NARRATOR: It's morning in the swamps of southern Louisiana.
Deep in the canals of the GA Cut,
Jacob Landry is experiencing a slow start to his day.
JACOB LANDRY: We put lines out in the evening,
and we know there's big alligators here,
but it just doesn't seem like the gators
want to take the bait.
Tie it on the tree over there, brother.
To your right. There you go.
DON BREWER: On this?
NARRATOR: Plus Jacob's got a new deckhand this season--
Oklahoma native Don Brewer.
I don't think I'm exactly a greenhorn.
But when it comes to experience hunting gators, I got zero.
That's pretty much it.
And they make boots out of them.
NARRATOR: Anxious to contribute quickly,
Don's come up with an interesting strategy.
Whatcha doing with my marshmallows?
You ever been to a gator farm?
So you got dinner and dessert, in other words.
A who?
Look here.
You want to try it?
JACOB LANDRY: Nah, I'm good.
All right, let's try it.
Don is definitely convinced that using marshmallows
is gonna work.
Who knows?
You never know.
I'm-- I'm willing to try anything once.
Grab your gun.
Do you see him in that little pocket right there?
Straight ahead, right underneath that bird where I saw him.
[gunshot]
DON BREWER: Got him.
NARRATOR: Don scored a hit, but he and Jacob
need to race to snag the gator with the treble hook
before it gets away.
Snagged up?
We get all set up to where we can possibly
get a treble hook in him.
We got to treble hook stuck, and we couldn't get it out.
And unfortunately, it was the only
treble hook we had in the boat.
What you mean, go down there?
In the water?
You sure?
Big-ass gator somewhere right here.
Last thing I want to do is shoot something, hit
it, and wound it, and lose it.
That ain't the way I was brought up.
JACOB LANDRY: Got it?
All right.
After he gave me the hook, I could
tell he had a smile on his face, like someone else was there.
[inaudible]
God, give me that big sucker.
No frickin' way.
He's lucky that his bullet found the mark, because if Don would
have grabbed ahold of that alligator
while it's still alive, a gator that big would've won.
I promise you.
DON BREWER: That sucker's heavy.
That's what I'm talking about, baby.
[inaudible]
You know, I don't want to call Don crazy,
and I don't want to call him a genius.
I think he's a little a mixture of both.
But Don is a very experienced hunter,
so I'm very interested to see whether or not
this is gonna work.
Let's see if the old marshmallow produced.
DON BREWER: Oh, he's heavy.
Oh.
Woo.
Oh, this-- this one huge.
He's huge.
JACOB LANDRY: Whoa.
Come on, Big D.
[gunshot]
That's what I'm talking about.
That was a marshmallow.
That was a smorgasbord.
JACOB LANDRY: You know, I don't know
if it's just the marshmallows or just the added
part with the chicken, but I think I feel like putting
a couple of hooks with just marshmallows on it
and see if that'll help.
Oh, it's tight.
Pull him up real slow.
DON BREWER: Oh, [inaudible] here.
JACOB LANDRY: [inaudible] Get a swamp donkey.
[inaudible] gator. Hell yeah.
DON BREWER: Hell yes.
JACOB LANDRY: Oh, yeah.
DON BREWER: There it is.
JACOB LANDRY: Hang on, D. Hang on.
Give me that shot.
DON BREWER: 1, 2, 3.
JACOB LANDRY: From when I first started gator hunting, things
are pretty much the same, so I appreciate how Don's mind is
constantly working and thinking of ways, you know,
we can do things differently.
I've never ran alligator lines with marshmallows on them.
And I'll tell you what, I think it really helped out
catching big boy alligators.
All right, big D. I think we're gonna start buying marshmallows
instead of that old chicken.
DON BREWER: Them marshmallows are working.
Told you it would.