“A true 1% likelihood catch,” Weston wrote in a Facebook post. The Kentucky-based professional angler has broken more than 80 ...

Angler Art Weston is a living legend in the fishing world and held 81 fishing world records at various points in his lifetime ...

Kansas wildlife specialists are gearing up to drop off another batch of alligator snapping turtles in a local river early ...

Art Weston, a Kentucky resident, went to Lake Livingston, Texas, to catch an alligator gar with the ... Last May, Weston and ...

This is Lou the Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle Their known for their giant beak shaped mouth that can close very fast and ...

Habitat degradation, historical overharvest and ongoing capture have caused significant population declines in the once-abundant turtle. Early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles ...

Alligator snapping turtle populations in Texas were dwindling. One family of smugglers had been poaching them from the state for years. The latest issue of Texas Monthly features more than the ...

Louisiana and Texas. But recent population surveys show the turtles are now likely extirpated in Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Historically, the alligator snapping turtle was ...

The state’s population wasn’t alone either, alligator snapping turtle numbers declined across the U.S. in the 60s and 70s. “[Snapping turtles in the] entire southeastern U.S. were harvested ...

In 2023, he set a world record with a 283-pound alligator gar caught at Sam Rayburn Reservoir in East Texas, according ... a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle with Kirkland’s help ...