Deep Sea Fishing in SE Oklahoma (UPDATE: debunked)

I don't know who these people are or who the picture belongs to, but it was passed along to me by a reliable source who has been trustworthy in the past and also gave birth to me:

We'll call this one "Teri"

See, there are these fish in lakes and ponds and swamps and estuaries and cricks and hollers in Oklahoma and Texas called alligator gar. I've seen 'em up to about seven feet long. I've also seen one chase my dad while we were wading and fishing one day. Didn't see the fish so much as this big V suddenly surge through the water toward him, and as I recall the theme from Jaws started playing and my dad spontaneously re-enacted Matthew 14:25.

There's another picture below the jump which identifies this fish as 327 lbs., 8' 10" long, and coming from Broken Bow Lake, which is a beautiful bass fishing lake in the piney hills with a nice resort and a beach of white quartz pebbles. That is, unless you're a rich Californian or Texan, in which case it's ugly and you should stay away! and leave it alone! and not move there! and not build yoga centers and ridiculous Plano Gothic McMansions! and not inflate the property values out of reach of a poor blogger who would like to retire there someday!

Seriously, Tex, it's just a matter of time until these gar evolve legs and begin chasing your Lhasa Apso around the yard.

UPDATE: Hmm--was my tipster passing along some bad info about the piscine provenance? I may have to burn my source.

I gotta say, that doesn't look like a classic alligator gar shape--like this one these fellows lassoed out of a ditch in Louisiana's Angola State Prison and it's bigger than the official world record listed at this site. Check out that monster at the bottom there.

If it's not an alligator gar, what is it? Ichthyosaurus?

UPDATE 2: Heart-ache!