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Monday, October 06, 2014

Team nabs 713 pound alligator in Lake Marion

The alligator measured 13 feet 6 inches in length, Crider said.

"I was awarded the alligator tag this year and enlisted help from my friend Jonathan Smith to help locate and capture a large alligator," Crider said. "We spent several weekends scouting the different areas of Lake Marion for a trophy sized alligator. It takes a lot of time to search and get prepared for an alligator of this size. We went searching several weekends and weekday evenings before with little luck."

Crider said once they spotted the alligator, they used two boats to corral and hook the alligator, which only took one throw.

"The fight was on," Crider said. "We quickly tried to get the second boat in place to get the second hook into the gator with no luck. We had to pull the boats alongside each other long enough for me to jump into the boat with Jonathon so that we could get the second hook into the gator. This fight continued for about 35 to 40 minutes."

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Redneck Olympics at it's best.

Anonymous said...

This is in South Carolina, not all that far from here. I remember my grandfather used to talk about seeing gators in the Alligator River, just south of Albemarle Sound in North Carolina and that's a lot closer!

Anonymous said...

Why do you want to kill this animal?

Anonymous said...

5:26 To keep the population in control. Especially in areas where they creep into residential areas, due to overpopulation.

Doesn't take much common sense to figure that out. I know, tough to get here on the shore.

Anonymous said...

Poor Gator.

Anonymous said...

Awesome story... I want to do this, and win the bear lottery. Full freezer is a good freezer.