Big Gator............

• Aug 26, 2010

• #1

Bulldog22

Senior Member

This 12'-4" dinosaur was taken in Lake Harney Florida by me and my two buddy's with nothing more then two treble hooks and a bang stick on a 16' flats boat.

Ol' Toothy's brothers are still lurking out there.

 

• Aug 26, 2010

• #2

kc65

Senior Member

good lord, what a lizard

 

• Aug 26, 2010

• #3

watermedic

Senior Member

Way to go!!!

 

• Aug 26, 2010

• #4

tsknmcn

Senior Member

Nice one. I don't know about FL, but one that big in GA is usually nearing 100 years old.

 

• Aug 26, 2010

• #5

kmaxwell3

Senior Member

12' 4" gator x 16' boat = 3' 8" room for error not me! Good Kill

 

• Aug 27, 2010

• #6

ghost8026

Senior Member

i hope i can get one like that when season opens this is my first time getin drawn though so we will see

 

• Aug 27, 2010

• #7

Dep6

Senior Member

Nice one, job well done!!

As Gatorstick loves to say, "You have done your part to protect the Poodles in America!!"

 

• Aug 27, 2010

• #8

Gumbo1

Senior Member

Good job. You guys are lucky to still be with us.

 

• Aug 27, 2010

• #9

F

frydaddy40

Banned

Nice Job guy's

Nice job guy's. Those three legged crickets don't play.

Be he made your reel scream for a while.

12'4" is that the lake record?

frydaddy40

 

• Aug 27, 2010

• #10

gatorstick

Senior Member

Taking that gator was protecting cows & hogs!

Nice gator.
Where in Harney did it come from? Wasn't the one hanging out at Jolly Gator was it?

 

• Aug 27, 2010

• #11

Bulldog22

Senior Member

gatorstick said:

Taking that gator was protecting cows & hogs!

Nice gator.
Where in Harney did it come from? Wasn't the one hanging out at Jolly Gator was it?

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Close by the Jolly Gator.

If you drop in the boat ramp at the Jolly Gator and take the channel north he was hanging out at the first bend to the east. According to google earth he was 0.6 miles from the boat ramp, as the crow flies.

We were headed in for the night and this guy was stretched across the channel, almost daring us. We had tried him once earlier in the week and failed. We found two other big ones but could not get hooked up to them. Shoot me a PM and I'll give you their coordinates. The coves around cow island seem to be teaming with them.

 

• Aug 28, 2010

• #12

gatorstick

Senior Member

Thanks for the info.
Might have been the big one that hung out on the island across from the Jolly Gator. He finally got stupid & you were there to "educate" him.............

Harney is a tough place to hunt. Very good work!

PS
I don't advise to use only two fishing rods & a bangstick on a lizard this big. Always better to be lucky than good.

 

• Aug 28, 2010

• #13

Bulldog22

Senior Member

gatorstick said:

Thanks for the info.
Might have been the big one that hung out on the island across from the Jolly Gator. He finally got stupid & you were there to "educate" him.............

Harney is a tough place to hunt. Very good work!

PS
I don't advise to use only two fishing rods & a bangstick on a lizard this big. Always better to be lucky than good.

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It was stupid luck landing him. We were jamming back to the boat ramp and stumbled across this guy crossing the channel in front of us. He went under and one lucky cast hooked him up. Nobody even thought to grab the cross bow while we were wrestling this joker.

And you aint kidding about harney being tough. Last year on Lake Poinset I filled my tagsin about 5 hours of hunting. I am on night 5 at Harney, the gators are spookey.

 

• Aug 28, 2010

• #14

gatorstick

Senior Member

Bulldog22 said:

It was stupid luck landing him.

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I'll take "lucky" over "good" any day but "lucky" doesn't usually beat the law of averages............

Always be ready while on the water. We take many large "fringe" gators each season; at the landings, in the bushes, following other boats, behind a switchback corner, ect.
If you are ready with the correct dose of the right "medicine" when a good one makes a mistake..........

 

• Aug 29, 2010

• #15

CamoCop

Senior Member

that's a good'n for sure! we usually get 1 a year hit by a vehicle on our roadways that go 13+ feet.

 

• Aug 29, 2010

• #16

bfriendly

Bigfoot friendly

Congrats on a REALLY NICE Gator!! WOW, that must have been a blast!

 

• Aug 29, 2010

• #17

HALOJmpr

Senior Member

Just south of the restaurant back towards Lake Monroe there is a split in the channel and a few houses to the left. On the island created by the split used to reside one of the biggest gators I've ever seen. Ever tried in that area????

 

• Aug 30, 2010

• #18

Bulldog22

Senior Member

HALOJmpr said:

Just south of the restaurant back towards Lake Monroe there is a split in the channel and a few houses to the left. On the island created by the split used to reside one of the biggest gators I've ever seen. Ever tried in that area????

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I'm not sure where your taking about. Toi get from lake monroe from the jolly gator you would have to travel north. Across Lake Harney, puzzle lake is south of lake harney and the jolly gator.

More details please, i have one tag left.