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Tensas, Louisiana | You can get 5 permits if you have enough acres of wetlands. The season is September which interferes with harvest for us. It is a lot of work and a real nasty job that usually creates morning headaches. Some of us used to do it when we were in our late teens and early twenties. Back then the buyers paid about $50 to $60 per foot cash so you could count on a couple grand cash for your effort. Now the prices are much lower (commercial farms) and would hardly pay the beer and gas bill. To your other question, they generally avoid people and will maybe hiss and snap their teeth at you but back away. Don't back one into a corner, though. Don't feed them or they will associate you with food. Generally everyone knows not to enter the water in areas where they are plentiful. Enough red bugs and moccasins out there without the gators anyway. Game and Fish will remove a nuisance gator. Also, most people here know the 3 s's if one is in your yard. Shoot. Shovel. Shut up. Meat is halfway between catfish and chicken. I don't care for it. Some love it. Every time I have been scared by one was when we were doing something dumb. For example, shot one but only knocked him out. He woke up as we were loading him into truck. While frogging a former friend gigged a 2 and a half foot one and casually tossed it in my lap. We sank the boat in the middle of several larger gators. My dad and a friend once killed an 8 foot gator with only a fire extinguisher and a hatchet. I would think about coming out of retirement for this one though. I don't know how close he is to record but he would be by far the largest caught by anyone I know. I wouldn't sell him to a buyer though. I would have him stuffed and take him to Cabela's in Gonzales or Bass Pro in Shreveport and see what they would give me to display him in their game room. I know they pay big money for record size deer, elk, etc.
Edited by cottonholio 5/22/2013 17:25
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Very large gator on our farm
