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 ...

KASKASKIA RIVER, Ill. — Cracking open a tank occupying the entire bed of a pickup, Randy Sauer, a stream biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, inspected the condition of the ...

Growing up as part of an outdoorsy family in the small West Texas oil field town of Big Lake—which, despite its name, has no actual permanent lake—I spent my summer weekends fishing. We would leave in ...

A “living fossil” not native to Kansas was recently caught in a southeastern river, but how it got there is a mystery. Now, state fisheries biologists can’t help but ask, “What’s an alligator gar ...

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 ...

Art Weston and his guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland were out chasing world records again in early April. This time, the accomplished anglers were fishing for a new world-record alligator gar at the upper end ...

It’s nearly time for that magical season of the year when anglers can harvest giant alligator gar on a section of the Trinity River. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department opens its annual alligator ...

Living in Florida is never boring. It may be hot, but we get excited when a "cold front" is predicted that will drop temperatures into the 80s or, gasp, the 70s. And who knows, we might — emphasize ...

Nathan Cooper and Pierce Parks, two 14-year-old freshmen at Memorial High School, are fishing buddies. The friends try to get out a couple of times a month, including last week. Cooper suggested they ...