar3-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 3" title="Alligator Gar 3" /></A> <A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar4.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="602" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar4-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 4" title="Alligator Gar 4" /></A> <A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar7.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="343" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar7-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 7" title="Alligator Gar 7" /></A><A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar5.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="298" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar5-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 5" title="Alligator Gar 5" /></A> <A href="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar6.jpg"><IMG width="454" height="343" border="0" src="http://delightnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/alligatorgar6-thumb.jpg" alt="Alligator Gar 6" title="Alligator Gar 6" /></A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A4F8DCB-60C3-4A68-8EBC-2189CEE58FF9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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