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Saved a Gator
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:36 am
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:36 am
Riding around the other day we noticed a trot line tied up to a tree. This tree was shaking in the water so of course we had to take a look. When we pulled the line up, we found a gator snagged on the bottom of its tail. We cut the line but didn't dare reach for the hook itself.
When we started pulling it up by the boat, he just sat there calmly. I assumed he had been snagged for a few days and had began losing his strength. Pretty cool experience I guess.
Worthless without pics, I know, so see below.
When we started pulling it up by the boat, he just sat there calmly. I assumed he had been snagged for a few days and had began losing his strength. Pretty cool experience I guess.
Worthless without pics, I know, so see below.
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Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:37 am to Redfish2010
That's an 800 lber.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:39 am to Redfish2010
dat's a big ole gatah. 
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:43 am to meauxjeaux2
Quit checking other peoples lines. What would you have done there were a 40# op on there?
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:48 am to Redfish2010
that's a twee shaka.
I dont know how you kept it from lunging out of the water and just eating the both of you.
That is what they do.
I dont know how you kept it from lunging out of the water and just eating the both of you.
That is what they do.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:49 am to INFIDEL
quote:
What would you have done there were a 40# op on there?
op?
Fwiw, there was a 40+lb catfish on the middle line which was almost white. Been dead a while. This line had been untouched for quite some time.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:54 am to Redfish2010
quote:Flathead, spotted cat, Opelousas, goujon etc.
op?
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:00 am to Redfish2010
Regardless. Tree moving=something on the line=more reason not to mess with it. Lot of work and time put into runnin lines. Some people weren't raised right and don't know not to screw with em. Just lettin you know.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:04 am to INFIDEL
Wow, I thought you were kidding.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:04 am to Redfish2010
Oh, that does look like a big arse gator.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:04 am to INFIDEL
quote:
. Some people weren't raised right and don't know not to screw with em
Raised just fine. Not my fault someone set a line and failed to come back and check it. I see nothing wrong with letting the gator off of it.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:05 am to Redfish2010
Fair enough.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:09 am to Redfish2010
FTR the problem isn't letting the gator go. Problem is checkin the line to begin with. Unless you had good reason to expect a small child to be entangled in said line, why check it?
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:11 am to Redfish2010
quote:
Saved a Gator
quote:
. Some people weren't raised right and don't know not to screw with em
Raised just fine. Not my fault someone set a line and failed to come back and check it. I see nothing wrong with letting the gator off of it.
LOL, no lie, some people weren't raised right and don't check their lines often enough. And going by a line that's going crazy and seeing a gator in the water isn't "checking" it EDIT: unless you guys didn't see the gator until you pulled it up). I've cut egrets and other stuff out of abandoned lines plenty of times. If people don't want their lines cut, don't leave 'em hooked and unattended for days and weeks. Respect the wildlife if you want to keep it around.
This post was edited on 7/5/11 at 9:12 am
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:11 am to INFIDEL
Or a snagged gator. I've seen what lines look like with fish on them. So he checked it? He took no fish that you are aware of and saved a gator.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:12 am to INFIDEL
You're taking this thread in a whole other direction.
1. The dead and floating catfish in the middle made it apparent that the line had been out there for quite some time.
2. Curiosity. Fish don't shake trees like that.
1. The dead and floating catfish in the middle made it apparent that the line had been out there for quite some time.
2. Curiosity. Fish don't shake trees like that.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:14 am to AlxTgr
quote:
He took no fish that you are aware of and saved a gator.
Took nothing. Except where we cut the line the gator was attached to. Even if we wanted to take something, we couldn't because the one fish attached had been dead for a few days.
If people want to run trot lines, fine. But don't leave that shite out there and not check it. If you're line is unattended, then
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:14 am to INFIDEL
I won't touch them no matter how abandoned they look, simply because my dad got threatened at gunpoint when he was younger by some crazy redneck who ran trot lines across a public canal. My dad and his buddy got one tangled in their prop and the dude started going ballistic. I don't want anything to do with that kind of shite, some stupid people out there
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:15 am to Redfish2010
one swoosh of its p0werful tail would have pulverized your bones. Now that's livin on the edge.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 9:16 am to NewtonDevice
No problem with cutting anything other then fish outta lines. No problem with cutting my lines if the hung in your trolling motor. But don't check it just you think somethings on it. OP didn't know it was a gator. Just saw limb move.
How do you know the lines weren't being run again? Catfish will die and turn white in less then a day in this heat.
How do you know the lines weren't being run again? Catfish will die and turn white in less then a day in this heat.
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