I know birds will carry fish eggs from one body of water to another. There ain`t no musky in texas?

http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/def...m add a book mark to this , and pass it on when someone else needs to find a unidentified fish.

this is a redfin pickeral not listed for texas,

the chain piceral is more comon to your area, the record is 4.12#s for TEX  

and there is a grass pickeral for TEX that has a record of 7.4oz  it sounds pretty small

there may be more piceral than the three listed, but you can find them on that site, i only check the state record to see if one has been reported, so it does not mean a diffrent type has not made it in to your fishin hole... hope it helps, fish on!

YEPPERS, THEM "GATOR-GARS" HAVE ALOT A TEETH! THEY BE IN TEXAS WATERS (FRESH) L8r. James "VATO LOCO"<;({})><

The current Wo

Mike

The current IGFA World All Tackle Gar Record is:

279 lbs 0 oz. out of the Rio Grande river in Texas.

**!!The picture is NOT the wr!!**

Mike

"THAT SURE BE A "NICE FISH"!* "THANX" FOR SHARIN'! "TAKE CARE" L8r. James,"VATO LOCO"~<;({})>*<

GAR< FORSURE<<<<<

Howdy and welcome to the forum. I hope to see you at one of our chapter meetings, as well as the annual meet. The chapter is convenient locetd in San Antonio.

First, howdy and welcome to the forum.

It does sound like you have Gar there, just like the others mentioned.

Hope to see you at our annual Texas meet, perhaps even the chapter meetings and events.

did you guys read his discription? he said "was very beautiful" that don't sound like gar to me unless'n your it's mother, lol!

a pic would help if you git one.... and look threw that site i posted to see if you find it.... a gar is pretty wild and noticeabel with a long nose and sharp teeth, all of them share that incomon ,so that should be easy to find out.. but to me being as i have never caught pike muskie pikeral are all the same, or i would not know one from the other till someone told me...lol .. i could think a pickeral was a baby muskie or a some other pike.....

hey kia hope you git a few more peeps for your meet! i love what you are doing!!!

heres all the gar i can find, and i guess they look nice, but it's a picture, they don't look so nice flopin in the boat with all dem teeth,lol...i guess any "fish swimin free" looks beautiful

flordia gar looks kinda perr~tea, but only found in flordia, or not caught and noticed anywhere else yet

aligator gar

long nose gar

spotted gar

yep they fight good! i never had a gar on a fishin pole tho`,  but i have caught some big un's( to me) on jugs as kids, when a fish can hold a 2 litter jug down for 10 miutes and travel a quarter mile it is awsome! as the fish hears your boat comin it dives and if you see the jug  drop effortlessly to the depths just shut down the motor and wait, bring the binoculars for the re bound, a 20+# is able to do it let alone some of those 100+#  beast , you might want to up size to a 55gallon jug if you want big ones to come back up the same day!lol... um some guys put a jug float or ballons on there baited  rigs  here, i bet it would help fight a huge fish! keeping pressur on the hooks/fish but not so much on your rig... can you imagine a 100# gar hit a lure on 10# test, it would spool ya, unless you use you boat as the jug and let him pull you around a bit! then to regain line run with him! i can't wait for that 20+# striper in the canoe, hell a 7# striper takes us for a ride! 

yep kia, i'll defenantly try to make a meet someday!  I love TX sept for  the heat, ticks & driving threw it, kinda like CA drive all day and never leave the state! i lived there for a few years as a kid & i got a few spots i'd like to revist....

Where in Texas are you? You may have heard about our Chapter, which is located in the greater San Antonio area.

The annual meet is at Inks Lake State Park this year. Check the Member Meets threat for more info.

You can also join us at the South-Texas NAFC Chapter Forum at: http://south-texasnafcchapter.lefora.com/forum/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://south-texasnafcchapter.lefora.com/forum/

We have a chat room, and a lot of info for Texas only, but not only for Texans.

Hope to see you, and anybody else who is interested, at the meet and/or chapter events.

Wout a pic it sounds like it may be an ariwana.  Sorry not sure on the spelling.  they are southamerican and are sold as tank fish...   Just one more possability.

I don't know if links from google image searches will work but here is what I found.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wetwebmedia.com/OsteoglossiformPIX/Osteoglossum_bicirrhossumAQ.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/osteoglossiforms.htm&h=142&w=200&sz=4&hl=en&start=12&tbnid=1azmncC9kj5gsM:&tbnh=74&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Darawana%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

If it don't work you can search yourself go to google image search.  I typed arawana and found tons of pics.

hope it helps

I live about 10 mminutes away from you, just off Jarratt Road and Bill Oliver Road. It's a small world. Now that I know that you live so close, you have no excuse to not come to the annual meets or chapter events. LOL Just kidding, but I sure hope to meet you some time soon and that you consider joining us at the meets and/or chapter events. Perhaps we can fish together some time, like at Calaveras or Braunig.

I Also hope that you join our forum. There is a lot more info on the annual meet and the chapter status then what anybody will find here.

Now it could very well be a musky. But ive been hearing some stuff about the northern snakehead. Apparently these fish are EXTREMLY aggresive. The have a mouth full of teeth and look similar to musky. Well people have been smuggling these fish into america. And heres the scarey part, they can take over and eat an entire lake in only ten years. They lay 1500 eggs and spawn 5 times a year. Thats not good. But these fish can walk on land! They have a seperate lung that allows them to breathe air. They can survive out of water for NINE HOURS!!! Thats pretty amazing. If caught lots of lakes will tell people to kill them. Heres a few pictures.

Very painfull bites

Very dangerous fish.