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 ...

Update: The Missouri Department of Conservation announced on Monday, Aug. 22, that Rich Porter’s pending state-record shortnose gar was misidentified. Subsequent genetic testing by a Missouri ...

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A world record fish ...

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 ...