>Two of my friends decided to go cat fishing one night below
>the Meldahl dam on the Ohio River. The names have been changed
>to protect the innocent! One of my friends has a 15ft 70’s
>style bass boat about 5ft wide. The trip started innocent
>enough with the two of them launching without incident,
>motoring up to the dams tailrace and actually catching a few
>decent cats. Suddenly G feels a heavy surge on his fish pole:
>
>“I have a big fish on” he says to S.
>
>The fight is on. G was well armed with 50lb test on a short
>stout boat rod, he fought the fish for nearly 10 minutes
>before the fish came close enough for either to see. The one
>thing they forgot was a hand held flashlight, but they both
>had those little hats with flashlights on them like miners
>hats but with very low lighting. Now G is standing up in the
>boat, pumping and reeling the fish up near the middle of the
>boat, S has the net and is peering into the dark waters to get
>a look at this fish. All of a sudden the fish comes bursting
>out of the water right at S who lets out a terrified shriek:
>
>“S-S-S-N-NAKE!!!” and falls backwards on his butt. G says
>
>“That’s no snake it’s a giant Gar, net him“.
>
>Now the net they have is about 3ft around and S says:
>
>“ I don’t think it will fit in the net.”
>
>G tells S to try to get the net under the tail when he pulls
>the head out of the water and lift it into the boat.
>
>“OK, Ill try.” says a slightly hesitant S.
>
>G starts to pump and reel this fish up to the boat. The fish
>surges again right next to the boat, but this time G swings
>the fish halfway into the boat and S unfortunately succeeds in
>getting the net under the fish, to this day I do not know how.
>Flop, into the boat comes a 6+ ft long gar and it's madder
>than a wet Rooster at being there. S is screaming for his life
>trying to get away from the gar as it thrashes this way and
>that and appears to be chasing him toward the front of the
>boat. Meanwhile rods, tackle boxes, coolers, etc. are being
>knocked about the boat, some stay inside the boat some go out
>of the boat. G has found refuge from the havoc in the bottom
>of the boat by standing on top of one of the seats leaving S
>alone to battle the big fish inside the boat.
>
>“Get that @%*&#^?! fish out of the boat!!!!” Shouts G.
>
>Meanwhile, on the bottom of the boat, S is screaming while
>crawling on his hands and knees in a desperate attempt to
>escape the giant Gar that is apparently trying to chase him
>down in the boat. However, S is quickly running out of room on
>the floor of the boat to escape this thrashing 6ft long
>prehistoric creature from the dark regions of the Ohio River.
>Suddenly the fish is on S:
>
>“HE'S BITING ME, HE'S BITING ME!!!!” screams S.
>
>G now finds the courage to climb down from the seat and grabs
>up the net and flips the thrashing fish out of the boat
>rescuing S from a certain fate worse than death. As they both
>sigh a breath of relief, one of the rods, the one the gar was
>on and is still hooked to suddenly surges from the back of the
>boat nearly hitting G as it streaks toward the briny deep.
>Neither fisherman attempted to grab the rod and sacrificed it
>for the good of the crew.
>
>Well, the two of them came straight to my house to tell me
>this fantastic story, which at first I did not believe:
>
>“Gars don’t bite people.” I said.
>
>Then they showed me the boat and the wreckage inside of it,
>still not believing S pulls up his shirt and sure enough, the
>shirt is shredded in two places and there are two very
>distinct beak like bite marks of mammoth proportions on S’s
>back and to this day S will cut his line if a gar gets it and
>becomes shaken at the site of gar even in a 20ft bass boat.
>
>The one that SHOULD have gotten away!
>

I was almost in the floor rolling while reading this, thanks alot for sharing this one, LOL,LOL. :D