Alligator gar and their direct ancestors have been around for at least 100 million years. They look their age. That long, cylindrical, olive-white body is covered with an armor of thick, ...

Renowned angler Art Weston has done it again — recently landing a massive alligator gar measuring 7 feet 3 inches and weighing 153 pounds on Lake Livingston in East Texas. Calling it the “most ...

Anglers interested in hooking into an epic-sized trophy fish can apply for a 2026 alligator gar trophy tag from now until the end of 2025. Many Arkansas anglers travel all the way to the Gulf of ...

Angler Art Weston continues his mission of catching record-breaking alligator gar. With the help of Texas Captain Kirk Kirkland, Weston has obtained every line class world record for alligator gar, ...

I always have to catch myself when I spot a gar while fishing in Florida. Working a topwater plug near a shoreline, I'll often notice a gar breaking the surface with its long snout and sharp teeth.

D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WLOX) - Over the weekend, anglers from across the Coast battled it out on the water in the annual Alligator Gar Rodeo in D’Iberville. Held under the I-110 bridge, the tournament ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to science as Atractosteus spatula, it is the largest of the gar species alive ...