Today we're out fishing for gar, specifically longnose gar. We're using small lures baited with a twister worm and casting them for gar. You can get your own Python Darters here: ...

Longnose Gar, as do all species of gar, have an air bladder that is conjoined to the pharynx. This conjoining allows this species to occasionally breathe oxygen almost like a terrestrial animal.

The MDNR describes the longnose gar as “a prehistoric fish distinguished by its long nose and hard scales.” The fish have been present in North America for about 100 million years.

Thus, it was a treat to see a longnose gar again, up close and personal. An aquatic foray on May 25 was spearheaded by fisheries biologist Kelly Capuzzi of the Ohio EPA and Amy Mackey, the Raccoon ...

A Texas angler who was fishing for bass received the surprise of a lifetime recently after the fish that attacked his lure turned out to be a 58-inch longnose gar. Callan Frazier, 16, was casting ...

Longnose gars typically grow to about 4 feet. In 2017, a Mississippi man set a longnose gar world record with his catch that weighed in at 48 pounds and 60 inches long. U.S.

Longnose gar feature a maw of needle-like teeth. Georgia Natural Resources . The current IGFA 8-pound test woman’s record for longnose gar is just a 12-pound, 8-ounce fish from Florida in 2017.

Submitted photo Keith Titus, 6, caught this longnose gar off the end of my mom's dock (his grandma) on Cross Lake Sunday morning. His aunt, Piper Titus, wrote me: " Keith has been fishing since he ...

Both Confair’s big fish that day topped the Maryland longnose gar record in the state’s Chesapeake division that weighed 18.3 pounds and was caught by Samson Matthews in 2020, also in Marshyhope Creek ...