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 ...

The Northern pike is a large, carnivorous species of pike fish found in lakes and rivers. In North America, they range in the northern half of the country, extending up into Canada and Alaska.

Why You Need the Best Northern Pike Lures for Consistent Success Northern pike are some of the most aggressive predators found in fresh water. They’ll eat fish, ducklings, muskrats and even ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas anglers have a golden opportunity to snag a trophy alligator gar in Arkansas. Applications for the 2025 Alligator Gar Trophy tag are open now until the end of 2024.

Northern pike are tremendous fighters and are fun to catch. They are excellent table fare, although I wouldn’t eat any unless I caught them in Canada, where they are plentiful.

Alligator gars are also among the ultimate " living fossils " — species that have barely changed for millions of years. A 2024 study found gars have the slowest rates of evolution of all jawed ...

Plugging the gar’s length and girth into two of those traditional formulas (one used by Trout Unlimited and the other by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) puts the fish’s rough total ...

Alligator gar are one of the largest fish in North America and they’ve been around for about 215 million years. They are up to ten feet long and sometimes weigh 300 pounds. Their huge mouths are used ...

Other rare versions of alligator gar also exist in Texas. In March, an uncommon cross between an alligator gar and a longnose gar was caught and released on the Trinity River near Huntsville.

Alligator gar, officially extirpated in Illinois since 1994 but now in a restoration program since 2010, were introduced farther north last year than its historical range in a nod to the changing ...

Fourteen-year-old George Abdo of Glenmont caught a 3-pound, 5-ounce, yellow perch on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Albany's Washington Park Lake. Keep clicking through the slideshow for big (and ...