Anglers interested in hooking into an epic-sized trophy fish can apply for a 2026 alligator gar trophy tag from now until the end of 2025. Many Arkansas anglers travel all the way to the Gulf of ...

Alligator gar and their direct ancestors have been around for at least 100 million years. They look their age. That long, cylindrical, olive-white body is covered with an armor of thick, ...

A group of 12-year-old friends in Livonia made the catch of a lifetime when they reeled in what appears to be a rare alligator gar fish, a species not native to Michigan waters. LeBron James nearly ...

NEEDVILLE, Texas (KTRK) -- An 18-year-old from Needville has quite the fish tale! Jack Pytel shared photos with ABC13 of his big catch - a 190-pound, 7'5" alligator gar. He said he was in a creek near ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to science as Atractosteus spatula, it is the largest of the gar species alive ...

A drawing for 150 anglers to catch an alligator gar over 48 inches opens on Sept. 1. The prize is a permit to catch a large gar from a specific section of the Trinity River. The drawing is part of a ...

Webb County Precinct 1 Commissioner Jesse Gonzalez came face-to-face with a “monster” over the weekend. Gonzalez reeled in a 6-foot-5 alligator gar that weighed more than 200 pounds after a tug-o-war ...

Style: Scales Raw Material 2: Alligator gar Element: Complete Comments: These are interesting. Joan Gardner, conservator, writes in 2/77, "Two scales of alligator gar- lepisosteus tristoechus, which ...