@@gabrielulfohn8519 That was when they were described. This particular species has been around since the Miocene, with their family overall dating back to the Jurassic.
Ya, when you are talking sturgeon 200million years old. And as far as the we can tell the Greenland shark holds the title of the oldest with 400million years.
@John Lydon they didn't need to. There's no evolutionary pressure on them. They are prefectly suited to their environment, and doing as well as they possibly can. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Joshua Betts well that’s just another species. Just like in a tree. The main structure as in the trunk stays the same but the branches and twigs can vary strongly. As in armadilosuchos and the pug croc or sarcosuchus etc etc
@@andrewd.8281 Aligator Gar does not attack people. He is not able to cut out pieces that are small enough so he could swallow it. The opening down his throat is simply too small. Their head and fang is looking like an Aligator, some people have been killed by Aligators, people thought it was a gar, and early fake news had its punchline. This came so far, that prople have been so scared of Gar, they forced the Government to built ships with huge electric transformators on them to catch Gar by electric fishing. They had no plan to use the meat, so they just threw them on land. Huge piles of rotting Gar cadavar produced an horrible odor you have been able to smell all along the Missisippi. I am not completely sure, methinks this happened in the 1930's.
4:30 The Alligator gar is sometimes referred to as a “living fossil” because scientists can trace them in the fossil record back 100 million years! This majestic fish is the largest of the seven species of gar found in North America, Central America, and Cuba. I live on an area of the Mighty Mississippi River up north and there are seriously thousands of baby alligator gar that swim in schools in the back channels near the boat houses. I think they spawn in that area. They are completely harmless and have never attacked a person as long as I've lived here and people go swimming in the river all the time.
I live in Texas and I'm also an angler. Best bait for Alligator Gar, Carp, bluegill, and shad! Biggest one I've seen in person was over 8 foot and it dragged a 16 foot boat around the lake for about an hour. Unreal! My biggest Gar was 6'6 and I'm 5'7. It was a battle!
I'm from south Mississippi, the gar is a fact of life, we don't eat them they taste like garbage, the fastest way to catch them is by tieing a strip of a terrycloth towel to the end of your line and jigging it up and down in the water. Long jigs, you don't even need a hook. They also hit on live bait and cut bait or anything shiny.
@@HAMlLTON I said that about my first GF when i went down there. Two dolphins stuck together just squealing at me. Yes everything is measured in conjoined dolphins. I thought everyone knew that.
Editing for better information: Oldest known member of Lepisosteidae family(gar) is a fossil of Nhanulepisosteus mexicanus which is dated 157 million years old.
The first pic of that guy with the alligator Gar was Lake fork guy, he's a big fishing youtuber down in Texas. Can't believe that's one of the pics Jamie chose lol.
@@theRustynail9 oh idk... some of my favorite people used to be babies. Admittedly, in most cases they weren't my favorite people when they were babies. But they did all grow out of it eventually lol
Alligator gar at one point was a pest in most area's of the US.. it was fished all most to staggeringly low numbers. But now they are being put in the fish hatcheries around the US to combat the Asian carp epidemic in most streams and lakes in the US
I actually live in Crofton, MD which is the town in Maryland that HAD the lake/pond with the snakehead fish. If memory serves correctly, it’s Asian native fish that was released into the lake/pond by a man who no longer wanted it, I believe. Problem is they are extremely invasive and are also very resilient in general. They had to poison the lake which obviously resulted in ALL life in the lake to be wiped out including the snakehead fish. They were extremely worried about them breeding and multiplying so I guess they felt it necessary to nuke em while their numbers were somewhat contained. Rather sad really. Pretty sure the lake is doing just fine now and has been repopulated with native/local wildlife.
Snakeheads are from Asia they are a popular food fish in Asia the theory is someone put them in a pond so they could catch them and not have to import their pop has exploded started in the northeast and has made it all up and down the eastern half of the country I don't think they've made it past the Mississippi River yet but they can survive in any climate from Maine to Florida they can breathe air and can survive drought hard as hell to get rid of a lot of states have kill on site orders on them like hogs
They're allllll over Alabama. I've made great money chartering people on Lewis Smith Lake to catch and just to let people see them. I even have a couple as pets. They're fun to watch when they feed. Very aggressive fish.
I have been fishing Smith Lake for 25 years +, seen and caught alot of gar but never an alligator gar. Would love for you to post pics or vids of alligator gar you have caught out of Smith. I know they are in the lakes/rivers in Lower Bama.
Jase B if you ever fish at the dam, use goldfish around the rocks and you'll catch them all night... I usually tie off to the rock wall of the Damned and throw a couple of cans of corn out to attract the brim, then plot a fat old goldfish down there where you drop the corn and the gar will snatch them up. I've even taking people out and fish for them with nylon rope just for fun. Drop a couple of lines with goldfish on the hook, then drop the nylon rope in between and just move the Rope like you are fishing a worm and they'll attack it and get their teeth stuck in it. If you can never get them into a Feeding Frenzy that will buy that rope all night long
I have fished gold fish, I have fished using bream, I have fished using small blue cats to catch big flatheads. I have used frayed nylon rope to catch gar. But I have never seen an alligator gar in Smith. I have fished tournaments that blast off from the dam on Tuesday and Thursday nights for years. Have a place on the lake just below the park. I know how to fish Smith.I would love to see/catch an alligator gar !
@Sin Synn it can't eat you dude. And its not gonna attack you. Stay out of the water all you want, but you have to know its just whimsical thinking thats keeping you out
i used to bowfish for gars out in granbury texas, the brazos river is absolutely INFESTED youll have one in 15 minutes guaranteed. if you wanna catch a gar, thats your spot
Gars are in North Carolina . I got a 32lb in high rock lake. Took 45 mins to wear it out. I was 11 years old. Froze it to mount decided to toss it in the pool frozen to scare my little sister.
dang... really? im here in NC, surprised they are way out here. I came from texas, they are in evey pond/lake/body of water in texas. You can literally catch those with casting nets. Me and my brother used to catch them all the time accidentally. You can catch these by attaching liver onto hooks. Just about anything with blood. Also, what i did notice we would hardly ever catch them during the day, it was mostly at night. Guessing they come out to eat during the night, who knows, never done my research that is just based on personal experience.
You primarily bowfish for gar. They can breathe at the surface so when they're resting they stay inches from the surface and that's how you take it. You want 2 people (two arrows) for anything 100lb and up
I'll tell you a crazy gar story. I was fishing in the San Jacinto river in texas. I was using a rapala rattle trap. I hooked into something that felt huge. After a couple of seconds, I thought maybe it was just a snag, because it didn't seem to move, or give at all. But I kept yanking, and twitching from different angles to try and pop my favorite lure free, from what I had assumed must be a log. It finally let go, but felt like I had a small fish on, so I reeled it in. Turns out I caught a damn blue crab! 88 miles from the ocean, just north of The Woodlands, Texas. Then just as I got the crab loose from my lure with my pliers it dropped in the water, and my dog, (a giant half doberman-half great Dane) started growling very aggressively towards the water, and all the hair on her back stood up. She was usually a very calm dog, so it seemed weird that she would be reacting to just a crab splashing down into the water. I reached back down to grab my rattle trap, to see if the crab had fucked it up at all. I hear a large rush of water while my dog is simultaneously leaping from shore tonthe origin of the water surge. She disappears from the surface for half a second, then comes climbing up the bank of the river, dragging a 6 foot alligator gar by the neck. As soon as she had the gar's entire body out of the water, she tried to rag doll it. It didn't have the usual blood and gore effect of something like a cat, or a squirrel (our neighbors hated our dog, until she actually stopped a burglary next door one day. She would kill neighbors cats, and drop such big turds, that it would leave a big old dead spot in their lawn) but she effectively killed the damn thing. Right then and there. Was a fucking trip! I'll never forget that
Blue crabs migrate upriver to almost completely freshwater so they can breed because their shells will remain soft so they can breed then once they breed they returned to saltwater so their shells will harden again
@@redeyestones3738 I was in Westport Massachusetts fishing at the first up River Dam from the ocean, early spring, the bottom was alive with blue crabs I have never seen nothing like it in my life that's why I looked it up. It was incredible, there were thousands and thousands of them. Massachusetts doesn't allow commercial blue crabbing. Probably why there are so many. You only allowed to take them for personal use
Joe, you always amaze me. I've been watching your videos for a long time, and I have yet to hear you give incorrect information, and if you don't know, you always admit that you don't know. That is really refreshing in this day and age. Keep it up man!!
I live in Northeast Louisiana and have seen GIANT gar just washed up on the bank. I've seen them jump out of the water before too, and they'll be bigger than your boat
My grandfather was a commercial fisherman and even smaller gar would DESTROY nets. I went with him quite a few times to pull them up and I was always shocked at how powerful and aggressive they were.
When I was like 10 or 11, my parents took us to Lake Michigan, near Traverse City, for a vacation. We went to a beach that wasn't touristy- we were alone, my parents, brother sister and I. Well, it must have been a sturgeon I saw that came to the shallows to die or something, because I waded out (it was shallow for at least 50 feet) towards what I thought was a log until I noticed it had scales. I was terrified. I was a little kid looking at what had to be at least a 6 foot long fish. I couldn't see the head- just the light color on the outline of the scales. I wasn't tall enough to see the whole fish, out was so big. I was afraid for my life. I stopped about 15 feet from it when I realized it was a fish literally the size of a tree log, I quietly turned around and grabbed my sister and brother's hand, and we got the FUUUUCK out of the water. To this day, I will not swim in lakes.
Out here in Florida these Gars are annoying, they eat our bait when we're trying to catch good eating fish. People typically kill them and throw them on the bank for the gators or raccoons
Man I'm near black creek... I only realized we also have little sting Ray's here. I would swim in that water all the time and the people in fleming(upper-middle class) will look at me like I'm nuts.
Broken Bow-Beavers Bend, Oklahoma is beautiful. I try to go once a year with my son. I think were going in the next couple of weeks. Super excited about it.
I caught on that was just under 6' long in Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma back in the late '90's. It didn't fight as much as you would think. Looking back on it, I wish I hadn't killed it like I did, but it scared the hell out of me. I quit wading after that.
Lmao u can usually catch em with a large perch or decent size catfish depending on the size of the gar....they used to hang them at the end of my street on the crossbars to keep cars from goin in the water basically telling our young asses stay out the canal 😂🤣
I want an alligator gar but the tank I’d need to sustain it would be so hard to pay for and maintain. For now I settle for a pass to Sea Life in the Mall of America haha
As a Louisiana native and fisherman, alligator gar are some of THE MOST fun fish I have ever fought. Even a juvenile can be 3ft long and 20 pounds, all muscle. Happy fishing and good luck ladies and gents.
I remember the first time I ever saw one. My dad and I when I was maybe 8 went to this spill way at Fall River Kansas and the gar population had gotten way out of control and there were orders that if you caught one you either had to kill it or leave it on the shore to die and if you were caught throwing it back you would get fined. In Kansas Aligator Gar are rare but they pop up here and there. The first one I ever saw was dead on the bank of that spillway and it was just starting to decay. As an 8 year old it was longer than I was tall and easily weighed more than me, maybe even double my weight. I was terrified when I saw it but the entire scene was kinda creppy because there were dead gar and gar skeletons all over the place so that kind of added to it.
im good with giant fish since I grew up around some monster sturgeon when they were more common southern British Columbia and in the rivers just over the US border but the head on these things is nightmare fuel :O
I grew up fishing on a big lake in PA. I caught everything - smallmouth, largemouth, pickerel, walleye - except the five foot long muskies that were in the lake. They were allusive. But every year there were local stories of one being caught.
I've caught many alligator guar and they only attack in defense like when you catch them. but If you swim in wild lakes and or rivers you have probably been close to one just never noticed it because they don't see you as prey
Please get Jeremy Wade on your podcast! Host of river monsters, he's travelled the world and is knowledgable on a lot of animals
Denver Fernandes this
"So the 8th time i caught malaria..."
Yes, wade is amazing
Yes yes yes
YES!!!
Jamie retires from the show with a bachelor's in marine biology provided by Google.
What did he look up to find the 19th century😂
@@gabrielulfohn8519 That was when they were described. This particular species has been around since the Miocene, with their family overall dating back to the Jurassic.
@@perc7226 Eddie Bravo is that you?
You ever seen an alligator try DMT with aliens? Jamie pull that up
S Doopy lmaoo yo
Joe Rogan wishes he could be this Joe Rogan
a buddyamine did a paper on those
🤣🤣🤣
Subnautica reference?
Joe: That's a truly prehistoric fish
Me: *laughs in sturgeon*
Ya, when you are talking sturgeon 200million years old. And as far as the we can tell the Greenland shark holds the title of the oldest with 400million years.
Just gave you 69 likes, better be getting a thank you.
@@gershefski thats true of every shark dickhead - the group as a whole evolved ~400mya
@@gershefski jellyfish are 500-700 million years estimated
The gar is the prehistoric alligator fish I catch them often
Joe: "No offense to bucks."
Bucks: "Offense taken."
I’ve broke so many buck knifes. I’m a Moravniv fan now
@@mentalmetalist Me too. I went to Benchmade
Does Jamie realize how lucky he is to have perhaps the easiest job on the planet?
Idk. Seems annoying to him sometimes.
He also edits videos for clips and stuff like that
Bet, that boi types shit up and finds the right articles in 3 seconds
not every one could do, so it's not that easy...
easiest job is stay at home mom, any job you can do in your sweat pants and put ur boss on a timeout.
Gars have been on earth roughly unchanged for 100,000,000 years. Just like alligators.
@John Lydon they didn't need to. There's no evolutionary pressure on them. They are prefectly suited to their environment, and doing as well as they possibly can. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Well spoken.
Their in Florida aswell tho, shit scary
Alligators have evolved, just look up armadillosuchus. And yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.
Joshua Betts well that’s just another species. Just like in a tree. The main structure as in the trunk stays the same but the branches and twigs can vary strongly. As in armadilosuchos and the pug croc or sarcosuchus etc etc
reintroducing alligator gar in upper Mississippi to eat the invasive carp
and the children falling into the river
@@andrewd.8281 Everything has its ups and downs
@@andrewd.8281 Aligator Gar does not attack people. He is not able to cut out pieces that are small enough so he could swallow it. The opening down his throat is simply too small.
Their head and fang is looking like an Aligator, some people have been killed by Aligators, people thought it was a gar, and early fake news had its punchline. This came so far, that prople have been so scared of Gar, they forced the Government to built ships with huge electric transformators on them to catch Gar by electric fishing. They had no plan to use the meat, so they just threw them on land. Huge piles of rotting Gar cadavar produced an horrible odor you have been able to smell all along the Missisippi. I am not completely sure, methinks this happened in the 1930's.
@@kongandbasses8732 twas a joke but thanks for telling me. I had no clue
@@andrewd.8281 gator gar do not eat people. They don't bite you unless you bite them.
There's something about the way Alligator Gar look that makes me want to strip down to a loin cloth amd fight one with a spear.
4:30
The Alligator gar is sometimes referred to as a “living fossil” because scientists can trace them in the fossil record back 100 million years! This majestic fish is the largest of the seven species of gar found in North America, Central America, and Cuba.
I live on an area of the Mighty Mississippi River up north and there are seriously thousands of baby alligator gar that swim in schools in the back channels near the boat houses. I think they spawn in that area. They are completely harmless and have never attacked a person as long as I've lived here and people go swimming in the river all the time.
I love that little sniff Joe does when he correctly recalls information
He did it as i read this comment
that's so funny I never realized that. thanks man made me laugh
That sniff has to have a name. It's almost like a self conscious tick
Joe “pretends to know info on fish” Rogan
@@kushhunter6106 impressive
James Harden's Manboobs ..nice name
@@kushhunter6106 thanks
Joe "I have no idea what depth perception is" Rogan. Gar don't taste good either, this fuck bullshits like no other. Gar is mush and taste like mud.
Kabob L-Brewster fr though gar and mudcat are both nasty
I live in Texas and I'm also an angler. Best bait for Alligator Gar, Carp, bluegill, and shad! Biggest one I've seen in person was over 8 foot and it dragged a 16 foot boat around the lake for about an hour. Unreal! My biggest Gar was 6'6 and I'm 5'7. It was a battle!
Michael Ybarra 6’6 gar shittttt
Yessir. Also from Texas and can confirm. They a monstrous out here
I'm from south Mississippi, the gar is a fact of life, we don't eat them they taste like garbage, the fastest way to catch them is by tieing a strip of a terrycloth towel to the end of your line and jigging it up and down in the water.
Long jigs, you don't even need a hook.
They also hit on live bait and cut bait or anything shiny.
My step dad is 6,4 and he caught a gar on a spinner bait and the gar was 6 ft
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This is the Marketing Genius of Joe Rogan. He is talking about an Alligator skull whilst wearing a Cap of Skeleton.
"No offense to Buck"
-My man
Wait until he discovers the Goliath Tiger Fish...
His mind will be blown
Those things are scary as hell
Oh shit yeah or the sturgeon from russia i think jeremy wade caught
@@1rickopotamus We have lake sturgeon up here in Wisconsin that get up there in size but not like 28 feet like those fucking ones in Russia lol
@@1rickopotamus Guarantee he knows about sturgeon its a pretty famous fish, and theyre farmed for caviar.
5:55 Joe sounds like a kid answering questions about his badass new bike.
Joe "Dinosaurs Bro" Rogan
BigMac39 just as he said that I scrolled to this comment 😂
Joe "I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about" Rogan.
Joe "i dont know, i might be wrong" Rogan
He said this while I was reading this lol
i know this is late but those scales i heard were used as arrowheads because they were already in the right shape, just needed to be sharpened
"They taste delicious.. especially if you smoke em."
"It looks like two dolphins stuck together"
Wtf 😂😂
Victoria Fletcher you don’t measure animals in conjoined dolphin?
@@HAMlLTON I said that about my first GF when i went down there. Two dolphins stuck together just squealing at me.
Yes everything is measured in conjoined dolphins. I thought everyone knew that.
Editing for better information:
Oldest known member of Lepisosteidae family(gar) is a fossil of Nhanulepisosteus mexicanus which is dated 157 million years old.
Thank you!
The first pic of that guy with the alligator Gar was Lake fork guy, he's a big fishing youtuber down in Texas. Can't believe that's one of the pics Jamie chose lol.
Bert236 fishing freaks!
Justin’s wife is fine as wine...#OceanSpoonGirl
As an extremely avid fisherman I really appreciate Joe’s knowledge on fishing and fish in general
Fresh water monsters are absolutely terrifying. I just got nostalgia from river monsters
8:08 that face says take me fishing Jamie lol
"Yeah, I'm trying to catch a giant alligator gar. What should i use for bait?"
"Babies"
"Baby what?"
"People"
"............."
The only actual use for babues
@@theRustynail9 oh idk... some of my favorite people used to be babies.
Admittedly, in most cases they weren't my favorite people when they were babies. But they did all grow out of it eventually lol
I used my neighbors dog
Alligator gar at one point was a pest in most area's of the US.. it was fished all most to staggeringly low numbers. But now they are being put in the fish hatcheries around the US to combat the Asian carp epidemic in most streams and lakes in the US
I actually live in Crofton, MD which is the town in Maryland that HAD the lake/pond with the snakehead fish. If memory serves correctly, it’s Asian native fish that was released into the lake/pond by a man who no longer wanted it, I believe. Problem is they are extremely invasive and are also very resilient in general. They had to poison the lake which obviously resulted in ALL life in the lake to be wiped out including the snakehead fish. They were extremely worried about them breeding and multiplying so I guess they felt it necessary to nuke em while their numbers were somewhat contained. Rather sad really. Pretty sure the lake is doing just fine now and has been repopulated with native/local wildlife.
Snakeheads are from Asia they are a popular food fish in Asia the theory is someone put them in a pond so they could catch them and not have to import their pop has exploded started in the northeast and has made it all up and down the eastern half of the country I don't think they've made it past the Mississippi River yet but they can survive in any climate from Maine to Florida they can breathe air and can survive drought hard as hell to get rid of a lot of states have kill on site orders on them like hogs
"the head of an alligator the body of a fish" I think he was calling it a fake picture, which is funny, cause that is what they look like
Joe “ Specially when you smoke em “ Rogan
Lol I thought the same thing. Picturing him stuffing fish into a bowl / pipe haha
Jaime.. literally just search "how long have alligator gar been on earth" and itll say 100 million years right away.. not that hard LMAO
Also if you google "Marlin weight" you see a wikipedia page about a 1.800 lb Marlin... Not some tiny 1.300 lb one.
@@Kratatch LoL, Lee Wolf landed an almost 1200 pounder on a fly rod.
Lazy he need to hire someone better
@@adamreynoso1281 milky tacos
Bro i googled "how old is alligator gar" and it immediately showed up
They're allllll over Alabama. I've made great money chartering people on Lewis Smith Lake to catch and just to let people see them. I even have a couple as pets. They're fun to watch when they feed. Very aggressive fish.
fun to catch too !
I have been fishing Smith Lake for 25 years +, seen and caught alot of gar but never an alligator gar. Would love for you to post pics or vids of alligator gar you have caught out of Smith. I know they are in the lakes/rivers in Lower Bama.
Jase B if you ever fish at the dam, use goldfish around the rocks and you'll catch them all night... I usually tie off to the rock wall of the Damned and throw a couple of cans of corn out to attract the brim, then plot a fat old goldfish down there where you drop the corn and the gar will snatch them up. I've even taking people out and fish for them with nylon rope just for fun. Drop a couple of lines with goldfish on the hook, then drop the nylon rope in between and just move the Rope like you are fishing a worm and they'll attack it and get their teeth stuck in it. If you can never get them into a Feeding Frenzy that will buy that rope all night long
Jase B heck I've even caught them on Blackwater. I still go there from time to time to take kids out to enjoy nature
I have fished gold fish, I have fished using bream, I have fished using small blue cats to catch big flatheads. I have used frayed nylon rope to catch gar. But I have never seen an alligator gar in Smith. I have fished tournaments that blast off from the dam on Tuesday and Thursday nights for years. Have a place on the lake just below the park. I know how to fish Smith.I would love to see/catch an alligator gar !
"What bait do you use to catch those things?" "Something big" mfw when i use the ends of hotdogs lmao
Lol I caught one on a worm on a hook
Joe is like the weird kid in class, starting conversations like that, without a warning.
Shout out Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Thanks Joe
I've grown up around Gar my whole life. They literally swim around your legs while you fish and they rarely ever attack humans.
@Sin Synn they'll attack you less then a pet dog
@Sin Synn it can't eat you dude. And its not gonna attack you. Stay out of the water all you want, but you have to know its just whimsical thinking thats keeping you out
@Sin Synn a puddle is more dangerous. Stagnant water is a breeding ground for bacteria
@Sin Synn its not a shark. Sharks will see you as a food source, these gar do not. And yeag, the bronx is full of bacteria
@Sin Synn that's why you should know that you doing that, is just whimsical thinking
The alligator gar first appeared over 100 million years ago.
Not 98 million years? ??? Were u there stoopid?
i used to bowfish for gars out in granbury texas, the brazos river is absolutely INFESTED youll have one in 15 minutes guaranteed. if you wanna catch a gar, thats your spot
Alligator gar has remained unchanged for over 100 million years according to the fossil record
Gars are in North Carolina . I got a 32lb
in high rock lake. Took 45 mins to wear it out. I was 11 years old. Froze it to mount decided to toss it in the pool frozen to scare my little sister.
dang... really? im here in NC, surprised they are way out here. I came from texas, they are in evey pond/lake/body of water in texas. You can literally catch those with casting nets. Me and my brother used to catch them all the time accidentally.
You can catch these by attaching liver onto hooks. Just about anything with blood. Also, what i did notice we would hardly ever catch them during the day, it was mostly at night. Guessing they come out to eat during the night, who knows, never done my research that is just based on personal experience.
Merahki are they tasty?
Probably not alligator gar but spotted or longnose gar they do not get nowhere near as big
Gar. Not alligator gar. 2 different fish.
I dont know. We never ate them, was mostly catch and release. Joe rogan claims they are good though. Apparently people often smoke them.
Joe “I know fish” Rogan
Joe i know fuck all rogan
"What are you catching this with?"
Children
You primarily bowfish for gar. They can breathe at the surface so when they're resting they stay inches from the surface and that's how you take it. You want 2 people (two arrows) for anything 100lb and up
"Jamie, see if you can get a video of a tag team match between an alligator gar, a python, an ape, and a grizzly bear on DMT in the Everglades."
fossils go back as far as the early cretaceous so over 100/150 million years ago
TheSheppdog Jamie's so dumb idk how to date fossils
bro you actually need to get Jeremy wade on the pod cast
Listening to this audio without watching the video and all I can imagine is a country tom segura.
I'll tell you a crazy gar story. I was fishing in the San Jacinto river in texas. I was using a rapala rattle trap. I hooked into something that felt huge. After a couple of seconds, I thought maybe it was just a snag, because it didn't seem to move, or give at all. But I kept yanking, and twitching from different angles to try and pop my favorite lure free, from what I had assumed must be a log. It finally let go, but felt like I had a small fish on, so I reeled it in. Turns out I caught a damn blue crab! 88 miles from the ocean, just north of The Woodlands, Texas. Then just as I got the crab loose from my lure with my pliers it dropped in the water, and my dog, (a giant half doberman-half great Dane) started growling very aggressively towards the water, and all the hair on her back stood up. She was usually a very calm dog, so it seemed weird that she would be reacting to just a crab splashing down into the water. I reached back down to grab my rattle trap, to see if the crab had fucked it up at all. I hear a large rush of water while my dog is simultaneously leaping from shore tonthe origin of the water surge.
She disappears from the surface for half a second, then comes climbing up the bank of the river, dragging a 6 foot alligator gar by the neck. As soon as she had the gar's entire body out of the water, she tried to rag doll it. It didn't have the usual blood and gore effect of something like a cat, or a squirrel (our neighbors hated our dog, until she actually stopped a burglary next door one day. She would kill neighbors cats, and drop such big turds, that it would leave a big old dead spot in their lawn) but she effectively killed the damn thing. Right then and there. Was a fucking trip! I'll never forget that
This story was an emotional rollercoaster and I loved every second of it
Blue crabs migrate upriver to almost completely freshwater so they can breed because their shells will remain soft so they can breed then once they breed they returned to saltwater so their shells will harden again
@@zenolachance1181 I heard that before. But 88 miles upriver? That's pretty far from the salt.
@@redeyestones3738 I was in Westport Massachusetts fishing at the first up River Dam from the ocean, early spring, the bottom was alive with blue crabs I have never seen nothing like it in my life that's why I looked it up. It was incredible, there were thousands and thousands of them. Massachusetts doesn't allow commercial blue crabbing. Probably why there are so many. You only allowed to take them for personal use
Your dog killed your neighbors cats and you didn't get in trouble or they didn't poison your dog? Hard to believe that
Joe, you always amaze me. I've been watching your videos for a long time, and I have yet to hear you give incorrect information, and if you don't know, you always admit that you don't know. That is really refreshing in this day and age. Keep it up man!!
Meat eater is an ultra gay name for a podcast
Daniel Gough 😂😂
🎶 *SNAKE EATER* 🎶
Only if you're gay.
Rob Boss Metal Gear....
LMAO true
Caught a 220 lb shark took over an hour one of my best life expectancies so far
LAKE FORK GUY!
I could see an indigenous tribe believing one of those was a sea dragon or some type of deity. (Arapaima fish)
I live in Northeast Louisiana and have seen GIANT gar just washed up on the bank. I've seen them jump out of the water before too, and they'll be bigger than your boat
Yeah, there's photos of them from the 1800's-early 1900's in the 15 to 18 foot range and estimated weights at 800 to 1000 pounds.
I believe the Arapimas have developed lungs to breath air. The River Monsters guy Jeremy Wade is always catching them.
My grandfather was a commercial fisherman and even smaller gar would DESTROY nets. I went with him quite a few times to pull them up and I was always shocked at how powerful and aggressive they were.
Powerful LakeForkGuy holding that gar in the first pic.
re: Alligator gar...those crazy-assed Cajuns catch em all day.
I love all these new Joe Rogan advertisements. I actually never skip them
Alligator gar - hundred million years ago - early cretaceous
Jamie had his work cut out for him in this episode😂
Here in Texas we use cut Carp on a 10 ot triple hook ON 50 pound braided line
When I was like 10 or 11, my parents took us to Lake Michigan, near Traverse City, for a vacation. We went to a beach that wasn't touristy- we were alone, my parents, brother sister and I. Well, it must have been a sturgeon I saw that came to the shallows to die or something, because I waded out (it was shallow for at least 50 feet) towards what I thought was a log until I noticed it had scales. I was terrified. I was a little kid looking at what had to be at least a 6 foot long fish. I couldn't see the head- just the light color on the outline of the scales. I wasn't tall enough to see the whole fish, out was so big. I was afraid for my life. I stopped about 15 feet from it when I realized it was a fish literally the size of a tree log, I quietly turned around and grabbed my sister and brother's hand, and we got the FUUUUCK out of the water. To this day, I will not swim in lakes.
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I used to have one in a 10 gallon because you know fish only get as big as their tank allows...
I caught a 47lb alligator gar here in Florida when i was 10. They get huge and they will still attack hours after theyre decapitated. True story.
Modt fish can still attack after being decapitated.
Joe “wears a cap to look like he knows about fish” rogan.
Joe "look that up for me" Rogan
Out here in Florida these Gars are annoying, they eat our bait when we're trying to catch good eating fish. People typically kill them and throw them on the bank for the gators or raccoons
Man I'm near black creek... I only realized we also have little sting Ray's here.
I would swim in that water all the time and the people in fleming(upper-middle class) will look at me like I'm nuts.
When I saw a giant Gharial at a zoo when I was younger, it was so massive that I could swear I was looking at a dinosaur.
Aye my guy LFG made it on joe rogan podcast
juansolis758 Fuck Yeah boyyyyy
juansolis758 lol I was wondering if that was him lol fishin freaks
Ya lol just noticed that now didn't catch it when it was live. Pretty cool to see although I doubt many people noticed his UA-cam name on the pic
Fishin freaks everywhere!!!
ayyy fishing freaks unite
I live in New Orleans . And catch alligator gar alot. Eat them as gar balls
Are they delicious? What would you compare them to?
That's right South shore of Lake Pontchartrain has some giants. Have a rodeo in Madisonville every year
I lived in mandeville for a while. Went out on the tchfuncte and catch em. Sometimes I even caught them on the lake front.
The way there cooked down here reminds me of allligator meat mixed with some fish.
J Quiznos they are very good eating! I have not had it smoked but I’m going to try it.
Came here seeing if my brother would be in this he recently caught a 200 lb. Alligator gar in texas and made it in the news
Broken Bow-Beavers Bend, Oklahoma is beautiful. I try to go once a year with my son. I think were going in the next couple of weeks. Super excited about it.
I caught on that was just under 6' long in Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma back in the late '90's. It didn't fight as much as you would think. Looking back on it, I wish I hadn't killed it like I did, but it scared the hell out of me. I quit wading after that.
Alligator gars have been around for over 100 million years.
YouR Triggered...you're
Lmao u can usually catch em with a large perch or decent size catfish depending on the size of the gar....they used to hang them at the end of my street on the crossbars to keep cars from goin in the water basically telling our young asses stay out the canal 😂🤣
I had 3 Gar’s in my home tank. Amazing fish to have, got interested watching my uncles 5 Gar. Really worth having as a pet
I wish I can. But in two decades, you need a pond.
I want an alligator gar but the tank I’d need to sustain it would be so hard to pay for and maintain. For now I settle for a pass to Sea Life in the Mall of America haha
As a Louisiana native and fisherman, alligator gar are some of THE MOST fun fish I have ever fought. Even a juvenile can be 3ft long and 20 pounds, all muscle. Happy fishing and good luck ladies and gents.
JRE podcast google searches is literally me on the toilet googling random shit.
btw alligators haven't evolved for 150 million years, awesome killers...
But how sure are you did you look into it? Lol
Wow you got an A in alligators
deep_thought What about snakes nigga
Evolution isn’t real.... look into it
Everything is always evolving, it just hasn't evolved as dramatically.
I remember the first time I ever saw one. My dad and I when I was maybe 8 went to this spill way at Fall River Kansas and the gar population had gotten way out of control and there were orders that if you caught one you either had to kill it or leave it on the shore to die and if you were caught throwing it back you would get fined. In Kansas Aligator Gar are rare but they pop up here and there. The first one I ever saw was dead on the bank of that spillway and it was just starting to decay. As an 8 year old it was longer than I was tall and easily weighed more than me, maybe even double my weight. I was terrified when I saw it but the entire scene was kinda creppy because there were dead gar and gar skeletons all over the place so that kind of added to it.
It’s the same way at Grenada ms spillway. Lots of skeletons of them
we always went fishing with a 22 shoot them and leave them on the shore
Joe Rogan would smoke smoke
"I'm gonna smoke this smoke then smoke to edibles with the smoke then vape the edibles
100 million years the alligator gar has remained mostly the same
Joe went from smoking weed to smoking alligator gar.
I’ve seen one as big as a canoe once when we were floating the Illinois River
Right. Illinois Kentucky and Indiana
im good with giant fish since I grew up around some monster sturgeon when they were more common southern British Columbia and in the rivers just over the US border
but the head on these things is nightmare fuel :O
It’s so weird hearing someone act like this is abnormal everytime
I fish in Arkansas I see one
Boggy Creek, dude!
Literallly 100 million years ago a fish evolved into that and they were just like, “Yeah were done here.”
You can see a lot of them in the Missouri River as well the small ones will be right by the shores
Joe wants to smoke that alligator
I grew up fishing on a big lake in PA. I caught everything - smallmouth, largemouth, pickerel, walleye - except the five foot long muskies that were in the lake. They were allusive. But every year there were local stories of one being caught.
Alligator gar get big enough to take down a horse. There are stories from the early days of the united states of those things being feared..
No they don't lol. They don't do that.
I wish Joe Rogan would start an animal planet style show. I love listening to him freak out about animals.
I've caught many alligator guar and they only attack in defense like when you catch them. but If you swim in wild lakes and or rivers you have probably been close to one just never noticed it because they don't see you as prey
Adam Sandler looks terrible!
What giant reptile's went extinct in the past?
See 4:27 for answer
Jeremy Wade!!!
yessss needs 2 happen
I've caught them before with my buddy, you actually use huge hooks with chunks of meat, you can catch them in zero visibility water, its crazy...
It's the funniest when Joe talks about animals lmao