re: You go fishing and then this happens.

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If those ponds have any catfish they won’t for long. A small gator showed up at my Dad’s small pond. Left after a couple weeks. His pond had some large catfish. Not a single catfish to be found after the gator left.

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This is a new subdivision. The ponds are only a few years old. The only thing I have ever seen in any of them are tilapia. And there are tons of them. They have never been stocked. Ive looked for bass or bluegills but nothing but tilapia. And the gators love them. I have some cool videos of the gators chomping them down.

Correct me, if I am wrong (and you will). LA might have more alligators than FL, but when I grew up in LA, I never saw them, and they weren't in my backyard. We have alligators everywhere here in FL (my backyard included), and I don't live in a backwoods country bayou.

I spent 30 years in LA and only saw alligators at the zoo or on Avery Island.

12+ years in FL and have enountered gators everywhere.

Saw one not quite that big but close on the 15th hole at Capitol Hill. Hung out in the hazard next to the hole and was frequently sunning on the bank.

I got paired with a couple one day that had a 2 year old, running around like they do of course.

I told there were gators, including big ones around so keep a close eye on their kid. Think they did? Nope

Big one is sunning about 30-40 yards away, I’m trying to stay between the kid and the gator, and the parents are hacking it up not caring a bit about him. I just knew I was going to have to fight the damn thing.

Thankfully he decided he didn’t need a snack. That was more stress than I need

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They were always so skiddish. We’d run and slap them on the tails as kids like morons.

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They aren’t that skittish anymore. So many big one in SE LA they are fighting for food. More and more attacks on people will occur.

That's what I'm thinking too. I've lived in Louisiana my whole life and sure I see alligators. They even pop up occasionally in the neighborhood ponds. But when I travel to Florida I see them EVERYWHERE. I just assumed with Florida being bigger and having the Everglades that they would have more gators. Apparently we were wrong.

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Alligators have no souls, you know.

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I ain't never seen no ginger alligator (spoken in my best redneck voice)

In BR my HOA sent out a notice this morning that one was spotted in the lake behind my house. Yappy small dogs or gators? Gators are pretty quiet.

I knew Shelby Stanga back in the early 80’s. He was a weird dude. Hung around with Timmy Joe Cooper whose family owned the junk yard on Robert Road. They were KKK. I don’t know if Shelby was.

My dad wanted to buy a drag line from Shelby once. It was a rust bucket POS, but Shelby had him talked into it. Shelby was a con artist like my dad. Me and my brother would have had to keep it running, and we barely talked my dad out of it.

Alligators ain’t nothing. Some a-hole is probably introducing nile crocodiles as an invasive species that we don’t know about so give it another decade before y’all see them.

That old boy would have scooted right by you trying to get the hell back to a pond. Close to the water and it could be a different story.