NARRATOR: With the end of the season looming,
King of the Swamp, Troy Landry, and his deck
hand, Pickle Wheat, can't afford to miss a beat.
But today they're hunting without one
of their most important tools.
I love this thing.
TROY LANDRY: When we would get on the same side of the boat,
it would lean.
And it would help us to put in big alligator.
It would work with us.
This boat don't work with you.
It don't give.
So I made us a couple of straps.
And we just put them around the alligator's front legs.
Instead of trying to squeeze the leg that's
all slimy and full of blood and mud, with these things,
you get to pull.
One, two, tree.
And it gives us the upper hand.
It's the little trick we need to bear the load of big alligators
in my new boat.
Unfortunately, we lost him.
And it looked like I could be struggling.
Hey, look like we got something here.
Oh, look like we got a crime scene.
PICKLE WHEAT: Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
TROY LANDRY: Oh, hit the corner.
[music playing]
Woo, it's a big one.
Shoot it.
[bang]
Good job, Cinderella.
We got our work cut out for us.
NARRATOR: This 10 foot gator put up a good fight.
On three.
No, he doesn't.
NARRATOR: But for Troy and Pickle,
the battle has just begun.
You know, this alligator is a nice gator.
It's a pretty big alligator.
But we catch them a lot bigger than this.
So if Pee Wee and I are struggling this
hard to put this one in the boat,
oh my goodness, I hope this is not a disaster.
One, two, three.
OK.
You know, I'm not 30 years old.
I'm looking to make things easier, not harder.
I'm starting to get pretty aggravated.
I don't have a come along.
I don't have a win.
I really don't have nothing in my book to prepare
me for what's going on here.
But I've got to figure out a way to make it easier for us.
You see something? I don't see nothing.
PICKLE WHEAT: I do.
TROY LANDRY: Oh yeah, OK.
[laughter]
Uh oh.
TROY LANDRY: Got something?
Nice one?
Yeah.
[music playing]
TROY LANDRY: Oh, it's a bit one.
Harder, Pee Wee, harder.
I need some slack.
Bring him up, bring him up, bring him up.
PICKLE WHEAT: Shoo.
[bang]
Whooo.
Good shot.
That's what I'm talking about.
Good shot.
Oh, look at the bubbles.
What do you mean, good shot?
You expected anything else but a good shot?
Sometimes.
TROY LANDRY: How in the hell we're going
to get this thing in the boat?
You're going to be hard to load.
I know.
OK, ready?
One, two, three.
I need a drink.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm beat.
I'm about 40 years younger than you.
And I've been tired.
We managed to get this alligator in a boat with all the manpower
that we have.
And I'm just ready to cry at this point,
because, like, I can't help him as much
as he needs me to help him.
And that is very discouraging.
TROY LANDRY: I'll put you right over the end of the tree,
see if you can find where the line comes out.
Come on, grab the tree.
Pay attention.
The first shot you get, I want you to shoot.
This is the-- probably the biggest one
we're going to catch to date.
Maybe, might be the biggest one all year.
Oh man.
He's heavy.
First time you see his head, [inaudible] no matter what.
[music playing]
Woo!
Show them who's the boss.
Got it?
Oh, oh, come on, [inaudible].
Keep him away from the boat.
[bang]
OK, he's dead.
How in the hell we're going to get this thing in the boat?
We're going to use this old dead tree right here.
I got a strap in the bow, not that long.
Hey!
Oh, thank God.
We're trying to figure out how we're going to put
this big thing in the boat.
We hear a boat coming.
And it's little Tony, a good friend of mine.
When I was about to give up, Tony came and saved the day.
Oh, if we tied this to the back of your boat, and you pull,
I could push my boat underneath it.
Watch your back, Pee Wee.
I have never worked like this for an alligator before.
Pull what you got, Tony
Go, go, go.
Let me put up a little bit.
No, no.
No.
What?
Keep going, Tony.
Keep going, let's bring them on top the stack.
Ho, ho, ho, right there.
Oh, right there.
Perfect, Tony.
We were able to get it in the boat, but not without trouble.
I like to kill Pee Wee in the front of the boat.
Poor Pee Wee.
She caught hell.
We got it done.
We got the job done.
Yeah.
We're having a major problem with our new pump
that we just put in.
It keeps getting clogged up.
And it's on an automatic switch.
So we can't shut it off when we need to.
It just keeps running.
And it's fixing to burn itself up.
So I'm the new bilge pump.
TROY LANDRY: Grab your pole, Pee Wee.
Got something on it.
Where is it going?
Oh, no, oh.
[music playing]
Saw a tail.
Nice.
Oh.
Yeah.
TROY LANDRY: We'll move the boat.
Come on.
Dude, you're going to let that alligator-- look what you did.
Ha, ha.
Ha, ha?
You think that's funny?
Bring that alligator. Pick him off.
I'm trying.
Show him who's the boss.
[bang]
Like, it drowned me just now.
TROY LANDRY: Oh, look at the boat, dude.
You think you're about to f-ing drown?
NARRATOR: Troy's boat is filling fast with gators and water.
I promise you, I'm about to lose it.
Getting closer and closer by the minute.
I'm starting to get pretty aggravated.
We're filling up the boat quicker than I expected.
And I can't pump the water out the boat.
We're taking on the water at every line.
And I'm standing ankle deep in water in my boat now.
Every time I lean on one side, the water
all rushes to that side.
And you got to be careful.
NARRATOR: Back at Duffy's, Troy and Pickle have
had their ups and downs today.
But that didn't prevent them from filling their boat
and staying on track to tag out tomorrow.
We had so many problems.
But all in all, it was an epic day.
The boat is loaded down with 40 or some more alligators.
And we had a blast.
I mean, we worked out our kinks.
We got our problems out of the way.
It was scary, but it was epic.
How about the pump?
What you going to do with that?
The bilge, your bilge.
Find me a sledgehammer.
Can I help?
The biggest one.
Bring the biggest one.
We smashing this thing.
And show me how strong you are.
That's a good pump.
That's about what it's worth.
I'm not bailing out the boat again.
So I'm breaking this thing, because at this point
I'm so angry at it.
And all the stresses throughout this day that we had
and all the problems that we had,
I just let out on this bilge pump.
And it was amazing.
Took out half my frustration on the bilge pump.
That was half of my frustration.
Now I need to take the other half out on you.
Lucky you went to pick up the hammer.
I got it.
You got it?
Gonna get it.