. Soaking cut bait has a bit of a stigma of being dumbed-down fishing, but there’s actually a lot of science and technique that goes into the proper hacking, rigging, and fishing of a bloody, dripping ...

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 ...

A gargantuan alligator gar caught in Texas may shatter the previous world record for its classification, a Texas fishing guide says. The 251-pound beast was caught Sunday, April 16, by Kentucky angler ...

They are ugly, intimidating and can be dangerous. For years, the alligator gar was intentionally killed by fishermen who felt they were undesirable. But these days, there is a renewed respect for the ...

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 ...

EAST TEXAS (KYTX/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Two anglers caught a monstrous Alligator Gar. The numbers were big and have shattered world records. "This fish was 100 inches long, by 48-inch girth was 283 ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas — "Sharing what was my most challenging catch of my life," Art Weston wrote on Facebook after landing a massive alligator gar in Lake Livingston. The 7-foot-3-inch behemoth weighed ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to ...

Why it's awesome: With their long snout, thick armored scales, and two rows of piercing teeth, these huge fish could easily be mistaken for a ferocious gator — hence their common name: alligator gar.