When someone asks you what the longest river in the United States is, you might immediately think of the Mississippi River.

DNR says this is Confair’s second time as longnose gar record holder. Confair set the record in 2019 with a 17.9-pound gar, but was later surpassed by Samson Matthews with a 18.3-pound fish in 2020.

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 ...

longnose gar are native to South Carolina. What makes this one black, however, is the melanin. According to the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, “melanism is an abnormal extent of dark ...

According to information from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, longnose gar are native to South Carolina. What makes this one black, however, is the melanin. According to the FWC ...