Alligator gar and their direct ancestors have been around for at least 100 million years. They look their age. That long, cylindrical, olive-white body is covered with an armor of thick, ...

I always have to catch myself when I spot a gar while fishing in Florida. Working a topwater plug near a shoreline, I'll often notice a gar breaking the surface with its long snout and sharp teeth.

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to science as Atractosteus spatula, it is the largest of the gar species alive ...

Anglers interested in hooking into an epic-sized trophy fish can apply for a 2026 alligator gar trophy tag from now until the end of 2025. Many Arkansas anglers travel all the way to the Gulf of ...