after long months of waiting louisiana's gator season is finally here
but this year promises a unique set of challenges with gator prices taking a hit in the marketplace
recently fewer hunters are willing to risk culling these killers and so the beasts are bigger
meaner and hungrier than ever before they're on top of the food chain no other predator that can
attack an alligator other than a person they're losing fear of us they're not scared of us at all
making things even more unpredictable louisiana is expecting a relentless hurricane season
but it'll take more than that to scare off the king of the swamp
with 500 tags to fill and three teams to fill them troy calls a meeting of team landry
you all ready what i'm hearing and seeing is more gate has been ever and more aggressive last year
we had a population exploding this year they're getting more aggressive and i guess that's because
the numbers they're getting hungry they're running out of food yeah and not only that they're coming
after the boat alligators would always run and hide and go down anytime they'd hear a boat coming
and now it seems like it's just the opposite all right y'all ready all right make it count
with no time to lose troy hits the water where the hell is pickles it goes and he's brought along an
eager new deck hand named pickle this year big t had to work on a job he couldn't get off of work
a friend of mine from uh below new orleans i've been knowing since so lord maybe 35 years now
he's got a niece her nickname is pickles she don't look too much like an alligator hunter
she looks like she should be in third or fourth grade at school or something she's so petite
but don't underestimate it she's tough holy holy holy what you doing with a pink gun cage
put that in the boat what put that in there but why do you want that i got it going that's a 708
a whoo that's a rifle that's the seven what you gonna do with that that's too big we're gonna
snipe them i pack a punch a lot more than people expect i've been hunting since i was three i think
i've just been hooked ever since and that's all we do down home is hunting fish we in a buy all the
time and we've been playing with alligator since we were little bitty i really respect mr troy and
i got a lot of appreciation for what he does and i'll be willing to do anything that he needs me to
it's good to have somebody like pickles in the boat now she's a good shot and it's just another
tulip to my advantage tell me how you got the nickname pickles because i'm allergic to pickles
well my middle name's nicole that's where it started from my daddy yeah my daddy used to
call me cheyenne to cool and it started sounding like shiny nickel after years of saying it you
know after that it was shiny nickel pickle now it's just pickle shiny nickel pickle yup that's
where i come from what about you you got a nickname no i ain't got no name what about
king of the swan where you got that from i don't know how the hell i got that name yeah me either
normally i don't like bringing little young kids on my board during alligator season because we
got so much work to do but pickles she's not a big person but she's strong and she grew up doing this
it looks limp huh i don't see the line you see it
going down the tree yeah right here in front of the tree what's it nice it's probably
the gun go get your gun
go damn dude
jaw back right there ready
what okay on today we're gonna go up and in you ready one two three
like that all right you feel like he's 15 feet trying to load him
i think i got a little bit to prove i mean my size kind of you know speaks for itself but uh
i'm a lot stronger than i look all right cinderella you're good i'm good huh huh the
big one is you can't hear nothing what huh huh so then big old is you can't hear nothing what
they ain't good for nothing i don't know what they doing up there they're good for decoration
well pickles i think she's learning me i thought i said you act just like my kid
you talk back to me like you're one of my kids i gotta read you so uh we're gonna get along good
looks a little wrapped up i seen some action
throw me the gun just in case it's a big one
you feel something oh yeah he's on there i just don't know what he is yet
when he decided all right yeah
he's still in hope oh my god whoa whoa oh
that's a bountiful
bring them up
all right okay hold it hold it and push it up like that oh look at the saw that i think i'm
enjoying fishing with pickles she's doing good i think she's bringing me good luck
mr troll look at look what well back there it is look at that big one you see him
get you gun get your gun come shoot
i think that's a little too far for you to shoot huh
come get on the motor right here what's up
if you hit him right there shallow we'll find him see him over there yeah see it get done
listen right behind the eyes and shoot right underneath dodge
good shot good job you got him you got him
grab my gun in case she's not dead all the way
oh
hurry up oh well that's a knife that's a big eyelid
that's a big buddy that one's dangerous oh no look you made a good shot the first shot you
get a good shot thanks to pickle sharp shooting the hunters have landed a monster 11-foot gator
and the king of the swamp is impressed oh that's what i'm talking about
she got him on the first shot it was very impressive
and i think she was putting out more than big teeth she wasn't scared or grabbed the lawn
she didn't sit on her cushion all day you know she was on the ball she was on top of things so
i was happy to fish with it it worked out good and mr troy you still regretting having
that pink gum case in a boat or what can't make fun of that pink gun case no more that
pink concave don't prove this after there after the shot i just saw you put on that damn thing
you