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08-17-2006, 05:19 AM
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Gator hunting
It's 5:15 am, woke up and found my guy wasnt in, gave a call and they were on their way to drop the gators off. He was with our fish and game buddies ...(1) 9+ footer (1) 10+ footer and the big boy...a 12' 2"...dont have the pics yet but when I do, you guys will be the first......
 oh taken by bow....
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nothing like the smell of chanel and gunpowder in the morning Last edited by Valigator; 08-17-2006 at 05:27 AM. 
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08-18-2006, 11:10 AM
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yea yea, the fish and game guys have their tags and Frank came down from Colorado espercially for this hunt....so there will be plenty of nights I am left home. We got a boatload of permits and everyone needs their night...plus the weight carried on the boat is important...Tonight is my first night....
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08-19-2006, 08:44 AM
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ah you will love this one...put in at the south end of the lake around 9:30, had to wait as there were plenty of airboats waiting to launch....the water is very shallow as they keep the lake drained pretty good during hurricane season. Most of the boats were headed for deeper water, my guy headed in the opposite direction....into some shallow sloughs...cruised around for ten minutes and spotted a "big boy" came up next to him and he did a pretty powerful turnaround...since it was shallow he couldnt dive...but his wake was pretty awesome....aimed and right in the back....that just made him mad...he drug us around for a few hundred yards until I could reel him in close enough to hit him again with the harpoon...with both ropes brought him close enough to bangstick, took two 44's and he was history....gettin him in the boat was another thing....10 feet eight inches....heeeeehawwww
 PS he was on the line at 9:45, best time yet for that size...
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08-19-2006, 09:00 AM
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tonight I go with my son, what a freakin soap opera that will be
 He's already whining about the fact we are going together .....its a running competition every year.....and every year I beat him... first he'll whine who sits up front and we will bypass some really big boys, then we'll stop in a few hours get something to drink....rag on each other how he should have taken the shot, but was holden out...then he'll get itchy and tired...and around 2 or 3 am a big boy will come along...he will get it...bust his butt bringing him in......we re-rig everything, I take the front and in thirty minutes see another monster....I get him...bring him in and he'll be two inches longer.......hahahahahahah, Oh how I love that mother-son race.....then he'll pout for days...
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08-19-2006, 12:41 PM
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No mercy on him, he'll get over it.
Don't sound like there's much mercy on the gators either. Sounds fun.
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08-19-2006, 12:59 PM
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some more....
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL11/.../179289200.jpg http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL11/.../179289199.jpg http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL11/.../179289195.jpg
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08-19-2006, 11:09 PM
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Great pics Val. How many do you have yet to get? Hope you have lots of luck with the remaining tags.
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Bird Dogs and Hunting If you're betting against God, you better be right. "When a dog dies they take a piece of your heart but leaves you a piece of his, and humans always make out in that deal. " Mark Twain. Larry Miller
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08-20-2006, 08:47 AM
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hey we have a total of I think 60...so its gonna be a busy season....we didnt end up going last night a heavy storm moved in with lots of lightening, so it was pushed back till tonight....thats iffy for me I got a full day of work tomorrow, so I might even push it till Tues, since I am off on wed. whats nice is that the season is extended till Nov. 1st so we dont have to beat our guts out filling the tags....now if a hurricane comes in thats a ole nother ballgame...
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08-20-2006, 09:14 AM
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08-20-2006, 09:23 AM
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love these stories.....
August 19, 2006 Hunters nab gargantuan gators Alligator season began on Tuesday BY JIM WAYMER FLORIDA TODAY Hunters snagged gargantuan gators and adrenaline rushes this week throughout East Central Florida. Jerry Serna got his in the wee hours of Friday, when he, his son-in-law and three other men tugged for 31/2 hours to pull in an 11-foot-long alligator that laid claim to a piece of Lake Monroe in Volusia County. "The girth is what makes it so massive," said Serna of Malabar, who helped reel in the prehistoric beast with a snag hook. It was one among many behemoth gators landed the fourth day of Florida's annual alligator hunt. Serna knew it was there. Over the past few months, the gator would turn to intimidate Serna's mother, Joyce, whenever she fished from a boat about 200 yards offshore, in an area called Whisky Hammock. Not any more. The fat gator now lay upside down in a fridge west of Melbourne. "We've been seeing this gator for the past three nights," said Serna, an integrated science teacher at Stone Middle School in Melbourne. Serna estimates the gator weighs 400 to 500 pounds and was about 30 years old. It was the seventh of eight alligator tags the group bought for this hunting season, which started Tuesday and runs through Nov. 1. Hunters must pick one week to hunt within the first month of the season to stagger the effort on state waters. After that, if they still have tags left, they can hunt any time until season's end. They spotted it early Friday, around 12:30 a.m. They cast a spin reel with a snatch hook on 50-pound test line. The gator at one point broke loose, but floated up like a whale, tired. Adam Young, a student with at Florida State University, snagged it again, this time with line that could withstand 100 pounds of pull.
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08-22-2006, 08:46 PM
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This year you purchase your permit, which entitles you to two, then you could purchase additional tags for 60 bucks allowing two more....we purchased a total of about 60
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