but until then it is hot hot out there in southern louisiana this heat wave just will
not die as record temperatures are expected and humidity levels will be through the roof today
my recommendation stay indoors and keep that ac running everyone be careful out there
as temperatures reach dangerous levels in bayou sorrel the edwards clan prepares to launch and
willie's plan for the day is to leapfrog lines with his dad junior edwards who will have little
willy in his boat to help with the extreme heat got a lot of freaking hooks around two be a long
frigging day yeah leaf frogging is when one person runs the first line and the next the other person
the other boat goes to the next line and you just keep hopping back and forth like that all day long
and everything and between me and my dad we got right at most probably close to 70 hooks 80 hooks
and you got to be back at a certain time because you don't want your elegance to ride out then heat
start with some weight on this come on boy i got a big one right here yeah big
ears
this nice
yeah it's the fun part well i'm sure missing my son right now you
don't realize how much help a helper is until you get to stuff like this
yeah this thing right here about 350 pound dead weight it gets pretty rough
when i'm fighting alligators by myself when i'm fishing on my own it can be very dangerous i mean
you can pull muscles in your back trying to pick up on anything by yourself it could fall on you
and hurt you i mean break your leg or something like that yeah it's a hot day 45 miles northwest
in bayou sorrel little willy and his grandfather junior are leapfrogging areas with willie
they're hoping to get their lines run faster in this brutal heat
they're hot already it's so hot but you don't even want to be outside and them
alligators that's what that's when they move it gets cold elegant it's going in the ground
and we got to hunt them hottest part of the year and everything and it's just the heat's unbearable
it's stretched all up in there it's all up in the bushes he's out of that wrapped up if he did
pull the rope to you pull your rope it's up behind her i'll get him out in the bar
i'll get him off there pull him out pull him out of there
pull it i'm pulling on that oh it's all wrapped up just pulling keep on
hold that rule
hold him out of there tell you what i'm starting to feel bad it's going to feel bad
all right i don't feel good at all getting overheated
oh no look don't try to put that boat what are you doing about to put him over in the boat no you're
not watch out you got to get straight before you do that catch that winch boat winch thing
the way it takes a little bit longer to get lined up to get him in the boat
but you gotta break your back and strain and all that let him lean out a little bit
where he won't catch the side of the boat pull him over or win the boat as you come
oh catch him by the head pull his head over the boat pull his head over in here
nauseated sick of my stomach really don't want to be out here
with little willy showing signs of heat exhaustion so quickly
junior calls willie back to help diagnose the situation
feel bad too hot can't take that heat out here and just heating everything you feeling bad already
this morning get in this boat we're gonna take you on to the doctor see what's going on with you
i mean that's my son and when i pulled up there and seen he was like that i decided to throw in
the towel i mean it was just way too much i mean i don't want nothing happen to my son out here
and it's not gonna nothing gonna happen to him i'll take him in before anything happens take
him in and find out what's wrong with him i'll be back let me know little willy's day is over
but now junior has a tall task ahead check all his lines alone during the hottest part of the day
hope little willie's all right but i got to get the rest these lines run
can't leave these alligators online for two or three days they'll die on you a little willy kind
of got overheated there he was hurting pretty bad and he was sticking his stomachs over here he had
to go in and go go back to the doctor and find out what was wrong i wasn't expecting to be out
there today running hooks by myself but uh hey things happen you got to do what you got to do
oh get over here hey oh that song
hey
i ain't as strong as they used to be but it all work out in the wash
well with a deckhand you got help to get big ones in the boat when you ain't got a deckhand you can
get them in the boat but it's rough on you now i'm getting kind of old and i just don't want to feel
like pulling on that stuff tomorrow my back hurts me every time i get out of bed in the morning
so damn hot no help and that's what you got to do 52 miles north in bayou sorrel
willie returned to the water hours ago after taking his son to the hospital with heat
exhaustion and now he continues to divide and conquer with his father junior high day
but job's got to be done jobs got to be done south louisiana i mean the heat is
doing alligator season is unreal you can have a heat stroke right quick out here and it's tough
work and you got to keep going and just keep your head in the game and just keep growing
if you slow down any any little bit of thing you could take a chance at losing all your alligators
had a big one on the bank
oh he's alive
he's a good good ten and a half foot right at 11 foot
well he can break that road got to get up here on the bank and uh shoot this thing
where i could get him back oh boy cause he's around all kind of trees big old gear
i can't get a good shot
this 500 pound beast is a good kill but getting it back to the boat alone is a challenging chore
now comes the job of missing my son boy boy every hook and now's the job i much prefer hunting with
my son i mean i do miss a little bit of hunting on my own but it's a lot easier and a lot better
hunting with a helper on the boat it takes a lot off your back working this hard and
straining on them alligators like that i mean something bad can happen right quick
this thing is heavy i mean you're talking 500 600 pound animal
as willie loads his last gator of the day junior approaches to tally up the team's numbers
got him done yeah i'm done yeah i've just brought the last one right down there
huh i just run the last one right down there what do you look like i got about seven eight
ten something like that down ten got them down in there had to rush they're doing them had to
rush him in you heard nothing yet i ain't heard nothing yet before they find out let me go to
the house and see what's going on i had a heat stroke or something got hot too hot i hope not
i have one that means you get over that but uh we're gonna get these things on to the house and
get them out this heat call me when y'all find out
you