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 ...

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 ...

David Confair and his fishing pal Grant Usilton were drift fishing for big longnose gar in Confair’s 23-foot boat on February 8. They were working a drop-off along Marshyhope Creek, a tributary of the ...

An angler and a professional guide may have broken two fishing records after they reeled in a massive alligator gar. Art Weston, a Kentucky resident, went to East Texas to catch the alligator gar with ...

An alligator gar in Texas has earned one fisherman an award from state authorities. John Harrington earned an "Outstanding Angler Award" from the Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) division for his ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In this week’s episode, StormTracker8 Chief Meteorologist Matt DiNardo sits down with Reid Parker of Current Culture Fly to discuss fly fishing for gar, bowfin and snakeheads.

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Fishermen often utter obscenities and throw their catch back in the water after hooking the long, skinny, ugly fish known as a garfish. What they probably don't know is that, ...