Nice fish Daniel, I tried it one, that I caught out of my ditch when we had a lot of rain, them thing are nasty, but the ones I had (tasted) where small, no more than 15 20 inches.
I was fishing with a friend in his lakes on the 100 acres behind his house, it could have been, even bigger than that one, he recently got a john boat and a hummin' bird, so some time we are gonna go gar hunting! And just curios what what did you did you catch it on, snag it on, or what ever?