NARRATOR: Four days into the season,
king of the swamp Troy Landry already
has a lot to worry about.
With low prices and buyers threatening to shut down early,
Troy's livelihood is in jeopardy.
TROY: The price of alligators which
we sell is at an all-time low.
I don't think I've ever seen the price as low
as it's going to be this year.
I mean, it couldn't be any worse for us.
NARRATOR: With over 450 tags left to fill,
Troy and Jacob can't afford to have a single bad day.
TROY: We've got our work cut out for us.
NARRATOR: So today, they're heading
to one of Troy's secret honey holes
where he always pulls in big numbers.
TROY: Can you see? JACOB: Yeah, I see it.
TROY: We've got one?
JACOB: Yeah
NARRATOR: But at their first line,
they make a disturbing discovery.
TROY: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Ooh, lord.
Aw.
We got a cannibal!
Right here in his side, he's got a big hole.
He's got a big hole in his head.
That's teethmarks.
Once a alligator's hooked on my line,
it's an easy meal for him.
And he'll come there and just eat and eat and eat.
He ruined that alligator.
NARRATOR: Already facing a cut in their profit
from the lowest prices in decades,
a cannibal gator on the loose in their honey hole
is the last thing the Landrys need.
And once they taste that blood of another one,
they don't stop.
He's gonna keep eating them until we catch him or kill him.
I know in my heart we gonna catch
less than we ever caught because of the conditions out there.
But we gotta try.
What's he look like, Jacob?
JACOB: Yep.
He got teethmarks on his back that wide.
NARRATOR: It looks like the cannibal gator
struck once again.
Are you joking?
That would have been a nine-foot
alligator if he wouldn't have had three foot of tail missing.
I don't know how I'm gonna tag that thing.
Like a vampire.
JACOB: Straight ahead.
TROY: You see something, Jacob?
JACOB: We pulled up to a line and had about
an eight-foot alligator on it.
Oh, look, look, look.
NARRATOR: Spotting what they believe
could be the vampire, Troy and Jacob
waste no time trying to nab this menace.
TROY: This is the cannibal, baby.
He was going to eat the one on the line.
There he is.
(GRUNTING) Yep, yep.
Oh, boy.
I've still got him.
Oh, yeah.
TROY: You got him?
Yeah.
Yep.
Oh, it's a big one too.
TROY: Woo!
Oh, he's barely hooked in.
Thank god he ain't fighting over it.
TROY: Shoot him!
Oh!
That son of a gun.
JACOB: Got him?
TROY: No, but he's rolling.
Shoot him.
Shoot him!
Ooh, yeah.
Ooh, he's not hooked good.
Hurry up.
I can't hold him.
Shoot him, Jacob!
[gunshot]
[sighs]
Huh?
Did you put a hole in him?
That's what you call a two-for-one special, my boy.
This is the cannibal, baby.
He was going to eat the one on the line.
[snarls] It's the vampire.
We got him.
[snarls] Get ready!
TROY: This thing was--
I mean, big, big, big.
He just eating gators off of people's line.
And I'm sure he wasn't just eating off of my line.
He was eating gators off of other hunters' lines too
in the area.
And that's how he got so big.
Oh, yeah.
That's for sure.
Man, I'm so happy that we caught him
today and got him out of there.
I'm real happy.
[snarls] [laughs]
Hey, big one, where are you at?