From the "That Sucker's Huge!" department

I received some impressive pictures by email today, so I went searching to see if it's another internet hoax (as many of these things are), and this one appears to be for real. From the Centre Daily Times:

Using archery tackle that would suit Luke Skywalker, two Missouri archers won a tag-team version of gar wars at Sam Rayburn Lake, bagging a gigantic alligator gar that weighed 244 1/2 pounds. It is the pending Bowfishing Association of America world record. The giant fish is not, however, the largest of its species taken with bow and arrow in Texas.

Here are the pix (click for larger versions):



That beats the heck out of the 5-footer my dad and I caught on a trotline in the San Miguel Creek once. Yikes.