ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – It’s time for the newest submission for 18 Sports’ Big Fish Summer. Congratulations to Dominic Stirpe, who caught this huge Gar, while fishing on Lake Ontario. The young angler’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Alligator gar have all the major characteristics of a trophy gamefish. They’ll eat a variety of baits and lures, they pull like hell, and, most importantly, they’re giants. The species now has its own ...

I am all about conservation and doing the right thing to protect our natural resources. But is Texas' alligator gar fishery in such distress that it might be necessary to limit their take with annual ...

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 ...

When Texas freshwater fisheries managers two years ago voiced concern about the status and future of the alligator gar fishery and recommended ending unregulated taking of the state's largest ...