Palestine, Texas
903-724-6888
BubbaBedre@yahoo.com
Live conditions for every stretch of the river, a date-by-date bite forecast, and the latest gar off our boats. Check it, then come fish the world's #1 alligator gar water.
Pick a date and a stretch of river and we'll read the gar bite — season, moon, water-temp trend, and the barometric pressure that turns big fish on — then give you the prime windows to be on the water.
A planning guide built from season, moon phase, and (within 16 days) the live forecast — not a guarantee. Gar are wild animals; the conditions on the day rule. Real-time water level & temp are in the conditions panel above.
A day that doesn't happen on ordinary water: our clients put four alligator gar topping the 100-pound mark in the boat on a single Trinity River trip. Back-to-back triple-digit fish, all released. This is why the Trinity holds more world records than anywhere on earth.
Book a trip like this →Where else can you wrangle wild hogs out of the river and pull up prehistoric alligator gar the same afternoon? Capt. Evan ran our clients on a true cast-and-blast — thermal hogs and triple-digit gar back to back. A Garzilla original you won't find anywhere else in Texas.
Book a cast & blast →Bridgette spent Mother's Day weekend on the water near Huntsville so her son Jaxon could check a giant alligator gar off his bucket list — and Capt. Cody made it happen. The kind of memory that's the whole reason we do this. The lower Trinity, 90 minutes north of Houston, delivers again.
Plan a Houston-side trip →You don't see this every day. On a recent double-header, a client landed two alligator gar — and the second was a rare melanistic (black) alligator gar. A trophy gar is a bucket-list fish on its own; a black one is next-level legendary. Proof of what swims in this river.
Chase a river monster →Live water level, flow, and water temperature for every stretch — Dallas, Trinidad, US-287 at Cayuga, Oakwood, Crockett, Riverside, Lake Livingston, Goodrich, and Liberty — are in the conditions panel above, pulled straight from USGS and updated automatically. Use the dropdown to check your spot before you head out.
April through September, with June and July the peak — warmest water, highest surface activity, and the biggest fish most concentrated. Summer dates book 6 to 8 weeks out.
Watch the gauge height and flow in the conditions panel. Fast-rising, muddy, high water makes fishing tougher; a steady or falling river fishes best. We monitor levels daily and rebook trips when the river or weather warrants — so book with confidence.
Gar feed hardest around the new and full moon, and the prime daily windows are first light and the last hour before dark. Use the Best Bite Calendar above to score any date and see that day's exact feeding windows.
Pick "Lake Livingston" in the conditions dropdown above for the current reservoir level, pulled live from the USGS gauge at Goodrich.
41 IGFA World Records. 19 years on the river. Peak dates fill 6–8 weeks out.
Book online Call (903) 724-6888