need a better look at it..... but it looks like a shortnose to me..... but that would be a massive shortnose though............ definately not a spotted or a longnose haha

 

A dead one for sure.Looks like a great ole big shortnose to me to.But I wouldn't know the difference between one of those and a little gator gar since I aint ever seen a gator gar.I hear gg have two rows of teeth.

 

me either but i heard gg only have 2 rows of teeth when they mature?

 

looks like a shortnose gar!!!!!

 

Seen one that was 4 times as big as this one! He was VERY close! He would be hard pressed to swim through a 5 gallon bucket! I think it is a short nose, but the other one I saw would pass for a alligator gar any day! Seeing the "big boy" got me to thinking. Alligator Gar are not supposed to be in the spot I shot this fish. If they are short nose the "one that got away" will be a trophy for sure, if not a record of some sort.

Thanks

 

you got any more pictures?

 

That's a nice shortnose.... :tu:

 

sure looks like a young Gator gar to me see if he has three rows of the large teeth. For better outdoors take a kid hunting & fishing it's our future. Randy

 

X-2

 

shorty

 

Im going with small Gator Gar hard to tell from the pics but its that or a MONSTER Short Nose but Im thinking GATOR GAR!

 

G G

 

head ain't near thick enough for my toughts for it to be a gador gah

 

Thinkin the same thing

 

Guessin Gator Gar

 

Gator GAH.... what lake where you on that might help determine?

 

Yeah Def Gonna Go Wida Gada Ger

 

the more i look at it im gunna have to say a gator gar as well

 

short nose

 

Gonna go with shortnose. Shot one last year that was every bit of 5 ft long, and there are no gator gar where I am yet

 

Hard to tell. Did you weigh it? Cause the Texas state record was on Lake Lavon, weighed 11.15 pounds and measured over 37 inches.

 

Thanks for all the replies, looks like a good question so far.

I shot it last summer and remembered wondering about him that night when I was going through some pics. I labeled him a shortnose that night because of the area. Have seen several others, in fact this one was part of a pair. The only thing that makes me question is seeing the one that dwarfed this one. I have fished the trinity and have seen G G in the water and in the boat, the big one sure looked like a GG to me, but I dont even remember looking at his head. This was a buddies spot on a small lake and I dont want to throw him under the bus, plus I want to go back. It is not a big river lake and there are not supposed to be GG there for sure. Still leaning twords Shortnose, the fish is long gone, and I dont have any better pics, I will see if my buddy does.

Thanks for the help

 

Longnose with his bill broke off.

 

I would say shortnose until we see it from the top of the head. From the side they are very similar. Yeah I agree the bigger one is a gator gar.....never heard of a shortnose getting more than 3ft.

 

txpred

OK here is the only pic I have of his head, its a really crappy pic, but you can at least see a different angle.

So now what do you think?

 

I'd bet my last dollar it aint a gator gar

 

yep me too...i thought it was at first, but not now.

 

Thats a spot for sure look at that pic close and you can see them on the nose

 

or shornose hard to tell but aint no gator gar

 

With that last pic, i'd probably go with good size short-nose gar.