Hunter, 18, bags 800-pound Texas record alligator

[TexasTowelie]

An 18-year-old Fort Bend County high school senior has become the record holder for the heaviest alligator ever caught in Texas.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials have certified an 800-pound gator bagged last week by Braxton Bielski.

He was hunting with his dad and a friend, both Houston police officers, after they won a Parks and Wildlife drawing for a five-day permit to hunt in the Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area in South Texas, about 90 miles south of San Antonio.

Wildlife officials say the 14-foot-3-inch gator could be 30 to 50 years old. It was hooked on a line with raw chicken as bait, then shot. They had to pull the alligator alongside their flat-bottom boat across the lake to a beach area to lift it into their boat.

Photos at http://www.theeagle.com/news/texas/article_d8dc878a-be68-11e2-beb7-001a4bcf887a.html .

[font color=green]The Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area surrounds Choke Canyon Reservoir.[/font]

[MotherPetrie]

1. Am I supposed to be impressed? I'm not. Fuck those killers.

[msongs]

2. cowards had to use a gun of some sort nt

[chollybocker]

3. What did the old gator ever do to him?

[Mopar151]

4. If you are managing a wildlife population...

An alpha predator who only takes what they are permitted, and pays for the privlege, is exactly what you want.

[LeftInTX]

5. Who knew Texas' record alligator would be in South Texas!!

[TexasTowelie]

6. I was raised about 15-20 miles southeast of Choke Canyon.

My father was a part-time preacher at a community to the northeast and had also preached at the church in Callaham which was relocated when the Frio River was dammed in the 1980's to construct the reservoir.

I could easily envision myself stepping on a gator since it looked like a log in one of the photos.