[music playing]
RONNIE ADAMS: Good morning on the bayou!
NARRATOR: Longtime swamper Ronnie Adams
and his new partner, Ashley "Dead Eye" Jones,
are on their own mission--
taking out the predators threatening
Lake Verret, a popular summer community
for families with small kids.
Being an alligator hunter, you've
got to help your community out.
How y'all doin', buddy?
Nice to see y'all.
This year was kind of overwhelming compared to years
of the past because of the gators just
getting so thick that people are just literally getting scared,
and I understand that.
So we need to get them knocked down,
because if a gator gets hungry enough, he will eat anything.
You got some big ones in the area?
RONNIE ADAMS: 12 foot, you say?
Yeah, I'm sure.
Well, she's begging us to kill this gator for her.
Being a mom, I would hate to see any families devastated by
something that we can prevent.
I'm hoping that we can help her make sure that she's
safe out there swimming, doing whatever it
is that they want to be doing.
We want to keep this dinosaur out of the area.
We're going to stay on him, ma'am,
and we're going to fish him out of here for you.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Have a good day.
Yeah, thank you.
RONNIE ADAMS: This lady's got family members,
so she was really worried about this big huge gator.
If a gator's hungry and you start splashing in the water,
he's coming, and it's dinnertime.
Yeah, we want to get this dinosaur out of the area.
NARRATOR: A beast that size could
be 60 years old, so the duo calls it The Dinosaur.
You talk about a 12-foot alligator,
that's double my height.
It's an absolute monster.
It's a danger for everybody.
RONNIE ADAMS: Oh, I think this line's down, Che.
Oh, my goodness.
Come on, baby.
You got him?
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
He's a big one, too, girl.
We just seen him pop up here.
We hope this is the big dinosaur.
Whoa, boy, we got a monster here!
This is a nice one here, baby.
OK, OK.
All right.
Come on.
Go get it, girl.
This is the big one!
Come on, girl. Come on, girl.
Shoot him!
ASHLEY JONES: Get him out over here, Ronnie.
Oh, now.
ASHLEY JONES: Hold on to him, Ronnie.
Don't let him go.
I'm ready.
RONNIE ADAMS: Oh, my god.
Baby, we got a dinosaur, you hear me?
You hear me girl?
Look at this doll.
God.
Yeah.
Look at this.
One three, huh, Che?
ASHLEY JONES: It popped!
This has been the biggest gator that we've gotten.
About 12 feet.
It's an absolute monster.
It's a dinosaur.
He was barely hooked, and he could've got away easily.
Golly.
Hold on.
You got him?
Pull him over.
Wait up, wait up, wait up.
Wait, I'm gonna get here.
All right.
There we go.
ASHLEY JONES: Getting his head anchored down in there
and pulling his arms in there is hard to do.
Keep your weight on him.
ASHLEY JONES: You know, you're literally
putting all your body weight onto him to hold
his head from backing out.
It just takes a lot out of you.
All right.
Slowly but surely.
Put that weight on him.
There we go.
This dude's 12 foot all day.
Baby, give me some of that love, girl.
We got us a monster here, babe.
Finally, we got the dinosaur!
We'll let the lady know what we got.
ASHLEY JONES: OK.
Miss Tracey!
We got the big 12-footer.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
Right there on that line by your camp.
Right.
They're not scared of anything.
Definitely, definitely.
OK, well thank y'all so much.
ASHLEY JONES: Thank you.
Thank you so much, ma'am.
Y'all be safe.
Yes, ma'am.
ASHLEY JONES: Yeah, thank you.
RONNIE ADAMS: I'll tell you, when
we caught that big 12-footer and got the privilege to say,
hey Miss Tracey, we got this big boy out of the water--
just a relief on her face when she saw the gator in the boat
makes you feel good inside.
I mean, you're not a human if you don't feel good for helping
somebody out like that.