It became a passion when he started thinking of ways to broaden his career as a conservation educator.Īdmiring the work of Animal Planet’s extreme angler Jeremy Wade of “River Monsters,” Moore started learning how to fish more effectively, and that’s when his YouTube channel started. “When you see me next to that gargantuan fish, it makes it a little bit easier to believe that it was that big,” he said.įishing was something that the 32-year-old man from Sugar Land, Texas, a suburb of Houston, would do from time to time growing up. He said it is the largest such fish ever filmed alive in North America, but that’s not an official record. SUGAR LAND, Texas – Ask YouTube angler Payton Moore about the biggest fish he has ever hooked, and he will tell you it was like walking a Tyrannosaurus rex in the muddy waters of a Texas bayou.Īccording to Moore, the massive 8-foot-2-inch alligator gar weighed an estimated 300 pounds.

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