While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month, Art Weston, 52, caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that ... by the idea of record hunting for musky in Wisconsin ...

Steve Barclay and Sam Lovell, aka the Gar Guys, are making an international reputation hunting giant alligator gar with ... the airboat ran over the gator, which sank out of sight.

"The Buffalo Bayou is just teeming with life, and, certainly, we experienced that firsthand," said Cooper, who with Parks reeled in an alligator ... gar. "For a fish that size, we're talking over ...