when you see less birds on a body of water or the shoreline or if the birds are congregating
on a shoreline typically there's something in the water they're aware of there's something
they're like oh something's not right so they get up out of the water because they feel safer
there because if they're swimming around with a gator in here they're fair game obviously
get around baby he's on
oh he's pulling he's pulling he's tugging he's talking see what pill picking up that hydrilla
that's some nasty stuff i can't help it to grow so fast here
now the idea is getting close enough to the bank
before i can get a snare on it let's see this stuff is going to plug up my line
he's coming up here
come on baby show yourself
he's rolling
right now i'm going to get whatever i can't get on i can get my stairs in his mouth
because if he breaks me off
little guy
just keeping pressure on him because he's got my line in his mouth
and that hook's barely in him
and he's got his mouth open
there we go that was just barely in
put that back in now i got him up off the ground so he can't spin on me
get him behind the head
i know baby no it's okay cleared look at all this stuff can't help it across so fast i
paying attention to where his mouth is his mouth is open and my hand is right by the hook
and if i can show you this i will
i'm just clearing i've got my hand on his neck i've got a grip on his neck okay so
right now he wrapped my line up
i want to get make sure i don't have anything stuck i know shhh
i'm not sitting on him i'm just
straddling
we're just gonna put a little bit of tape on
keep him safe keep me safe i have sharp sharp teeth at this age
how exciting is that what they do just going to tape his eyes
a little bit of tape on the front first line of protection and a little bit of
tape on the back secondary production and it just helps to keep them a little more quiet
five foot five foot on the nose okay five foot there look at this
hip is snap beginning of the eyes five inches approximately one inch per
foot five inches from the tip of the snout to the beginning of the eyes
equals
five foot gator approximately one inch per foot typically when people see a gator
they'll see the gator's head in the water they won't see the entire body so if you
can gauge this span right here where my fingers are one inch per foot this is i just measured it
tip a snap to the beginning of the eyes this span is five inches equals a five
foot gator that's a pretty good gauge and then i measure
the tail girth so a five foot gator with a 13 inch tail girth and girth being around
third row back from the behind legs and i checked and it is a female little girl put my deer back
but this these communities they really they they stay on top of their aquatics
but they got to deal with this stuff it grows so fast and it's it's below the surface of the water
you can't see it and this is what i get my hook stuck on
but then you see that she came up with it all over her head but i knew exactly where her jaws were
i'm not going to put myself at risk or anybody else at risk
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