Art Weston and his guide released the gar after weighing it. It’s not easy to land a giant fish on ultralight tackle, especially when that fish is a toothy dinosaur like an alligator gar. But a ...

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources certified a massive alligator gar as a new state record last week. The huge gar was caught on Thanksgiving Day by Alabama angler Keith Dees ...

Art Weston and his guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland were out chasing world records again in early April. This time, the accomplished anglers were fishing for a new world-record alligator gar at the upper end ...

At only 18 years old, pals Charlie Oliver and Evan Adams already have years of fishing experience under their belt, but they'd never brought in haul quite like the one they got as a late Christmas ...

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 Jason and Jennifer Schall pack their fishing gear and head to the water, there's a good chance they'll be making a record catch. That certainly turned out to be the case when they left their ...

Texas alligator gar season is in spring and summer, and the longest-living freshwater fish in the state will be attracted to the warmer waters. While anglers may be anxious to catch and release ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early into a hot summer Houston morning, Paul Myers helped catch a giant. On the banks of an undisclosed bayou, Myers directed his 5-foot 10-inch friend to lie next to what they caught: a giant, dirty ...

A giant, prehistoric-looking alligator gar has been caught by a fisherman using a bow and arrow at Falcon Lake, Texas. On Wednesday, the fisherman's brother, Gerardo Benitez, uploaded pictures and a ...

In the Mekong River in Cambodia, fishers and researchers found a 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray — a win for conservation efforts in the area. By Jason Bittel For 17 years, Zeb Hogan, a biologist, ...