Jul. 23—Over the years, gar have gotten a bad wrap for being a main consumer of game and sport fish, but that may be because the prehistoric fish is adaptable in less-than-ideal settings. Jason ...

A new record was set in April for the largest alligator gar caught at Lake Corpus Christi, weighing in at 207 pounds. The long snout is a familiar face in Texas as the state is one of the native homes ...

I remember my first encounter with an alligator gar. I was 10 years old fishing with my dad on Lake Buchanan. We had just set up camp and couldn’t wait to get our lines baited and in the water. About ...

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 ...

A prehistoric jet black river creature with shark-like teeth has been caught in the Choctawhatchee River in Florida. The melanistic longnose gar was found by the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute ...

We hear about invasive species a lot. Snakehead fish, Japanese knotweed, stink bugs, zebra mussels, emerald ash borers, lanternflies, wooly adelgid, Prince Harry. A lot of these come from Asia, with ...

An alligator gar, a large fish that is often referred to as a "living fossil," was recently caught in Kansas—the first time the species has been recorded in the state, wildlife officials said. Angler ...

Kyle Hammond of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been seriously chasing big gar records in his home state for three years now. He broke the Indiana shortnose gar record (which he still holds) in 2021. And on ...

The "monster" alligator gar that was caught in Texas last month has broken not one, not two but four International Game and Fish Association (IGFA) records. Captain Kirk Kirkland served as the guide ...

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 ...

Odell Allen cast his line in hopes of reeling in an alligator gar on the Trinity River near the Great Trinity Forest Way bridge in Dallas, Wednesday, September 1, 2021. Allen's viral videos of him ...