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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

"We both had a look of shock when the scale just kept going higher and higher. We both said, 'OMG this is a new all-tackle world record,'" fishing guide Kirk Kirkland said of client Art Weston's catch ...

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 ...