catching a gator in a pond...need help?

do you want to:
(a) kill it and eat it?
(b) just kill it?
(c) catch it and remove it?


(a) buy some chicken leg quarters and let them get good and nasty. Get a big hook (i mean big) and some black twine. Cut a stick about 8-10' tall and a piece of bloodweed or something like that the same length. tie the twine to the stick that it sticking straight up. place the bloodweed at a 45* angle over the pong with the chicken hanging a foot over the water. wait till hes on the line, pull the line till he's up and pop him with a .22

(b)just pop him with a .22 behing the head

(c) call LDWF

well i want to catch him for pictures and havent decided whether i want to kill him...how do you skin/get meat from a gator

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REMOVE ALL FAT FROM THE MEAT

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And always drive the speed limit.

Call Troy Landry

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And always drive the speed limit.

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To the OP, choot it! Fa realz.

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Better call LDWF before you do anything, or you could be looking at a Lacey Act violation

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The Lacey Act is geared towards trafficking in “illegal” wildlife, fish, and plants.

Is it applicable here? Serious question.

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The original Act was therefore directed at the preservation of game and wild birds, making it a federal crime to poach game in one state with the purpose of selling the bounty in another.

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It was the first federal law protecting wildlife, although today it is primarily used to prevent the importation or spread of potentially dangerous non-native species. The Lacey Act also makes it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce any plant in violation of the laws of the United States, a State, an Indian tribe, or any foreign law that protects plants.[

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Not sure of the specifics, but a guy I know got busted (different circumstances but similar) and they took him to the cleaners, happened in Plaquemine about 3 years ago, just got finished with court and he had to pay a huge fine and lost hunting privileges for several years.

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Yeah there's no doubt it's illegal and I get that's what you were conveying. I'd never heard of the Lacey Act so did a search to learn and only reason I asked.

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I thought we were talking about a private pond here where it seems you have the right to choot it.

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Negative, just like a deer, duck or turkey you have to follow any game laws that apply

the funnest and easiest way is to use a strong fishing rig/pole with a top water bait.