Kevin Willis, a fish and wildlife technician, recently caught a massive alligator gar while fishing in Matagorda Bay. Coastal Fisheries - Texas Parks and Wildlife posted a picture of Willis and his catch, giving everyone an appreciation for just how huge this gar was. Willis is completely dwarfed ...
READ MORE +Archive: May 21st, 2016
It's the stuff of nightmares, but this isn't a nightmare at all - and a GoPro captured it all. Randy Fales, of Satellite Beach, was spearfishing last Sunday near Sebastian Inlet, but he said when he surfaced, his boat was nowhere to be found. Fales said his boat, with his two daughters and others ...
READ MORE +Pearlfish Subjects Itself to Fate Worse Than Death in Order to Survive; Burrows Up Sea Cucumbers Bum
I don't envy the pearlfish - at all. While many types of fish are blessed with some sort of ability to defend themselves against predators, the pearlfish must rely on the kindness (or complete surprise and shock) of a sea cucumber in order to protect themselves. It's a hard concept to grasp. These ...
READ MORE +Didii Ishalook assumed he had harvested a small polar bear when he downed what looked like a small polar bear in Arviat, located on Hudson Bay, Canada. Upon closer inspection, he realized it wasn't just a polar bear, but some type of "half-breed." Image: theGuardian.com “It looks like a polar ...
READ MORE +This picture of a man holding a massive alligator snapping turtle has been making the rounds since Rebecca Bendell Boaze posted it to her Facebook earlier this week with the caption, “Look what a friend caught on Caddo in Uncertain, TX this morning.”. Having received nearly 10,000 shares, it's ...
READ MORE +Charles Patchen, 13, didn't want to go fishing with his mom and stepdad, Jeanette and Bryan Atwell, on Sunday afternoon. After catching a 63.8-pound flathead catfish - the previous record was 55.05 pounds - on the Chattahoochee River in Jackson County, Alabama, setting a new stare record, he's glad ...
READ MORE +The video of this real life sea monster (347-pound warsaw grouper) has gone viral several different times from several different locations, but here's the true story behind this beast. The massive warsaw grouper (not a goliath grouper or jewfish) was landed by angler Anthony Panipinto while ...
READ MORE +There aren't a lot of details on this video, but what happens doesn't need much explanation. Watch as the boat bobs and weaves through narrow trails on Lake Okeechobee at full speed, and then ... WHAM!!! https://youtu.be/zq-ChYy-0vM
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