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Author Topic: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight  (Read 1984 times)


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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2023, 09:56:20 PM »
Imagine duck hunting and this absolute unit is just down there while you’re setting up decoys
What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.

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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2023, 02:12:42 PM »
Swimming lab would just be a swirl

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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2023, 03:15:11 PM »
Some high school buddies in Alabama got this 12'-9" 539 pounder a couple weeks back. Another buddy tagged two 10+ footers on opening night.

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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2023, 10:31:06 AM »
No thanks, I'll take the mt. Loins, bear and wolves rather than have to worry about one of those while you take a dip in a lake.

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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2023, 10:39:26 AM »
I grew up around them. Only had a couple hairy moments myself. Wakeboarded about 10' past one that surfaced right in front of me. Fishing the dock lights on kayaks at night we had one cruise up to try to get in on released fish. He got too close for comfort so we dipped.

Neighbor did get permission from F&G to shoot one in his yard that bit his dog. Otherwise, you kind of know where they hang out and swim where they aren't.

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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2023, 03:20:34 PM »
When my son was playing ball spring training was down in Fort Meyers Florida. One year my dad and I went down for a couple weeks, my son would take us bass fishing on off days when he had time, you can catch bass everywhere in that state pretty much because it’s waterlogged!🤣 We seen people fishing seepholes behind Walmart, ditches along side of the road etc.  One day he and a couple other ball players (including John Smolts, who was playing with the Red Sox at the time) took us to a golf course, not to play golf but to fish the water hazards etc🤣 We went through the guard gate not with clubs but with rods and tackle boxes. After catching tons of bass we ended up at a canal that skirted the 8th hole. My dad hooked a pretty good bass and my son was filming grandpa hauling it in when a HUGE gator came up out of nowhere and grabbed the bass and jerked the rod out of my dads hand. We told the coarse guys about it and showed them the video, they all said that was a big gator. A few days later we found out they called in an agency that captures problem critters. He ended up being 13’ long! My dad was literally feet from this thing when it popped out of the water to grab that fish! Amazing.

We drove “Alligator Alley” one day, unreal seeing hundreds of them lining the highway trying to get out on the warm pavement in the evenings, they would be lined all along the electric fencing keeping them from the highway.

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Re: Mississippi Hunters Land 14-Foot, State-Record Gator After 7-Hour Fight
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2023, 03:24:19 PM »
Golf course pond fishing brings out a lot of close encounters with gators haha. I feel like people always back away from the pond to drag the fish onto the bank, but it's also good for adding space for any gators that might be following.  :o

 


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