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 ...

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 ...

An alligator gar, a large fish that is often referred to as a "living fossil," was recently caught in Kansas—the first time the species has been recorded in the state, wildlife officials said. Angler ...

Alligator gar have all the major characteristics of a trophy gamefish. They’ll eat a variety of baits and lures, they pull like hell, and, most importantly, they’re giants. The species now has its own ...