re: Cooking a whole small gator

I've cooked gator before many times as a sauce piquant but never on a grill or smoker.

I would think you'd have to cover the thinner areas of the meat in the legs and end of the tail with foil during the cooking process to keep them from burning or possibly drying out too much since they are thinner than the bulk of the tail meat.

Three feet with the head still on is really a small gator. You probably don't have but 5 lbs. of meat on that thing once cleaned and cooked.