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, ...

A Kentucky angler has found himself back in Texas to reel in some massive monsters. Art Weston, state and world record fisherman, returned to Sam Rayburn Lake in the hope of setting another ...

I have fly fished for various warm-water fish. I have cast flies for bass, catfish, panfish, and carp. The one species I had not cast my fly toward, until now, was a gar. I had heard about it. But ...

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 ...

A man from Texas has been recognized for catching the heaviest alligator gar on record from Lake Corpus Christi. Paul Hefner, a Texas angler, used a jug line to capture a 207-pound alligator gar in ...

It was just after dark on Aug. 31 when Paul Myers, a well-known fishing guide on the Texas coast, settled into a spot on a privately owned shoreline with his client Emilie Song. He rigged three ...

Every week we publish a historic photo highlighting a story from Naperville’s past from the archives of Naper Settlement. The Grand Army of the Republic, known as the GAR, was an early political ...

Jul. 23—Over the years, gar have gotten a bad wrap for being a main consumer of game and sport fish, but that may be because the prehistoric fish is adaptable in less-than-ideal settings. Jason ...

It’s nearly time for that magical season of the year when anglers can harvest giant alligator gar on a section of the Trinity River. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department opens its annual alligator ...

A 251-pound alligator gar caught in the Trinity River in Texas is up for consideration for a world record. Instagram screengrab from Capt. Kirk Kirkland A gargantuan alligator gar caught in Texas may ...