[music playing]
NARRATOR: It's 6:45 AM, and king of the swamp, Troy Landry,
and his partner, Terral Evans, are first on the water.
TROY: Whoa.
Whoa.
NARRATOR: Troy spots something troubling.
That's not my line.
You know, the job we do on the water every day is a hard job.
It's hard by itself.
And then everything that can be thrown against you in them 30
days is thrown against you, from your equipment,
from mother nature, from all the other hunters.
When somebody comes and puts a line in my area, area that I'm
supposed to be fishing, I'll never steal his line or nothing
like that, but I will do something to let him know
that he's in the wrong place.
NARRATOR: Each gator tag corresponds
to a specific designated area in the swamp,
and only the hunter assigned to those tags
is legally allowed to fish that location.
TERRAL: We'll find a line hung up in a tree,
some lines cut, you know, Troy was getting mad about it.
I'm getting mad myself.
Don't make me waste my time hanging a line up there
and you gonna cut it.
It upset me too.
Yep.
I don't know, maybe we ought to just hang around and see.
Let's go further down the lake, and we're going to check
a couple of lines then hide.
We want to tuck in along the lake and see what happens.
TERRAL: Yeah.
So we're going to hang out, Terral and I, we're
going to come back and hide this evening right at dark,
and we'll stay there till 9:00, 10
o'clock tonight if we have to.
I want to get to the bottom of this.
I want to find out what's going on.
NARRATOR: As the sun sets on Lake Verret,
Troy and Terral hatch a plan to catch their poacher.
I tell you what, it's getting dark.
Let's hide for a little while.
Yeah, let's duck in that hole back here, bro.
That's a boat.
He's slowing down.
He's going right to that line.
Let's roll on him.
Hey, what the hell?
This guy I've been knowing all my life, been hunting alligator
as long as me, if not longer, but I think that's the problem.
He's getting old and he been hunting so long,
he's kind of getting a little forgetful,
so I'm not going to argue with him.
I got way too much respect for him.
Terral and I just gonna pick up these lines,
and move to another area.
It's time for us to move anyhow.
You got to be nice to the people that's older than you,
especially some of the old timers like that.
It's hard enough to make a living out here.
You don't need somebody fussing you
and chewing your butt out because you're confused
on your property lines.
It's lucky it was him, because I was mad.
TERRAL: I didn't know how it was gonna go down, man.
Yeah, I didn't want to saying nothing
about him cutting that line.
You know, if it had helped him out a little bit.
You know, growing up in the little community I grew up in,
we're surrounded by very good people.
J-Boy is one of the few old timers
we have left in this area, and this man
grew up with nothing at all.
You know, so I'm more than happy to help him.
You always gotta look out for a lot of the others in this area.
T, I think we scared the crap out of him.
TERRAL: Oh, look, hey, he looked--
His eyes we're--
TERRAL: He looked a little spooked, bro.
His eyes-- [laughs] Oh, [bleep]..
TROY: That didn't end the way I thought it was going to end.
TERRAL: No.
TROY: All right, let's roll.
You ready?
TERRAL: Rock.