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'Once in a lifetime': Two boaters reel in a massive one-eyed alligator weighing over 477 pounds.DIAMONDHEAD, Miss.
It was like a scene right out of Jurassic Park when two gator hunters (John Ladner and his friend, Derek Stiglet) pulled a massive alligator out of a Mississippi marsh. "I said, we have a dinosaur, this thing is huge!" Ladner told CNN. The two were in Ladner's 14-foot boat.
"My buddy was on the front of the boat ... and just saw a gator eye and said, 'It's over there!' ... when we hooked it we thought it was a log because it wasn't moving like an alligator would."
Ladner had to call a friend to come with a larger boat, since their small vessel was not going to be able to accommodate the load. They thought it was dead until it started thrashing its tail back and forth.
"The whole time we were waiting for our friend we just prayed (the gator) wouldn't take off and flip our boat." It took three hours to get the gator into the boat, and when they got the gator to shore, they had to use a tractor to remove it.
A game warden came down to see just how big the catch was. It was determined that it was one of the biggest captured in the Diamondhead, Mississippi in the last 15 years.
The gator weighed 477.6 pounds and was 12 feet long. Ladner said that the animal had over 100 pounds of meat.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/us/massive-gator-caught-in-mississippi-trnd/index.html
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"We're going to need a bigger boat" (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Sep 2020
OP
Though it would be nice to relocate that big guy, legal hunting season started August 28.
txwhitedove
Sep 2020
#4
packman
(16,296 posts)1. Disgusting that idiots have to kill such an animal
to make a living and the state doesn't have a law to protect an animal of its size.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)3. "It's big and beautiful - I gotta kill it."
"And then gloat about how big it was, and take my picture with a dead carcass."
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)5. "100 pounds of meat"
Meat doesn't grow on trees.
txwhitedove
(3,933 posts)4. Though it would be nice to relocate that big guy, legal hunting season started August 28.
I assume some hunting is to thin the population. Diamondhead, MS, is suburb north of I-10. I wouldn't want him in my backyard.