Zimmerman caught his longnose gar at Butterfield Lake in Jefferson County on June 21, 2024. The fish caught by topwater swimbait weighed in at an impressive 15 pounds, 14 ounces — which is 1 ...

They ran back in and took the gar to the Choptank River Crab and Oyster Co. in Cambridge, where it was weighed on certified scales. The big fish weighed 20.5 pounds, with a 49.5-inch length. Both ...

A Hilton man returned home with a huge fish story. Chuck Zimmerman set a New York state record for longnose gar, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced. Zimmerman hooked the ...

Evolutionarily speaking, longnose gar are considered living dinosaurs and New York is fortunate to have these fish swimming in its waters today. Their long, needle-like snout is filled with rows ...

The record-breaking catch surpassed the previous state record longnose gar, caught from Lake Champlain in 2018, by one pound and four ounces. Zimmerman’s catch was the first fish to set a state ...

Schooley said the longnose gar, also known as the needlenose ... as some sort of spoiler or consumer of game or sport fish." Gar are under the non-game classification, so they are not considered ...

According to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, the longnose gar is the only gar species native to Virginia. Its family dates back 245 million years. The fish is described by the ...

Biologists in Florida recently caught a fish with an unusual crooked spine, photos show. In a Facebook post published on Tuesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute published a photo ...

The strange-looking gar was caught in Silver Glen Springs, a natural spring that is about a 70-mile drive north from Orlando, Florida. Video screengrab WanderLensArtistry A “primitive” fish ...

According to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Chuck Zimmerman of Hilton, NY was fishing Butterfield Lake in the Town of Redwood when he caught a Longnose Gar. The fish reeled in ...