The 195.6-pound gar was the biggest ever weighed at the rodeo; the team that took first place also caught the second-biggest fish of the event. After 49 years, the Madisonville Gar Rodeo in South ...

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, ...

Alligator gar have all the major characteristics of a trophy gamefish. They’ll eat a variety of baits and lures, they pull like hell, and, most importantly, they’re giants. The species now has its own ...

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 ...

I am all about conservation and doing the right thing to protect our natural resources. But is Texas' alligator gar fishery in such distress that it might be necessary to limit their take with annual ...

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 ...

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 ...