Kirk Kirkland/Facebook A Kentucky fisherman caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that is likely to set records. A Kentucky fisherman reeled in a big one — a really big one.

The fish poses a threat to local ecosystems because of its voracious appetite, experts say. It also has few natural predators. In the United States, where the alligator gar population appears to ...

A gargantuan alligator gar caught in Texas may shatter the previous world record for its classification, a Texas fishing guide says. The 251-pound beast was caught Sunday, April 16, by Kentucky angler ...

He told Fox News: "I remember yelling, ‘Oh my God, that’s a monster!'" For two hours and 45 minutes, he and Captain Kirkland battled the colossal alligator gar relentlessly.

Additionally, the fish, which measured more than 8 feet in length and 4 feet in girth, could also set a record for largest gar caught with 6-pound test line, the IGFA says. Weston said he wasn't ...

When Kirk Kirkland was a teenager in East Texas in the 1980s, alligator gar were trash fish. Anglers used the dismissive term to refer to species that ate the fish they were interested in catching.

A pair of Maryland bowhunters got the shock of their season when they reeled in something big, toothy — and about a thousand ...

A prehistoric fish weighing nearly 300 pounds was described as a monster after it shattered multiple records. The capture of an alligator gar in Texas last month has gone on to break a staggering ...

A routine night of bowfishing for invasive Snakehead on the Bush River took a turn when a group of Harford County fishermen ...

The alligator gar is reportedly a sizable fish that is between 6 and 10 feet long and weighs between 100 and 350 pounds. However, it is still unclear how big and how heavy the gar, which was ...

A Kentucky fisherman reeled in a big one — a really big one. While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month, Art Weston, 52, caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that ...

A Kentucky fisherman reeled in a big one — a really big one. While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month, Art Weston, 52, caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that ...