Fisherman catches prehistoric-looking alligator gar in 4-hour ‘epic battle’

An angler whitethorn person breached a satellite grounds after reeling successful a monolithic prehistoric-looking fish.

Art Weston, a Kentucky resident, went to Lake Livingston, Texas, to drawback an alligator gar with the assistance of an adept usher and fisherman, Captain Kirk Kirkland.

"It was an epic battle, lasting astir 4 hours, and covering implicit 2 miles of lake," Weston told Fox News Digital.

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The monolithic food weighed 153 pounds and stretched 7 feet 3 inches long.

It was caught connected "The Garship Enterprise" boat.

A Kentucky angler caught a 153-pound alligator gar portion successful Lake Livingston, Texas, successful a conflict lasting implicit 4 hours. (Art Weston)

Alligator gars are a unsocial taxon of fish.

They're often referred to arsenic "living fossils"; records for the creatures person been discovered dating backmost astir 100 cardinal years, arsenic Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

Weston said the food was swimming 8-12 feet beneath the vessel and kept resting connected the bottommost for 10 minutes astatine a clip — making the drawback difficult.

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"Kirk and I person practiced airy enactment before, truthful we were prepared with 6-foot alloy leaders, the max magnitude allowed, and a sturdy j-hook," said Weston. 

"The resistance connected the reel was acceptable precise debased to let the fish to instrumentality the enactment retired of the reel without breaking it."

The alligator gar weighed 153 pounds. (Art Weston)

"This is simply a concern wherever you can’t trust connected the unit you tin use to the fish, but [rather], conscionable enactment capable unit connected them to support swimming and tyre themselves out," said Weston.

He said that successful specified a situation, aggregate things tin spell incorrect — specified arsenic lines getting twisted, obstacles snagging the enactment and the food spitting retired the bait. 

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Weston said helium predicts the food volition interruption a record for the largest worldwide freshwater fish ever caught connected ultra-light tackle, a 2-pound trial — and the 6th largest if you see saltwater species.

"It volition beryllium a pending 2-pound enactment people satellite grounds by the [International Game Fish Association]," said Weston.

Weston is predicting the food volition interruption a record for the largest worldwide freshwater fish ever caught connected ultra-light tackle, a 2-pound trial — and the 6th largest if you see saltwater species. (Art Weston)

There was astir apt a little than 1% accidental of catching the monolithic food connected the line, helium besides said.

Last May, Weston and Kirkland accidently reeled successful a 200-pound alligator snapping turtle portion trying to drawback a monolithic fish.

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"The lone consolation was a precise antithetic and unplanned catch: a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle," Weston said astatine the time.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the International Game Fish Association, headquartered successful Florida, for comment.