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 ...

Reporting from chicago — It’s a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to ...

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 ...

The gar weighed 20.5 pounds and taped out at 29.5 inches long. Photo courtesy David Confair David Confair and his fishing pal Grant Usilton were drift fishing for big longnose gar in Confair’s 23-foot ...

The term “river monster” seems made for the alligator gar. This prehistoric-looking creature named for its resemblance to the American alligator could have been dreamed up by a Hollywood ...

When the Trinity River, swollen from heavy spring rains, oozed over its banks along its lower reaches and spread over the adjacent landscape, as it almost annually did back when I was a teenager, we'd ...

Threet told Chron he isn't totally sure just how much the menacing looking fish measured, but estimated it was around 4 feet and 4 inches long. Photos shared by Threet show him holding up the gar with ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The elusive alligator gar finally took the bait. The fish in Iroquois Lake in Schenectady’s Central Park that people have called “the Schenectady Lake Monster”, has caught ...

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 ...

Nice digital rendering of a terrifying alligator gar jaw. Scientists had assumed the alligator gar catches its prey simply by slamming its powerful, tooth-y jaws shut. But according to a new study ...