I'll just teach me way I was told fine I
would get up yeah that is a friend Cody
Cody 21 days into the 30-day alligator
season and the long days are beginning
to take their toll on hunters outside
Bayou sorrel veteran Gator hunter Willie
Edwards and his son little Willie are a
few days away from tagging out and will
is impressed with their deckhands
progress since opening day well he's
doing pretty good I mean I had a few
little kinks when we first started and
everything but looked like he learned
pretty good so today we're going out
here and I'll start letting him do it
all myself see if he can handle it
because he needs to learn yourself too
cuz I mean going coming up to be
alligator on it let him take it over
today little Willie will lead the team
eager to prove he's got what it takes to
be an alligator hunter willing to
challenge his son skills Willy heads to
a legendary deepwater honey hole called
the pit when the levee system was first
built in the 1930s huge pits were dug
for building materials creating the
perfect habitat for giant alligators the
big bulls they like that pit cause its
teeth and but the big was like to get in
that thing and hide and they'll get down
in that 40 foot of water in there they
got all kind of roots and stuff in there
and banks and shells and stuff and they
get underneath them roots and everything
and get down in there and you can't get
no trouble at all you know he's safe
oh yeah right yeah big old thing
that is a broom go it throw it throw it
pull it back pull it back pull back
hurry up you know Cody holding holding
tight oh right yeah
i gator yeah
holy holy holy tape
Oh watch fake watch me the rogue don't
let it go how do you get your hand
wrapped up knit row oh don't let him go
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every song ready let's go
treble hook in this 11-foot Goliath is a
great start to little Willy's day as he
continues his swamp education we got a
monster okay Willy's happy with little
Willy's work with the treble hook but
he's not convinced that his son is ready
for the next big challenge now my son he
decide he won't suit begun and I don't
know if you ready for that yet I mean
that's my job a gun is a dangerous thing
and I mean stuff can go wrong right
quick over gun but he's still gonna have
to learn and I'll just teach the way I
was taught I hope he takes him keeping
in the back his head and really look at
that thing on the bank of there boy
oh that's a big one yeah that is a big
we're gonna have to shoot that over here
will that thing will come off the bank
find out we'll get up yeah yeah that's a
fine alig if we can see him over here
right over here and I'm gonna let you
shoot that time look like I'm gonna
finally get to her hand her a gun and
everything one time on an alligator and
uh normally as a deckhand you don't get
the handler the gun feel pretty good
about that you got to go right down you
kneel down with your knees right there
take your time
it's time to wash the boat Hydrox and
when it comes back down as the boat
rocks back down you pull the trigger
soon as this goes down and touches the
bottom catching right over the top of
that jaw bone catching right back at it
Nick
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howdy boy you got it oh yeah
gotta be careful when we go up this hill
nope I ain't dead because I said I'm
teeing up a long shot and these nine
times any angle be dead you gotta take
this pill some go up that hill and shoot
him again does that thing will come down
there and he'll grab you I mean big
enough to break your home yeah when I'm
getting out the boat going up to
alligators it's dangerous
you walk it up to the alligator y'all
know if the Rope got getting this and
gravy on that leg and he's thanking you
he gonna do what he got to do to you
yeah I sent him on the bank and
everything is just getting me I mean all
nervous and everything I mean you never
know what a thing would do he can look
like he did up at here and everything
but when you take a notion to come down
there they ain't gonna stop
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right yeah
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I did watch that gun hand sign
you got him Joe no you got to go around
the tree watch your hands right there
took a few shots but I was a big Gator
you can't complain about that I mean
that is that is all get your tail in the
boat boy you made the shot him you put a
hurting on we catch us a monster at this
moment I think I've been doing pretty
good in everything I'm learning day by
day and it's starting to pay off
we're catching pretty good Gators we
filling tags that's all that matters
but the professor has one more test for
his student mimicking the sound of a
baby Gator
Willy hopes to lure out a bull for a
little Willy to snipe on open water
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we got a dinosaur huh
way up there by the bank yeah getting
Willy
good shot on you we got to go catch a
monster let's go I'm taking a big chance
here shooting this alligator in open
water and just harder current it's gonna
be a good lesson I mean if we lose
him he knows not to do that mistake
there's just so deeper water to kind of
take them right on down around so
they'll hook off the bottle
I think that was him let you get open to
go down there giddy
we got a ruin my boat for sure in a
small i mean you shoot something you go
get you're gonna get over bullet you're
touching me he will bite you sometimes
you got to do what you got to do I mean
you might not want to get overboard but
you shoot something you got to go get it
because we don't like the waist nut
straight drop off when he gets out there
I mean about what a decadent boat that
goes down on a pretty fall asleep I'm
watching my kid here my son he'd go out
in the water with retrieving alligator
and me I know he made a good kill shot
on alligator but you never know when
that thing's alive I mean he's in the
water you own his turf you own his
territory and he can do what he want
with you once you get up there chest
deeper water
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he's oh now he's a little fall down
you read their dig around
should be getting close to him right
there somewhere what you hate hey watch
your hand really be careful he's right
there how the bubbles coming up right
here dig around mobile neat him around
he's right death can't be wasting an
alligator you shotty you got a giddy
you know that right
yeah
come over here with you
you win good now you do it that was a
deal buddy like a chunk eyeball out this
is okay all right
his own yeah it turns out we got him in
a boat and everything and you just gotta
watch what you're doing you got to be
careful but uh feel proud of myself and
everything
Hey you win Gotti he wasted he feels a
take it might be a little wet that's
true alligator huh
yeah I'm tickled he found alligator
that's another tag field I mean you got
to be experienced alligator hunter to
kiss that alligator like that he's
learning pretty quick quicker than what
I thought he's gonna learn and I'm proud
of him and I love you destiny yeah I do
think he does got what it takes to be
elegant you that's what it's all about
feeling tagged and getting her done I'm
ready to go home
you