Late into the gator season,
the Landrys still have close to 150 tags
from the 900 they started with.
Needing to fill their remaining ones with monsters,
King of the Swamp Troy Landry and his deckhand Pickle Wheat
return to a tried-and-true honey hole.
All right.
-Got us loaded up, little P? -Yeah.
There are monsters in this area, and I know it.
That'd be nice, huh?
Big old fat one.
I got a lot of tags for Lake Verret.
I hunt about 80% of the lake.
Certain places you catch big alligators,
certain places you catch little alligators,
but you learn as you go what to look for.
And on Lake Verret we target just the big alligators.
Oh, what we got, Peewee? What we got?
Look at that boscoyo all tore up.
See it?
It's all messed up.
-Looks like a crime scene. -Look at it.
Look at that boscoyo all tore up like that.
Oh, yeah.
We got a crime committed for sure.
Looks like a crime scene, Peewee.
Come on, come on, come on... right there, get it, get it...
Ooh, you're lucky to save that one.
Lucky it didn't pull the hook out.
Is he just wrapped up right here?
-He still on there? -I don't know.
It's kind of tight.
-Huh? -It's tight right here.
He still on there?
-Aw. -Aw.
He got off. Straightened hook.
That's not an alligator hook.
That's a #3 shark hook.
That's about five times stronger than an alligator hook.
That's a big alligator to do that.
You gotta understand, we fish with shark hooks, like,
that they catch Jaws with, okay?
And this alligator straightened out a shark hook.
And so he had to be doing
some major Megalodon power moves down there.
So of course I'm naming this alligator Jaws
for exactly what he did to this hook.
Listen, some you win, some you lose,
but he ain't won yet, okay?
He won this time, but it's not over with yet.
By the end of the day, we gonna win.
He won the battle, not the war.
We using #3 shark hooks,
and it takes a hell of an alligator
to straighten one of these things out.
We have maybe one or two a year that get straightened out,
and normally they get away, we don't catch 'em.
So when you got the opportunity to catch, you better catch.
Up-- watch the buoy. What are you doing?
-Ain't no baby. -Dude, what?
Good Lord.
Oh, I'm nervous. I'll sit down.
Yeah, sit down and be quiet a little while.
I see a little wave action underneath there.
We got one of your crime scenes over here.
What you got? Got something? Talk to me.
Got something on here. Oh, Lord, Troy Landry.
Talk to me.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
-We got something? -Yeah.
-Huh? -Yup, yup, yup.
-Good. -He's a good one.
Good, Peewee.
Oh!
Whoo!
Aah!
[gunshot]
Whoo!
Good job.
-One, two, three. -Oh, I ain't had nothing.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
Good alligator.
-That's not him. -Good alligator.
This eight-footer fills another tag,
but it's nowhere near big enough to be Jaws.
I thought I had Jaws in the boat,
and that's a big alligator.
But apparently Jaws is still swimming around
out here somewhere, so we're gonna have to come up
with a game plan on how to catch this sucker.
We need a new plan.
Oh, look. Just keep going straight.
It's tight going in.
Looks like it's gonna be wrapped up around this stump.
It's wrapped. See that little stump right underneath there?
-Yeah. -It's under there.
Oh!
Look at this. [gasps]
Whoa, a broken hook.
A broken hook?
Whoa. I ain't never seen that before.
I've never seen a broken hook like this before.
I've seen broken alligator hooks,
but this is a shark hook we using,
and I've never seen a broken shark hook. Never.
This thing is massive.
This is gonna be a Jaws of the alligators, I promise you.
-Gol. -He broke it.
Look at that. Not just broke, it's bent.
It's twisted.
It's bent and broken.
[chuckles]
That's a big boy.
What? What you talking about?
Wow.
I ain't never seen a hook like that.
Gol.
We definitely resetting this one, huh?
Oh, what you talkin' about, man.
Hey, I'm gonna try something.
You see how he bent that first one?
Just that one? I'm gonna put two of 'em on here.
You can't bend two shark hooks at one time.
You might be able to bend separate and break one,
but two together, we're gonna try it.
He might straighten one, but he ain't gonna straighten two.
Putting two.
Puttin' two hook?
Two hooks and two pieces of chicken.
Look at that rigamaroo.
I think we going to...
if the clothespin hold, we gonna catch him,
we gonna catch him right here.
-Oh, yeah. -He ain't gonna get away
from two hooks.
No, he ain't bending that.
Can't bend two of 'em, bud.
We gonna run more lines,
and late this evening we gonna come back over here.
Hopefully, hopefully we can hold him on this.
I think that's a good idea to put two hooks.
Oh, yeah.
We'll see if he's there.
We can't let him show us up.
This could be one of the biggest alligators we ever caught.
But, you know, alligators are just like people.
Every one of them has a different attitude.
Some of 'em learn, they get smarter.
If they get off of a hook, you--
a lot of times you're never able to catch 'em again.
Look tight there, P.
This is the double hook.
Oh, oh, oh, you saw
-how tight the line got? -Yeah-yeah-yeah.
Shake the branch, shake the branch.
-Look like a big one? -Yeah.
-Huh? -Yeah. Uh-huh.
He's under the boat.
Oh, he must be big.
You pull towards the bank.
I am pulling.
Pick him up, pick him up, Peewee, what's the hold up?
I'm trying not to piss him off.
Trying to do what you taught me to do.
Aah! Uh!
That-- oh, yeah, come on, come on, come on.
Look like Moby Dick.
That's Jaws down there, dude.
You see the size of that thing?
-Oh! -Don't let it go.
Whatever you do, don't let it go.
Don't let it go. Oh, oh!
-Oh! -Aah!
Oh!
Ooh, we need a bigger boat and a bigger gun.
Big boy.
Look like Jaws.
Watch him, Peewee.
-Oh! Yeah. -You all right?
-Whoo! We got him. -You got him.
You seen the size of that thing?
That's Jaws, Peewee, that's Jaws.
-That's your gator. -Couldn't beat that double hook.
God, I can barely lift him.
At 13 feet long,
this is Troy and Pickle's biggest dinosaur of the year.
This one is Jaws for sure, Peewee.
I know it's him.
We have a massive alligator.
I'm talking about as big as they get.
He looks like a dinosaur, he's so old,
this thing's been giving us problems
most probably for years and years in this area,
and we had no idea he was even here.
We got him! [laughs]
He's a horse.
Oh, yeah.