Bryson Harpole of Ward didn’t only set a new bar for shortnose gar in Arkansas’s fishing records. He crushed the old record for unrestricted tackle.

The agency added that the current shortnose gar state record set in 2006 still stands. Aug. 18, 2022. A Nebraska man shot a monster shortnose gar in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks back in May. On ...

UPDATE: A record-breaking shortnose gar shot in Missouri wasn’t as it seemed, officials say, and it no longer holds the state’s shortnose gar alternative record. Genetic testing found the 14 ...

In the past week, the department released information stating a Nebraska man was bowfishing in May when he caught a new state record shortnose gar on Lake of the Ozarks. That status was rescinded ...

The Omaha, Nebraska, resident was bowfishing May 16 when he shot a 14-pound, 6-ounce shortnose gar at Lake of the Ozarks.

Rich Porter of Omaha set the record for alternative methods for shortnose gar. Porter was bowfishing at the Lake of the Ozarks on May 16 when he shot the 14-pound, 6-ounce fish.

A true lover of gar, Don Lawrence, caught the Illinois-record shortnose gar Sunday from Horseshoe Lake in Madison County.

The shortnose gar, along with its longer-nosed relative, is subject to new fishing regulations starting March 1. Spearers, anglers and bowfishers will be allowed to keep up to 10 gar.

He broke the Indiana shortnose gar record (which he still holds) in 2021. And on July 11, he added a second state-record gar catch: a 9 pound, 11 ounce spotted gar he caught from Rivir Lake. Now, he ...

He broke the shortnose gar record in 2021 with a 2-pound, 5.6 ounce catch, records show. Since then, he said he has been fishing for spotted gar “pretty heavily” to add to his collection of ...

“This gar was nearly double the old state record and was much larger than most shortnose gar we see,” said Matt Horton, habitat biologist at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Mayflower ...

UPDATE: A record-breaking shortnose gar shot in Missouri wasn’t as it seemed, officials say, and it no longer holds the state’s shortnose gar alternative record. Genetic testing found the 14 ...