Crooked gar isn’t a known species, but a unique longnose gar caught by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist must not have gotten the message. On July 2, the FWC Fish and ...

Living in Florida is never boring. It may be hot, but we get excited when a "cold front" is predicted that will drop temperatures into the 80s or, gasp, the 70s. And who knows, we might — emphasize ...

Urban lakes usually aren’t home to record-breaking fish, but Orlando’s Lake Lawne is going into the record books not once, but twice. It’s all thanks to Pat McDaniel and the Florida gar. McDaniel’s ...

They have irregular, round, black spots on the top of the head, over the entire body and on all the fins. Other gars, except for spotted gars, have spots on the fins and usually on the posterior part ...