The gar weighed 20.5 pounds and taped out at 29.5 inches long. Photo courtesy David Confair David Confair and his fishing pal Grant Usilton were drift fishing for big longnose gar in Confair’s 23-foot ...

An angler and a professional guide may have broken two fishing records after they reeled in a massive alligator gar. Art Weston, a Kentucky resident, went to East Texas to catch the alligator gar with ...

Today we're out fishing for gar, specifically longnose gar. We're using small lures baited with a twister worm and casting them for gar. ▶ You can get your own Python Darters here: <a href=" ▶ Click ...

A pair of seasoned, world-record-chasing anglers just left another mark on the record books. On Tuesday traveling angler Art Weston and Texas fishing guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland caught a giant, ...

NEW YORK — State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced a new state record for longnose gar was set on June 21. Using a topwater swimbait, Chuck Zimmerman ...

Dawson Hefner learned how to catch alligator gar when he was a teenager, landing his first alligator gar when he was 16 years old by drifting a chunk of freshwater drum under a Coke bottle in Texas’s ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas anglers looking to bring home an alligator gar in 2025 may apply to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for a permit for the remainder of 2024. Officials said alligator ...

Chris Moody of Kerens is a Trinity River/Richland Chambers fishing guide and an alligator gar specialist who has steered his clients to some giants over the last 25 years. Moody says the Trinity s ...

When Texas freshwater fisheries managers two years ago voiced concern about the status and future of the alligator gar fishery and recommended ending unregulated taking of the state's largest ...

The 82-inch, 140-pound alligator gar I pulled from the Trinity River in April 2008 will likely remain my fish of a lifetime. Many other anglers can probably say the same-or would love to be able to.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Captain Keegan Lemcke and Captain Simón Valencia joined Matt DiNardo in the WRIC Now livestreaming studio for another episode of Off the Hook, where they discussed fly fishing ...