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 ...

I have fly fished for various warm-water fish. I have cast flies for bass, catfish, panfish, and carp. The one species I had not cast my fly toward, until now, was a gar. I had heard about it. But ...

It’s a case of the one that didn’t get away and for a Floyd County, Indiana man it meant setting a new state record.

Angler Art Weston continues his mission of catching record-breaking alligator gar. With the help of Texas Captain Kirk Kirkland, Weston has obtained every line class world record for alligator gar, ...

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 ...