Additionally, the appearance of melanistic alligator gar can vary from a 'smokey,' shaded look to jet black, which is quite a beautiful fish." Realizing what a rare fish he had hooked made Threet ...

While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month, Art Weston, 52, caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that is likely to set records. At the time, he was aboard a ...