A Georgia angler has established a new state record with her catch Saturday of a 31-pound, 2-ounce longnose gar. Rachel Harrison, of Adairsville, caught the toothy gar on the Coosa River near Rome.

I have fly fished for various warm-water fish. I have cast flies for bass, catfish, panfish, and carp. The one species I had not cast my fly toward, until now, was a gar. I had heard about it. But ...