ZAK: Look at the bite marks on this thing.
JOEY: Oh.
ZAK: Look at that thing.
There's a big gator out here chewing on them.
Look at that.
All the way down to the other side, Joe.
Look.
Look at the holes.
ZAK: Look at the holes.
There's a big one chewing on these guys.
NARRATOR: With the season half over,
Joey Edgar and his partner Zak are feeling
the pressure to fill tags, but their day
is off to an unusual start.
A territorial brute they call Big
Bully that's been chasing gators out of their hunting grounds.
I've seen this kind of thing from big alligators
before where they'll come in an area,
and bully other alligators around.
It can be a cannibal gator or big, big alligator
that's running the younger gators away.
ZAK: Oh my god.
JOEY: What?
ZAK: Did it break the branch?
JOEY: It broke the branch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It broke the branch, dude.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ZAK: It's got to be a big one, if it's still on.
JOEY: He might be wrapped up in it.
It might have not slipped.
JOEY: It's hung up?
ZAK: It's hung up.
JOEY: I'll get this out of the way.
The branch that it was hung off of
was probably eight inches in diameter.
Just to break that branch like it was broken,
it would take 400 or 500 pounds of weight to do that.
And when I seen that, I knew that the Bully was close.
Oh, I see bubbles.
ZAK: Where?
JOEY: I see bubbles right in the front of the boat.
ZAK: Oh, yeah, I see them.
JOEY: I don't know.
I don't want to-- oh.
ZAK: We're on top of him.
JOEY: He's right here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's right here.
NARRATOR: Joey ties the line to his boat
so he can pull the gator away from the trees.
ZAK: He's pulling the boat, look.
JOEY: Oh my god, that's that big one.
ZAK: He's pulling us out into the lake, Joe.
JOEY: It's that Bully.
ZAK: Come on.
JOEY: Watch yourself.
Oh my.
Oh.
He tried to bite me, Joe.
JOEY: Yeah, buddy.
Oh, I missed him.
I missed him.
ZAK: He pulled me back down.
I'm gonna get him back up for you again.
JOEY: Come up again.
Hell, yeah.
ZAK: We're not playing, Joe.
Almost lost him.
JOEY: The Bully is not bullying the block any more.
ZAK: Yeah.
JOEY: Look at the size of that thing, boy.
That's how you do it.
JOEY: Look how wide he is.
ZAK: Look at his jaws.
Oh my god.
That thing could eat me, Joe.
NARRATOR: With this brute in the boat,
Joey hopes his hunting grounds will be clear at last.
JOEY: Oh my god, Zach.
ZAK: Dude, that's a monster.
NARRATOR: One look at the colossus across the canal
and the hunters realize that gator must
be the real Big Bully, and he's much larger than the giant
they just caught.
This is like a bully taking your lunch money in the morning
and slapping you in the face.
So now I'm scattering lines out, I'm reaching
into these backwater areas.
We're gonna get this alligator.
Oh my god.
ZAK: Dude, look at his head.
Oh my god.
It's a monster right here, Bubba.
Joe.
JOEY: Oh my god.
JOEY: Hang on, Jack.
Hold on.
ZAK: This guy's strong, Pop.
JOEY: Hold on to him.
Give me a shot.
Dinosaur.
That's a good alligator.
ZAK: We're going to have to do this a different way.
JOEY: We're going to need the choke strap.
I don't even know if this choke strap
is going to fit the same way.
JOEY: All of those hours you spend at the gym,
we're fixing to find out who's who and what's what.
Joey, this is the biggest alligator I've ever seen.
JOEY: Yeah, this a big one, Bubba.
This is a man right here, Bubba.
This has to be The Bully.
Unless it's just a tree that decided to get up and walk.
This is the monster.
That back leg.
NARRATOR: At over 12 feet long, Joey's certain they
finally caught Big Bully.
JOEY: Just swing it over.
OK, we got him.
We got it.
That's him.
We finally got him.
He'd been pushing us around, making a fool of us,
but guess what?
We put him in a trick bag today, Bubba.
He was a bully, and we made him pay.