Alligator?

[Guest]

Was watching ten oclock news when they reported a 5 ft gator laying on a log in the tenn river around rhea county. Did anybody else see this? TWRA was called and the gator was shot. That is scarey.

 

[BadBass]

Had not heard about this , but several years back a gator was struck by a car just north of scottsboro, AL on a road that crosses some swampy backwaters of the Tenn.

Fished on Eufaula alot while I was in school. Lots of gators, from some reason always got an erie feeling when a 12 foot gator was laying near you.

 

[pondguy]

I seen it.I wonder if they will open it up and see what and how much its been eating

 

[Guest]

My only concern is rhea county is way more north than scottsb... IM SKEERED, okay I said it. Dont like gators and dont like snakes would they all stay south for heavens sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DHaun]

If that's the case I wonder, how it got here and I figure it must be pretty sturdy to survive the cold weather we just had.

 

[Rivermont Jeff]

PROBABLY BEEN EATING BASS LIKE THE ONE PERCHJERKER CAUGHT 9.8. WHAT A FISH!emoThumbsup

 

[Guest]

Wow. First off, I think that it's cool that there was a gator there, and it ticks me off that they shot the poor thing. Why not trank it, and remove it to a place where it could live in peace? Sounds like you all aren't the only ones with a phobia of alligators.

Personally, I wouldn't mind having a couple of gators around this area. It would add to the scenery. They are beautiful to watch.

Hate to hear that they needlessly disposed of it, but I suppose that's the price of someone wanting a pet that they can't handle.

 

[Liveliner]

Yeah I saw that.. Scared??? Go night Bass fishing with me in a lake that joins the swamps in South Georgia. Last time down there we counted Twenty Two gators. Two were about 10 footers. The big ones were chewing on a deer that had tried to swim across the lake or got too close.

What is so funny or scary is that my buddy did not believe me when I told him to keep his hands and feet out of the water. We fished all evening and he was dangling his feet off the boat in the water. When a Five footer hit his topwater lure only feet from the boat...That got his attention.

 

[fischnrod]

Hey Perchjerker ,shut up and fish you big baby!

 

[Guest]

That gator will eat that allison, oh yeah you want my autograph?

 

[whenwegoin]

Just as long as it stays out of the secret hole.

 

[carolf29]

perchjerker - 3/11/2007 10:36 PM</p>

 Dont like gators and dont like snakes would they all stay south for heavens sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[minner]

It must have locked through from Wheeler LakeemoLaugh. Quite a few years back DNR put some on Wheeler Wildlife Refuge to control the beaver population and they flourished in that area.

No worries guys we grew up skiing, tubing swimming in the gator infested waters of the Alabama River, we never had or heard of an encounter either. There's a place on the Mobile Delta (yes, as in Mobile AL) that is a long straight slough. At night you can see 30+ gators with one flash of a spotlight. In the day time that same area used by slalom skiers.

........wish I could find the video of that gator chasing my buzzbait to the boat every cast..........

 

[Jmax]

Miner is right on that one. They will leave humans alone 99.99% of the time. The main problems I have seen with them in Arkansas is you have got to watch your pets. Remember a guy lost his lab to one. They also get a little crazy if you come around their beds where they have eggs or babies. Most of the time they will just go under and hide until you go on by. Jmax

 

[bkschiavon]

interesting story

 

[fishinvol]

perchjerker - 3/11/2007 7:36 PM

My only concern is rhea county is way more north than scottsb... IM SKEERED, okay I said it. Dont like gators and dont like snakes would they all stay south for heavens sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perch,the only reason you don't like gators is because they will eat your 9lb bass!!!

 

[minner]

Jmax - 3/12/2007 7:41 AM

Miner is right on that one. They will leave humans alone 99.99% of the time. The main problems I have seen with them in Arkansas is you have got to watch your pets. Remember a guy lost his lab to one. They also get a little crazy if you come around their beds where they have eggs or babies. Most of the time they will just go under and hide until you go on by. Jmax

What you said reminded me of a story about 2.5 years ago: My brother-n-law, soon to be wife and I were fishing a slough in the Lower Mobile Delta. We had just picked out our new puppy (from mom and dad's dogs) and took him along for the ride at 5 weeks old. As we were flipping the banks at stumps the puppy found himself fascinated with his reflection in the water. We thought light of it and let him "learn a lesson", after all it wasn't but about a 10" drop off the back of the bass boat. 1 minute later he fell in and began swimming away from the boat toward the bank!!! We turned around to go get him heavy and hot on the trolling motor and grabbed him up scared to death and soaking wet. After all the commotion we started hearing a chirp-chirp sound like a nest of baby birds. After closer investigation not 40' away it was a nest of 8" baby gators at the waters edge. Had they not moved we still would not have seen them because of there God given camouflage even though we were 10' away now? Well the baby gators now even more aroused because of our presence began to chirp louder. Knowing Momma gator would be near by we decided to ease off, as we turned the boat with the trolling motor Momma gator was only 30' away and she was BIG. We decommissioned the trolling motor and cranked the big motor and got out of Dodge.

So I wondered how many more seconds my swimming puppy would have made it before he would have gotten eaten. (I also thought of my fiancé’s hand reaching down and scooping him out of the water.)emoVomit

 

[Tr19]

I agree about those gators needing to stay south of here . I caught several of them on golden shiners in Florida . Those five footers sure are fun to fight on 30 lb. line before the line finally breaks !

 

[drumking]

Did they eat it after shooting it? Taste like "chicken". emoUpsmile emoGeezer

 

[Gator]

I've not ever seen one around here but when I lived in Huntsville (10 yrs. ago) our minister fished in Decatur Ala quite often and had seen one there. Skeeeered me just thinking about it.