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 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 ...

Anglers interested in hooking an epic-sized trophy fish can apply for a 2025 alligator gar tag through Dec. 31. Many Arkansas anglers travel all the way to the Gulf of Mexico each year in search of ...

Myers believes it is the largest documented alligator gar catch ever made by a female angler in the state. "It's the third largest I've put a guest on," Myers told Chron. "I keep in contact with most ...

A father and son from Alabama caught a massive alligator gar on Thanksgiving, and the pair only recently learned that their holiday catch broke the state’s fishing record. Keith Dees and his son, ...

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, ...