But in 2011, TPWD received the otolith from an 8-and-a-half-foot gar caught in Mississippi and biologists estimated its age around 95. “One other thing we’ve learned that is hypercritical is that ...

Their ultimate goal is to get a 200-plus-pound alligator gar in every record category. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get a 200 [on 2-pound], right? I mean 153, that’s a big fish,” he says.

The Plan to Catch a World Record Fish Weston's guide, Captain Kirk Kirkland, is the reigning authority on catching big gar. / Kirk Kirkland “Captain Kirk and I have practiced landing these fish ...

Tiny but fierce these small gar fish are getting scooped up and moved to the pool pond for some early training! Watch their first swims, their reactions to the new environment, and the beginning of ...

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The alligator gar is reportedly a sizable fish that is between 6 and 10 feet long and weighs between 100 and 350 pounds. However, it is still unclear how big and how heavy the gar, which was ...

It’s time for the next edition of 18 Sports’ Big Fish Summer. Presented by Valley Wholesale Bait and Tackle, congratulations to Ernie Barber for catching this four foot gar in Florida at the ...

“Texas has a lot of big alligator gar and those two guys know how to catch them.” Tiny line = monster fish There is a really good story behind Weston’s fish, one that is built ...

The gar leaps halfway out of water as if dancing ... As the sun rises higher, though, so does the water temperature, and that brings the big fish to the surface to breathe. Gars can inhale gulps ...

283-pound alligator gar fish that is likely to set records. A Kentucky fisherman reeled in a big one — a really big one. While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month ...

Their ultimate goal is to get a 200-plus-pound alligator gar in every record category. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get a 200 [on 2-pound], right? I mean 153, that’s a big fish,” he says. “And Kirkland ...