When he put the gar in the boat, his handheld weigh scale registered 19 pounds. “I figured it would be a state-record fish,” he said. “But we kept fishing, and 20 minutes later I hooked another big ...

A fisherman made a “once in a lifetime” catch — to the delight of a North Carolina charter boat captain. “I have tried many years to find a fish of a lifetime and yesterday it happened,” a captain for ...