The Texas record book does list one alligator gar that is larger than Bill Valverde’s world-record fish, but there’s an asterisk: This one was caught on a trotline by T.C. Pierce Jr. on ...

A pair of seasoned, world-record-chasing anglers just left another mark on the record books. On Tuesday traveling angler Art Weston and Texas fishing guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland caught a giant, ...

Still, Myers thinks it could be the biggest alligator gar ever caught by a female angler anywhere. Read Next: Giant Alligator Gar: Trash Fish or Trophy Gamefish? “It’s the third largest I’ve put a ...

Art Weston lands a 153-lb alligator gar on 2-lb test. Once approved it will set a new IGFA world record as the largest freshwater fish ever caught on ultra-light tackle.

FWS describes alligator gar as “one of the largest freshwater fish in North America. They are also sometimes referred to as a living fossil because scientist can trace them back 100 million ...

A Kentucky fisherman, Art Weston, caught a 283-pound alligator gar fish while fishing in Deep East, Texas, last month which is likely to set two records.

Alligator gar is a type of fish found in Texas' fresh bodies of water. This fish can grow as long as 8 feet and can weigh more than 300 pounds. ... The biggest winners from Trump’s ‘big, ...

The first is the All-Tackle World Record for alligator gar, which currently stands at 279 pounds, set by Bill Valverde in December 1951 in Rio Grande, Texas. Advertisement ...

The International Game Fish Association say the alligator gar record is pending. But for Weston, it's all in a days work. he's submitted 81 world-record entries through his career as a fisherman.

EAST TEXAS (KYTX/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Two anglers caught a monstrous Alligator Gar. The numbers were big and have shattered world records. "This fish was 100 inches long, by 48-inch girth was 283 ...

This alligator gar caught in 1995 is the largest freshwater fishing record in Florida. However, a larger alligator gar weighing 132 pounds was captured in the Yellow River in 2011 by U.S. Fish and ...

A Kentucky angler, Art Weston, may have set a new IGFA world record when he caught a 7-foot, 153-pound alligator in Texas on the Sam Rayburn Reservoir with the help of an expert guide.