Man records a state bow-fishing record on Lake Palestine

DOGWOOD CITY, Texas — An East Texas angler recently landed a record Spotted Gar on Lake Palestine. 

Caleb Pierce and his fiancé Brittany Chandler were out on Lake Palestine bow fishing while David Pierce, Caleb’s dad was directing the flat bottom boat as they trolled around the islands hunting Carp and Gar. 

“So we were doing what we normally do just trolling around these islands, and we were shooting Gar nothing out of the ordinary and they we just see this monster and just took a shot at it and ended up hitting it thankfully,” Caleb said. 

It was an unusually large Spotted Gar but Caleb admits he wasn’t thinking about it being a state or lake record, until Brittany remembered reading about the record Spotted Gar being roughly three feet long. 

“I remember seeing…