Nothing like checking bank lines at 2:00 am and pulling up a gar, but biggest I saw was maybe 3', this thing is really big. http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog...s+in+epic+battle+with+enormous+alligator+gar/
When I lived in Houston I was terrified of gar when we would take the boat out on the lake. My dads friends would swim under the boat from the other side and grab my legs and pull me under just to scare the shit out of me.
Maine might be a shit hole, but we don't have those up here. No poisonous snakes either......*cough* no ethnics *cough*
If I had a obsession I would have to say its with real life monsters like that, that thing is a beast. Awesome.