Undated photo of a longnose gar, a freshwater fish native to North America. In July 2021, the Minnesota Legislature approved setting fishing limits on longnose and shortnose gars for the first time.

Both Confair’s big fish that day topped the Maryland longnose gar record in the state’s Chesapeake division that weighed 18.3 pounds and was caught by Samson Matthews in 2020, also in Marshyhope Creek ...

Gar fish are covered by diamond-shaped, ganoid scales and bony skull plates and have long snouts/jaws with many sharp teeth. A primitive extension of the intestine, termed the spiral valve ...

Luckily, they had a certified crane scale and a game tripod with a winch on hand to hoist up the fish and weigh it. The freshwater creature measured 90.5 inches in length and 45.5 inches wide.

While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month, Art Weston, 52, caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that is likely to set records. At the time, he was aboard a ...

The MDC issued a press release congratulating Devlin Rich for setting the new record by catching a 10-pound, 9-ounce spotted gar on Feb. 25. The fish was officially weighed on a certified scale in ...

Decorative pins made from Gar fish scales by Janie Luster of Dularge. The meat of the fish was traditionally smoked into a food called “tasso.” ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife shared a photo of the record catch on the ground next to an angler. The state record for an alligator gar fish is 302 pounds, which was caught on a trotline in 1953.

Kyle Hammond of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been seriously chasing big gar records in his home state for three years now. He broke the Indiana shortnose gar record (which he still holds) in 2021. And on ...