Also, don’t believe people when they say gar don’t attack people. I’ve seen it first hand.
Late 90s during a South Texas drought, we were walking along a dry riverbed and came up to a pool probably the size of a baseball diamond and 2-3 foot deep. As we walked around the pool with about two foot of land between the water and the steep riverbank, a wake starts going straight for my buddy that was walking in front. I was a little concerned at first thinking it was an alligator (we would regularly walk up on 8-10+ footers), but before I could really say anything, a 4 foot alligator gar darted out of the water at his feet slashing around slinging mud everywhere. He was younger than us (probably only 14 years old) and was screaming at the top of his lungs like a 7 year old girl during the entire 10–15 seconds of the gar going crazy right at his feet before it finally retreated back to the water. The rest of us were crying laughing, but he’s been traumatized about gar ever since.
I guess the gar was trapped in that evaporating pool hungry as shit and saw/heard/felt something at the edge of the water that he thought was a rabbit, possum, small deer and went after it??