Sunrise in southern Louisiana.
With swampers facing a gator population crisis,
and these predators creeping closer to homes,
the first priority is patrolling the bayou.
It's barely 6:00 AM in Franklin.
Joey Edgar and his new deckhand, Zak, a skilled fisherman,
are first on the water, heading to a spot
that's been under attack.
Today we're hunting in an area--
it's a place-- it's kind of like a lake home.
People have lake homes.
Kids swim, play in the water.
And these alligators, if we don't back this population off,
they'll be in these people's yards.
Knocking on the back door.
The people in the local community
depend on me to kill these alligators.
Line's down, Zak.
Let's see what we've got going on right here.
I can't tell yet.
Look, Zak.
Look where the line was tied, and slipped it.
Dang, Joe.
He slipped the slip knot, he pulled so hard.
It was a giant that did it.
When an alligator can break a line,
it automatically puts him in a category
as a really smart monster.
For him to do that, he had to be heavy as a bulldozer.
We're gonna call this alligator Bulldozer.
Oh, Joe-- he's right here.
You see him?
He's all way up there.
Straight ahead.
That's Bulldozer.
That's gotta be Bulldozer.
Go straight, go straight, go straight.
Go straight.
Right here.
Right where that fish just flipped, he went down.
All right.
That's him.
OK, right here.
Right here.
Come on, man.
Come on. Come on.
Go ahead.
Come on.
Got him.
Come on, come on.
There you go.
Got him, baby.
There you go.
We got lucky. Stay on.
Stay on.
He might not be stuck very well.
There's the bubbles, though.
I got him, Pop.
He's pulling hard, though.
Joey throws a 2,000 pound test [inaudible] line to double
their grappling power.
We got him, bubba.
Stick him.
I got--
No, got him.
You got him.
Oh, we got--
Yeah.
He come off!
No!
Yeah, he come off.
He come off.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Whatever way you gotta go.
Still on.
There he is!
Oh, my god, he's a giant!
There he is!
On the surface!
Oh, he's running!
As long you still got him.
Yeah, we still got him.
I just gotta hook him.
Hold on.
Come on, Bulldozer.
He's starting to push towards the bank.
Yeah.
We gotta get him.
Tell me you got him.
I think you got him.
Get him!
Come on.
Where's he hooked?
Come on.
No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no!
Where's he hooked?
Oh, my god.
Dude.
I got him.
By the head.
I got him.
He's heavy, Bubba.
He's heavy.
Now you got him.
Dang, that's a monster.
Woo!
Oh-- You got him.
Oh my god, Joe.
Oh, my god.
He's bigger than we thought.
We got him, Joe.
Look, he's missing teeth.
He must've lost those teeth when he
was popping all the lines, Zak.
Look at the size of his teeth.
This alligator is dead, but it's still not over.
We still don't have him in the boat.
Oh, my god.
Pull!
- I'm not going anywhere. - Pull him.
I got him.
Pull him.
Come on.
You got it?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's not going anywhere.
I wouldn't let this gator go if my life depended on it.
Come on.
Oh!
Get in here.
Oh, my god!
The massive bulldozer weighs in at almost 600 pounds.
As hard as it is to bring this giant gator in the boat,
it is the most satisfying feeling I've
ever felt in my entire life.
[cheering]
Jeez.
This is Bulldozer.
This is a really big alligator.
This was a monster that could have eaten a kid, a man--
probably two men.
And it really feels good to get an alligator
like this out of the swamp.
This is why I had you come.
Population control is essential.
This is why I do what I do.
It don't come no better.
It's not I just like the challenge.
I like killing monsters.
Monsters.
Swamp monsters.
That's what it's all about, son.