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Gator tags - how much $
Posted on 7/27/13 at 6:34 am
Posted on 7/27/13 at 6:34 am
What is the average price for a land owner to charge for a gator tag in North La. ?
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Posted on 7/27/13 at 7:19 am to XKEnut
Land companies I have dealt with typically charge 15-25% of the revenue off the tags.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 7:39 am to JasonL79
How many gators are allowed per tag?
Posted on 7/27/13 at 7:41 am to XKEnut
I gator per tag. To give rough idea what alligators are worth. I have filled 25 tags each year for the last three years. The gross sales of all twenty five alligators with right at 7 ft average each year was $1800, $2500, and $3000. So the prices have been improving. Alligator pretty much has to be bigger than 7ft to be worth anything.
This post was edited on 7/27/13 at 7:45 am
Posted on 7/27/13 at 8:56 am to XKEnut
Gators aren't worth your time to fill the tags but you can make some money doing guided gator hunts
Posted on 7/27/13 at 10:12 am to yellowfin
Exactly! That's another reason swamp people is so funny when they act like its a lot of money involved in what they are doing. The money is in the show not the alligators!
Posted on 7/27/13 at 10:27 am to Hankg
So I'm curious about something. If you pull up your line and see that you have a fairly small gator on it, can you just cut the line, set it free, and not harvest the gator, if it's not worth much money and save your tags for bigger gators?
Posted on 7/27/13 at 10:30 am to kywildcatfanone
Yes just cut the line. Alligators have bad arse acids in their stomached that will just dissolve the hooks.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 11:13 am to NattyLite
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Yes just cut the line. Alligators have bad arse acids in their stomached that will just dissolve the hooks.
They never show them doing this on Swamp People. It's my only reference point.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 11:18 am to kywildcatfanone
Not legal to cut small alligators off. Only legal when you have more gators hooked than tags left.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 12:01 pm to NattyLite
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Yes just cut the line. Alligators have bad arse acids in their stomached that will just dissolve the hooks.
I don't think it works this way all the time or even most of the time.
I've cut some off in the past(after I was finished with my tags) and found them dead and floating on top the water in the same area the following week.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 12:18 pm to JasonL79
Well I hunt one long canal on my hunting lease which i travel seceral talmost daily and I've cut off quite a few and in nearly 20 years of doing so have never seen one floating.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 12:31 pm to NattyLite
I think it totally depends where the hook is imbedded. I get one or two a year dead on line when I get there. Hook must have went through stomach and punctured an organ or something. I totally believe if hook is just stuck in most places gator will recover. I have had a couple throw up in boat and I bet that shite that came out could dissolve anything.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 12:53 pm to JasonL79
quote:I remember back in the late 80's they were $50.00 per foot.
Hankg
So the prices have been improving. Alligator pretty much has to be bigger than 7ft to be worth anything.
quote:A bird in the hand... They keep it, skin, scrape, fill with salt and tie. Hold on and see if you get a bigger one.
kywildcatfanone
So I'm curious about something. If you pull up your line and see that you have a fairly small gator on it, can you just cut the line, set it free, and not harvest the gator, if it's not worth much money and save your tags for bigger gators?
quote:They live better if you leave the tail on.
JasonL79
I've cut some off in the past(after I was finished with my tags) and found them dead and floating on top the water in the same area the following week.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 1:54 pm to Hankg
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The gross sales of all twenty five alligators with right at 7 ft average each year was $1800, $2500, and $3000.
wow, I didn't realize they were worth so little...that doesn't seem like it would pay for boat gas....
Posted on 7/27/13 at 1:57 pm to Hankg
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I think it totally depends where the hook is imbedded
This is true. It depends on if the hook goes through their stomach and punctures something vital and how hard they fight it while hooked.
But there is no way to know how bad their insides are damaged after cutting them off. I know of hunters that cut some off the line illegally because they are too small to make money and you will see them riding around floating belly up because of this.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 2:00 pm to Geauxtiga
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quote:kywildcatfanone So I'm curious about something. If you pull up your line and see that you have a fairly small gator on it, can you just cut the line, set it free, and not harvest the gator, if it's not worth much money and save your tags for bigger gators?A bird in the hand... They keep it, skin, scrape, fill with salt and tie. Hold on and see if you get a bigger one
You can't do that anymore. With the tagging system, the alligator hide business is extremely regulated. Every alligator has to be tagged immediately upon taking the gator and every buyer must record the tag and report to wildlife when buying.
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