fight lasted another 90 minutes before the guide was able to get a lasso on the fish.
A clean sweep
Weston finds himself in pretty tall cotton following the epic trip to Choke Canyon. If all the pending records are approved, he will own every IGFA line class record there is for alligator gar using conventional tackle, plus the All-Tackle record. He may be the first angler in IGFA history to accomplish a clean sweep of all records for a particular species, according to Zack Bellapigna, IFGA's Angler Recognition Manager.
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