Know1 is right, alligator and longnose gar are two different things. Longnose gar are what we have here, not alligator gar. The longnose are pests, we catch some big ones in the Ohio and Kentucky rivers, I almost always throw them up on the bank and take them home, either to eat or to ferilize the flowers. Yes, you can eat them, actually they are pretty good. Just need a good set of wire shears.

I don't understand this either, I personally have a problem with killing fish older than I am, especially if I'm not going to eat it. I was looking through a catalog the other day and saw a DVD that was about bow fishing. Two guys with about 10 alligator gar stacked up in front of them. Every one of those fish were probably older than the guys that shot them and take forever to replace into the fishery.