Quote Originally Posted by jcclark View Post
They'll eat everything else too.
No they won't. I've lived on and fished the Tombigbee River and its tributaries all my life. It has large numbers of fish of all species native to that area and some very exciting fishing. You can catch as many large bass, bream, crappie, catfish, eels, etc. as you can from a place that's never heard of the alligator gar. btw I caught a 9# largemouth bass out of the same hole of water where I had, thirty minutes before, caught a 12# alligator gar. The difference was that I was fishing red wigglers (live worms) when I caught the gar and was using a spinner bait when I caught the bass. In my area, the gar tends to like creeks that join the river. It may be, in part, because of the deep grass beds and dense cover the creeks provide.

As a matter of fact, I hope to be fishing in a bass tournament on the Tombigbee River within in a few months.

I think it's a good idea to re-introduce the gar to your area. jmo