Field Notes
Catching, cleaning and eating huge gar
Baylor Allen has devoted a lot of time to studying and researching techniques on how to most efficiently deal with alligator gar.[…]
Alligator gar
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Hooking into river monsters
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné went after alligator gar with Vinnie of the YouTube channel PelicanBoneOutdoors.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Reader Report: River monster
Willis Deshotel was at his camp on the Red River in Grassy Lake WMA on June 17 when he caught this 182.5 pound alligator gar.[…]
Fishing Reports
6-foot alligator gar
Chad Koch posing with a 6-foot alligator gar caught in Vermilion Parish on June 7.[…]
Fishing Reports
Slade Dowden’s gar win
Slade Dowden was with his Paw Paw Andy Martarona when he won first place in the Gar division.[…]
Fishing Reports
Daytime bow fishing
This alligator gar was taken by Dallas Carpenter in the back water swamps of Berwick.[…]
Field Reports
Catching monster garfish on jug lines
Jared Serigné goes out with some commercial fishermen to catch alligator garfish on jug lines to be sold in seafood markets.[…]
Fishing Reports
84-inch Lake Pontchartrain alligator gar
I caught my biggest alligator gar at Lake Pontchartrain. It was on a 1/0 live bait hook and heavy braid as the leader using carp for bait.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tulane professor lands big gar at Mardi Gras Pass
Dr. Grant McCall caught a 6-foot-6 alligator gar while fishing on the Mississippi River near Mardi Gras Pass on Aug. 22.[…]
Fishing Reports
Tchefuncte gar
Mike Jones with an impressive 78 pound alligator gar he caught on jug lines in the Tchefuncte River.
Field Reports
Bowfishing in the Hopedale marsh
Shawn Nelson and his dad both got to experience bowfishing together for the first time and had a blast catching redfish and gar in Hopedale.[…]
Inshore Fishing
What’s to use for alligator gar bait?
Striped mullet, that’s what.
This isn’t a finesse, artificial lure fishery. Gar and sharks are big, pug-ugly brutes that are looking for mouthfuls of meat.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Step-by-step: How to clean an alligator gar
Alligator gar are encased with an almost impervious layer of scales made of true bone. Here are 8 steps for how to clean them.[…]
Features
Lake monsters – How to catch and clean alligator gar
The kraken (pronounced KROK-in) is a legendary giant sea monster said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Apex Predator: Catching 6-foot garfish in an 8-foot ‘yak
I’ve always found wrangling big fish exciting, but doing it from a tiny 8-foot kayak took the thrill to a whole new level. Last month, I spent an evening targeting big alligator gar with noodle lines — and what I ended up hooking pulled me a lot more than I pulled it.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Pontchartrain yields monster alligator gar
Capt. Andy Jones loves to chase trout and redfish like the rest of us, but in the heat of the summer he targets bigger, toothier critters that swim in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]