The Missouri Department of Conservation is now saying a reported shortnose gar was not a shortnose gar after all. In the past week, the department released information stating a Nebraska man was ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fish caught in the Lake of the Ozarks by a Nebraska man that was thought to be record-sized is not pure, the Missouri Department of Conservation said. Rich Porter of Omaha, ...

Rich Porter usually travels from his home in Nebraska to the Lake of the Ozarks a couple times a year to fish with a friend. During a recent fishing trip, Missouri officials say he set a state and ...

Rich Porter, of Nebraska, shot this shortnose gar May 16 while on a Missouri fishing trip. Missouri Department of Conservation/Twitter UPDATE: A record-breaking shortnose gar shot in Missouri wasn’t ...