After 20 years of trying, a group of four fishermen finally caught a giant 13-foot, 680-pound alligator.
On September 28, Robert Hennis, his son Joel, Rev. John Benandini Jr., and Tommy Strawn pulled the large reptile from Turtle Bayou, near Anahuac in Chambers County, Texas, according to Bluebonnet News.
“We’ve been trying to get this gator for 20 years. Every year, a week before [hunting]season, we’ll see it, and then we won’t see it again until after the season is over. This time he bit the wrong hook,” Joel told the outlet.
A group of four Texas fishermen finally caught the elusive 13-foot, 680-pound alligator they had been trying to catch for 20 years. Facebook/Thomas Strawn
They use bayou mullet to catch the somehow elusive creature — the one in Robert’s backyard.
It took four 800-pound paracords to bring the gator up to the surface of the water.
The creature, trying to avoid its fate, broke two lines as it struggled to free itself.
The reptile, which was behind one of the fishermen’s houses, was caught using a crocodile harvest tag. Facebook/Thomas Strawn It took four 800-pound pieces of paracord to bring the gator up to the surface of the water. Facebook/Thomas Strawn
Much of the meat harvested from the gators, which is taken to Porter’s Processing, a wild game processing farm in Anahuac, is being donated to the local church.
Joel and his father took about 10 pounds of meat from the alligator’s jaws and had a full-body ride made from its carcass.
Alligator hunting season in Southeast Texas runs from September 10 to 30.
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