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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.

Alligator gar are a bizarre freshwater fish. Typically described as prehistoric due to the fact they have changed so little over millennia, they are one of largest freshwater fish in North America.

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.

A giant, prehistoric-looking alligator gar has been caught by a fisherman using a bow and arrow at Falcon Lake, Texas.. On Wednesday, the fisherman's brother, Gerardo Benitez, uploaded pictures ...

Danny "Butch" Smith II of Oswego, Kansas, who landed the fish, a 4-foot, 6-inch alligator gar, weighing 39.5 pounds, knew he had caught something unusual.

Bedre grew up fishing gar on a private lake in East Texas. He’d shoot them with guns or bows, he said, before he learned that they don’t reproduce the same way other trophy fish in Texas do.

The Texas state record for an alligator gar caught by rod-and-reel is 279 pounds, and it was established on Jan. 1, 1951, by angler Bill Valverde, who caught the fish from the Rio Grande. CLICK ...

Alligator gar were once perceived as a lowly trash fish with no sporting value, no harvest limits and a history of overexploitation by commercial operations and careless anglers in other states.

A fisherman in Georgia recently broke the Lake Allatoona longnose gar fishing record with a 27-pound, four-ounce catch that measured nearly five feet in length.