Update: The Missouri Department of Conservation announced on Monday, Aug. 22, that Rich Porter’s pending state-record shortnose gar was misidentified. Subsequent genetic testing by a Missouri ...

LAKE OZARK, Mo. — A Nebraska man is the new state record holder under alternative methods for shortnose gar. Rich Porter of Omaha, Nebraska was bowfishing on May 16 at the Lake of the Ozarks when he ...

Bradley Britt, a Chattanooga fireman, shoots at a gar while out on Chickamauga Lake with his father Richard Britt. Gar are common game for bowfishermen, who also shoot for carp and catfish. Bowfishing ...

A man from Nebraska is the latest to haul in a state record fish, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. Rich Porter of Omaha set the record for alternative methods for shortnose gar.