The Alabama Alligator (The Stokes Alligator) – 15 feet and 9 inches (4.8 meters). It is not uncommon for an average Alligator gar to reach a length off 7-8 feet (2.1-2.4 metres) and a weight around 100-120 pounds (45-54 kilograms). Updated: October 7, 2019. The alligator gar is among the largest species of freshwater fish found in North America.

The second biggest alligator gar to date was a 279-pound specimen caught in Texas back in 1951. This makes it one of the biggest species of freshwater fish in North America. The all-tackle fishing world record for alligator gar was a 279-pound fish caught in Texas back in 1951. Plus the story of a state record gar from Oklahoma. On the men’s side of the IGFA record book, Richard Hart has the fly fishing world record with an 83-pound, 3-ounce alligator gar pulled from the Trinity River in May 2016. The gator measured over 13-feet-8.5-inches in length and weighed in at over 900 pounds. This alligator gar set a world record — stretching to more than eight feet in length and weighing 327 pounds. Big Tex, the largest alligator in Texas state history, is being relocated to Gator Country. The Alligator gar is the biggest species of gar, so the world record Alligator gar is also the world record gar.

The Alabama Alligator (The Stokes Alligator) – 15 feet and 9 inches (4.8 meters). The world's largest alligator is the American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis), and they usually average out at lengths of 12 - 14.5 FT. The alligator which is claimed to be the largest to have been ever recorded was found on Marsh Island, Louisiana, in 1890.

It was killed near Vermilion Bay in southern Louisiana. It measured 19.2 ft. (5.85 m) in length, and weighed somewhere around 2000 lbs – allegedly.

In total, this alligator gar weighed 327 pounds and measured 8-feet 5 1/8 inches long with a 47-inch girth. By Chad Love. The largest alligator ever recorded. World Record Alligator Gar Pulled From Mississippi Lake Tangled in Fisherman's Net. Five members of the Stokes family captured and killed a giant alligator at the Alabama R iver on August 16, 2014, which measured 15 feet and 9 inches (4.8 meters) long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds ( about 458.8 kg). On the women’s side of the record book, Meredith McCord has the world benchmark with a 28-pound, 9-ounce alligator gar caught in February 2019.

The biggest alligator gar ever recorded was tangled in a net and hauled in by a Mississippi commercial fisherman. More Fishing. This is the largest alligator ever captured in the state of Texas by more than 5 inches, a new state record, and the gator is now aptly being named ‘Big Tex’. The fish was estimated to be somewhere between 50 and 70 years old.