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 ...

A man from Texas has been recognized for catching the heaviest alligator gar on record from Lake Corpus Christi. Paul Hefner, a Texas angler, used a jug line to capture a 207-pound alligator gar in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Texas angler received a major surprise last week when he hooked a rare black alligator gar while casting a fly designed to catch redfish. “It was very surprising once the fish surfaced to see that ...

Every year, Texas Parks and Wildlife hosts a drawing for a chance to catch and keep giant alligator gars out of the Trinity River. The TPWD Inland Fisheries staff explained the harvest authorization ...

A Texas teenager hauled in an impressive alligator gar earlier this month, and it wasn’t his first imposing catch. Jack Pytel, an 18-year-old from Needville, told McClatchy News he was at a friend’s ...