king of the swamp troy landry and his deckhand pickle are heading for a new hunting ground
all right jordan this is the area i got them new tags for this year
i only got enough tags to hunt in here for one day but i could hunt here for a month i promise you
this is a hat trick a little nursery kind of thing nobody's been hunting this for years
and i think this is where all the females we've been catching are coming from this area is a
breeding ground there's a lot of big females they know they're safe in there so stop and think one
mama alligator can lead 30 to 40 eggs one we sort of run with alligators the last couple of years
now we need a target female there's too many what we got i don't see the line you see it okay
what we got bring him up
oh lord
don't move
good job what i'm talking about get it one two three
she was mean huh that was an aggressive female not often you see him dead mean they mean back here
i really think it's because there are so many and they're hungry going in this area with all these
mature females on top of each other they're already aggressive and aggravated they're
used to fighting them big meals away from their little ones and the hunters no different they'll
fight a hunter or whatever just to protect them little ones we're gonna have to be really careful
oh look what's not up there on the bank that's in this that looks like a nasa yeah i adore you
uh-huh go up go over there go hit the bank let me see if i can find them
i'm gonna just jump right in mama's there don't be careful i'm gonna just jump out
real quick and uh go see if i can grab the baby careful the mama's close all 0:02:34.560,1193:02:47.295 right not
little babies look available them all huh
oh yeah one day they're gonna grow up to be some big 10 and 12 maybe 13 footers
let's get out of here before the mama comes and mama's gonna come over here and scoop you up
oh looks like we got something here
i don't see not looks loose huh
that's a decent one bring them up
whoa watch him yeah he's fighting
give it a shot
give me a shot
like that good shot yo
looks like i hurt my hand
it will hurt you in the past the big alligators was always the most aggressive one but now the
little ones are just as aggressive as the big ones because they're hungry
that was a mean alligator yeah she was mean even though they're not as big they can be
just as aggressive sometimes i think they're more aggressive than the baby i think they're a little
meaner than the males and that you know i think you're right that goes for everything you know not
just alligators yeah i really believe that part i just all again yeah it ain't just alligators i
thought we would have done filled out ties by now but the more female the smarter than you think you
know they're kind of like a barracuda or a piranha they eat the chicken off the hook and leave it
there leave the hook they're very smart oh what we got here we got jumped in girl i said okay
oh hung up oh no we ain't hung up
do we got jump we got something on here might have a big one
under the boat yeah damn big one dude i'll tell you
you see it it wants to get under the door
watch your hand all right bring them up
watch it watch it watch it
now the phone begins ah
you and your big ideas you want to catch a big one get the big one i was happy catching the
little one you ready ready one two three okay you ready on three one two three okay that's a
pretty one that's a big alligator this giant 450 pound breeding female is the biggest of the day
but they have a way to go if they hope to fill their quota before the day is done
your partner's old and chill it's all right as long as we get the job done
yeah i'm wow man i didn't know them females fight hard i'm gonna be sore today i'd get
home they got me woe out we got to put one more alligator in a boat and at this point we tired
and we exhausted with all of these females running around i just don't want to overstay
how welcome i'm ready to get out look like we got one oh yeah that's a good one
looks like a nice one he's a big one
that's a big old boy he's heavy
get ready get ready get ready i wouldn't like to pull you over huh
i don't know where we're gonna put it i don't know let's put this gun down first
okay hurry down and grab that little leg
got him thank you
on three ready one one two three
this massive 550 pound behemoth is not a breeding female but a prized catch nonetheless it leaves
troy feeling a sense of accomplishment after a long exhausting day in this fertile hunting area
we did good here we filled all our tags and uh i'm glad we came it was a success
and most important we took a lot of females out of this area which is gonna help well we did good
i'm just hoping we can come back here next year it's a tip off the iceberg yeah that's it
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