While fishing in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in eastern Texas last month, Art Weston, 52, caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that is ... news to compelling human interest stories.

1 hour 30 plus of graft and knowing how to play big fish ... was a monster over 8 feet yet to be landed." It required the use of two slings to haul the catfish onto the shore, and a human body ...