The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is highlighting a fisherman named Jerry Threet after he recently caught and released an extremely rare jet-black alligator gar while fishing the ...

second only to white sturgeon. Prehistoric relatives of alligator gar first appeared around 157 million years ago. Today, alligator gar primarily inhabit the waters of the southeast U.S. and Texas.

In reality, alligator gar are shy, docile creatures that can live for decades. Second only to white sturgeon among freshwater fish when it comes to sheer heft, these slow-growing fish can take ...

When Kirk Kirkland was a teenager in East Texas in the 1980s, alligator gar were trash fish ... American rivers that grow larger, such as the white sturgeon, but that species also moves into ...

like the Spotted x Alligator Gar, look like something completely new, with the almost dalmatian black and white blotches.” “The Alligator Gar 'side of the family' seems to show through in ...

Fishing at McAlpine Locks and Dam, surgery on alligator gar, hunting coyotes ... We either got a white bass or a hybrid. Looks like a white bass. I'll tell you what. There are a lot of white ...

In addition, Tunnell also showed off one of the alligator gar's scales. "Very hard and sharp," he said, describing the scales. "Almost impossible to penetrate the fish's skin with these covering it." ...

Kentucky angler Art Weston snagged another gigantic alligator gar while traveling with his fishing guide, Captain Kirk Kirkland, aboard his boat, which he rightfully named the “Garship ...

"We set out large mesh, multifilament gill nets in the river, targeting alligator gar," Wright said about her first day fishing with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) collaborators on ...

EAST TEXAS, (KTRE) - A record-breaking alligator gar was caught in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in East Texas recently. The alligator gar is the largest freshwater fish in Texas. The species can live ...

alligator gar. "Their survival is in part because of their unique defense system — scales made of a super hard enamel called ganoine," said Wade. "This armor plating has seen them survive ...