As gator season enters the home stretch...
-Oh! -Get him!
The monsters flex their muscles...
-[gunshot] -Aah!
Gotta be a giant, man.
Thing took that and popped that like it ain't nothing.
While the hunters fight tooth and nail...
Anna, hold on to him!
That's a big one. Watch out.
Oh! Get him, Daddy!
[bleep]! The tail.
To capture every last beast...
Holy crap.
It's bent and broken.
And take control of the bayou.
He's barely hooked!
Whoa!
Shoot him! Oh, no!
[gunshots]
On Lake Verret,
late into the gator season,
the Landrys still have close to 150 tags
from the 900 they started with.
Needing to fill their remaining ones with monsters,
King of the Swamp Troy Landry and his deckhand Pickle Wheat
return to a tried-and-true honey hole.
All right.
-Got us loaded up, little P? -Yeah.
There are monsters in this area, and I know it.
That'd be nice, huh?
Big old fat one.
I got a lot of tags for Lake Verret.
I hunt about 80% of the lake.
Certain places you catch big alligators,
certain places you catch little alligators,
but you learn as you go what to look for.
And on Lake Verret we target just the big alligators.
Oh, what we got, Peewee? What we got?
Look at that boscoyo all tore up.
See it?
It's all messed up.
-Looks like a crime scene. -Look at it.
Look at that boscoyo all tore up like that.
Oh, yeah.
We got a crime committed for sure.
Looks like a crime scene, Peewee.
Come on, come on, come on... right there, get it, get it...
Ooh, you're lucky to save that one.
Lucky it didn't pull the hook out.
Is he just wrapped up right here?
-He still on there? -I don't know.
It's kind of tight.
-Huh? -It's tight right here.
He still on there?
-Aw. -Aw.
He got off. Straightened hook.
That's not an alligator hook.
That's a #3 shark hook.
That's about five times stronger than an alligator hook.
That's a big alligator to do that.
You gotta understand, we fish with shark hooks, like,
that they catch Jaws with, okay?
And this alligator straightened out a shark hook.
And so he had to be doing
some major Megalodon power moves down there.
So of course I'm naming this alligator Jaws
for exactly what he did to this hook.
Listen, some you win, some you lose,
but he ain't won yet, okay?
He won this time, but it's not over with yet.
By the end of the day, we gonna win.
He won the battle, not the war.
In Bayou Sorrel,
Willie Edwards and his son Little Willie
have been hit hard by the low water
and are seriously behind on filling tags.
With their season on the line,
they're heading to the shell fields,
an always reliable deepwater honey hole.
I've never ever not filled all my tags during the season.
I mean, you ain't got but so any days left
that they gonna buy.
So I was going out there with big hopes,
catch the biggest gators they got
and fill 'em all on big tags.
Let's go on to the back, back there.
I'm on my game this morning.
Armed with their treble hooks,
they've set a quota to catch 25 gators today
to get their season back on track.
[gator call]
Right in front of us over there.
There.
[gunshot]
That's an alligator.
Willie's filled his first tag of the day,
but with 24 gators still to go...
he's enlisted his youngest son Landon
to help carry the load
so he and Little Willie can keep hunting.
I mean, it's gonna be a lot of big ones get killed.
We'll take 'em, just load 'em over in that boat,
and once we get that boat loaded,
then we'll load a couple in my boat that I'm riding in.
We can get in a lot faster, and I can catch a lot more.
Yeah!
In Bayou L'Orange,
with his boat repaired
and just one more day of his season left,
veteran swamper Bruce Mitchell is racing against time
to fill his ten remaining Landry tags by sundown
before he needs to return to his grandkids.
This is it. This is the last day.
I got to head home tonight.
I got family obligations I got to go do.
I just got to do it. There's no way around it.
Oh, maybe a gator. I don't know.
Oh.
What do we got here?
Oh.
Oh!
Oh, yeah.
Ooh, there he is.
[gunshot]
Whew!
Get my tape.
This seven-footer is nothing to write home about,
but it moves Bruce closer
to filling all the tags Troy entrusted him with.
I'm off to a good start right now.
I'm pretty sure every ten you get off of Troy
is a load off of his mind.
That's ten tags less he's got to worry about.
So every ten tags helps.
I just hope I can help him a little more today.
Well, I know it took a lot of pressure off of Troy this year.
Over in Sanders Slough, ahead on their tag count,
swampers Leron Jones and Anthony "Porkchop" Williams
are going after a beast that's been giving them trouble.
-Cousin. -What up, cuz?
The main problem we have in our honey hole
is we have a big old alligator.
We give him the name Whiskers because he's old.
You know what I'm saying? And he eating all our catfish.
Oh, yeah.
Me and Porkchop love fishing more than anything.
That's how me and Porkchop became real close.
When me and him started fishing for the last 25 years,
we got like this,
and now it's hard to pull us apart.
And to go over there and not catch a bite
off them juglines that we setting out, it's heartbreaking.
You know Whiskers love them catfish.
Yesterday, Leron and Porkchop hung lines
baited with Whiskers' favorite food:
Louisiana blue catfish.
Look good, cousin. Look good to me.
Oh!
Hey, boy.
Boy, let's hope that's Whiskers.
Boy, look like he could be Whiskers, cousin.
Oh yeah, cousin.
I got him now.
Whoa! Oh!
Don't let him pull you in there, cousin.
-Aah! -Come on, man.
Give me that shot, Porkchop!
Cuz, you gotta take that shot, cuz.
Cuz, I don't wanna lose him, cuz.
Oh, he's tryin' to pop the line, cousin.
Yeah, I know. Watch him now, he in that mud.
-I know. -Come on, man.
Come on. You gotta get him, cuz.
-Give me a shot, Porkchop. -You gotta get him--
-You gotta get him now! -Come on, cuz.
-Shoot him. Shoot him! -Got you, man.
[gunshot]
-Whoo! -Cuz, good job.
Good job, cuz!
All right, cousin, we gotta get him in back.
Slide him in the back, slide him back there somewhere.
Slide him back just a little bit.
Catching a nine-and-a-half footer
allows them to stay on pace filling tags
while they look for their catfish-loving nemesis.
I could tell from when Porkchop was pulling on it,
I knew it wasn't Whiskers.
So I know the problem is still there,
but it was a gator in the boat off the catfish.
That was a good sign that they eating it,
but we're still chasing Whiskers.
Yeah.
Just outside of Calumet,
armed with insider information,
Ashley "Deadeye" Jones and her deckhand Anna Ribbeck
set out to catch their biggest gator of the season.
So, this is where we are right here.
And then there's a deep pocket right in there.
That's where the big ones hang out?
Mm-hmm. Right at those four points.
Okay.
Yeah, I've learned a lot
from hanging out with them old timers.
All season long, Ashley's been collecting valuable intel
from local alligator hunters.
You saw him between here and there?
Yeah, you just gotta go a little bit further than that.
There's another oxbow.
He was in between the entrance and the exit
of that oxbow right here.
If you go a little farther north along the banks
where the water's a bit deeper right there.
I've been talking to these old timers,
and they just can't help themselves.
They have to brag about the biggest gators
and that they know where to find 'em,
and if you're just at the right place at the right time,
you'll be able to take in all that information.
Today, they're running with a tantalizing tip
about a massive dinosaur
from none other than the King of the Swamp himself,
who doesn't hold tags for the area this year.
Come around that point. There's a point there.
Come around that point, it gets shallow right here,
but then it gets deep-deep.
Go up to that canal, pass the horseshoe, and stop there.
Okay. If that gator's out there
where Mr. Troy was talking about,
we've got that whole area covered.
Oh, that's a nice gator.
There's another gator swimming across.
That's a huge gator.
Inch us up there.
This has gotta be that big one, Anna.
His head is as big as a freaking log, Ash.
That's gotta be a 12-foot gator.
I'm about to shoot.
[gunshot]
Aim low.
He's still right in front of you, Ash.
His head's still above the water.
[gunshot]
Too low.
He just went under.
Dang it, there he goes.
Missing this behemoth
might have cost them their season's biggest gator,
but Ashley's not giving up.
This would definitely be
the biggest gator that we've ever caught.
And missing a shot like that does not feel good.
If we pull into Duffy's with that gator,
they won't know what hit 'em.
I've spent a lot of time and done a lot of work,
and I'm just gonna do whatever it takes.
I'm not going home without a big gator.
Armed with clear evidence
of monster gator activity in the area,
the hunters decide to add lines.
I'm gonna use two chickens for this line.
Double the bait equals double the gator.
So we gonna catch a biggun with this one.
Twenty miles east on Lake Verret,
as they rush to fill tags,
Troy and Pickle are on the lookout
for a hook-bending monster they've named Jaws.
We using #3 shark hooks,
and it takes a hell of an alligator
to straighten one of these things out.
We have maybe one or two a year that get straightened out,
and normally they get away, we don't catch 'em.
So when you got the opportunity to catch, you better catch.
Up-- watch the buoy. What are you doing?
-Ain't no baby. -Dude, what?
Good Lord.
Oh, I'm nervous. I'll sit down.
Yeah, sit down and be quiet a little while.
I see a little wave action underneath there.
We got one of your crime scenes over here.
What you got? Got something? Talk to me.
Got something on here. Oh, Lord, Troy Landry.
Talk to me.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
-We got something? -Yeah.
-Huh? -Yup, yup, yup.
-Good. -He's a good one.
Good, Peewee.
Oh!
Whoo!
Aah!
[gunshot]
Whoo!
Good job.
-One, two, three. -Oh, I ain't had nothing.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
Good alligator.
-That's not him. -Good alligator.
This eight-footer fills another tag,
but it's nowhere near big enough to be Jaws.
I thought I had Jaws in the boat,
and that's a big alligator.
But apparently Jaws is still swimming around
out here somewhere, so we're gonna have to come up
with a game plan on how to catch this sucker.
We need a new plan.
Over in the shell fields,
Willie and Little Willie set a 25 gator quota
to get their season back on track,
but the morning has been very slow
with only two beasts caught so far.
Yeah, it's frustrating.
You got all these tags to fill and everything,
you gotta catch all these alligators.
You feel the pressure
because you know if you don't fill these tags,
the landowner's taking them tags
and you might not get them tags next year.
Coming off that point.
Ooh, that's a big one! Oh!
Watch him, he wanna fight.
Ow! Ooh!
Hold him, hold him. Don't let him have slack.
That thing got some power.
Oh!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh.
Good Lord.
That thing's spunky.
Coming up, coming up.
-Ready? -Yep.
The Edwards men haul their third capture,
a solid nine-footer, into Landon's boat.
Willie hopes they'll get the 25 gators they need,
and that bringing a second boat will prove to be a smart move.
When you the captain of the ship,
and when you got a responsibility
of filling these tags
and you ain't got but 30 days of a season,
it's a little stressful.
But you don't let it get the best of you.
You just keep your head in the game
and just keep on going.
And I don't wanna turn in no tags.
I ain't turned in none yet, and I ain't about to start.
Back in Bayou L'Orange, Bruce is almost halfway
to filling his last ten Landry tags,
and the veteran hunter's even putting in a little extra work
in the hopes of celebrating mission complete
with his fellow hunters.
All right, I got an idea.
I got these old jugs I've been saving the last couple days.
I'm gonna try to catch some catfish while I'm out here.
To lure large catfish,
Bruce is baiting an improvised jugline
with a piece of bloody cow spleen.
We run back through here this evening,
I hope I got some fish on 'em.
Then I'll have me a fish fry.
With his trap set,
Bruce continues filling his final tags
to help the Landrys get to 900 for the season.
This is it. This is the last day.
I got to head home tonight.
I know I'm helping over here.
I don't know if they could've finished these tags without me.
I know this is a couple hundred tags that's off their mind,
and I only need six more gators.
Oh, I see a gator tail.
I don't know how big he is. I see part of the tail.
I got him. I got him today.
Oh!
Calm down, boy.
[gunshot]
That got him.
Whoo!
Ooh, come on up here.
Nice gator.
I mean, it's easy to catch gators
on the first of the season.
When you get toward the end of the season,
things change.
You're tired, you're wore out.
But, hey, I mean, all I wanna do
is catch as many gators as I can before I head home.
Won't be long, I'll be rocking the grandbaby.
Back in Sanders Slough,
Leron and Porkchop are still on the hunt for a massive gator
that's been wiping out their favorite catfish honey hole.
Oh, yeah.
We gonna get him out here, cousin.
Whiskers, I mean, he's massive,
and catfish must be his favorite fish.
And he eating all the big catfish out of there,
and that don't set well on our spirits.
Look at that, cuz.
Line down, cuz.
That's a good sign.
What you got, cousin?
Hold on, cuz, I gotta grab it first.
Let's see what we got, cousin, let's see what we got.
I don't know, cousin.
-Nothing, bro. -Oh, man.
Cuz, look, boy. Look at this.
Man.
Cuz, yeah.
That was Whiskers, cuz, definitely.
Definitely.
No hunter wants to lose a big gator,
but the near-miss has Porkchop feeling confident
their catfish bait will work.
Just give it some time, man.
It gonna work because he eating all the catfish.
So I know he want some of that catfish,
he gonna over there trying to see what's going on
and we gonna get him, though.
Oh, yeah.
He gonna hit it, cuz. We gonna get him.
Oh, yeah, get on out of here, cuz.
Back outside Calumet,
determined to catch their biggest gator of the season,
Ashley and Anna are stalking the monster
that escaped Ashley's rifle earlier.
Watch him pop his head up now that he thinks I passed by.
I've set all my lines based on all these places and locations
that the guys have been bragging on.
My goal today is to use all of this information
to catch us the biggest gator of the season.
Oh, look, line's down and straight out.
-It's pulling hard. -Good sign.
All right, Anna, you show him who's boss.
Going straight out.
Whoo.
Got away from me.
Oh, he's pulling hard.
It's like tug of war.
Where is he?
Whoa!
Anna, hold him.
Hold on to him.
Oh, my God.
He's pulling the boat away.
He keeps jumping under the boat.
There he goes!
Watch out, don't get clotheslined.
-Ooh! -Don't wrap your hand.
I'm not.
Whoo!
He's trying to pop that line.
There he is, watch that tail.
Coming back around for a shot! Right there.
-[rifle clicks] -Oh, no.
No bullets.
-Got him, Anna? -Yeah.
-Hold on to him. -He's rolling.
He's gonna try to pop it.
Get that shot!
[gunshot]
Whoo!
He didn't make that easy.
-Good job, Anna. -That's a big monster.
That's a ten-footer all day, Ash.
-Ready? -Yup.
One, two, three.
This ten-foot goliath is not the one they saw earlier,
but it's exactly the type of monster they came here for,
and Ashley still hopes
they'll get the one Troy tipped them about.
We got a lot more lines left to run
based on really good information,
so we're just gonna keep on running 'em
and hope it turns around.
We're gonna have that big one today.
He's gotta be out here. He just has to.
Back on Lake Verret...
Troy and Pickle are still searching
for the monster they call Jaws that bent their shark hook.
Oh, look. Just keep going straight.
It's tight going in.
Looks like it's gonna be wrapped up around this stump.
It's wrapped. See that little stump right underneath there?
-Yeah. -It's under there.
Oh!
Look at this. [gasps]
Whoa, a broken hook.
A broken hook?
Whoa. I ain't never seen that before.
I've never seen a broken hook like this before.
I've seen broken alligator hooks,
but this is a shark hook we using,
and I've never seen a broken shark hook. Never.
This thing is massive.
This is gonna be a Jaws of the alligators, I promise you.
-Gol. -He broke it.
Look at that. Not just broke, it's bent.
It's twisted.
It's bent and broken.
[chuckles]
That's a big boy.
What? What you talking about?
Wow.
I ain't never seen a hook like that.
Gol.
We definitely resetting this one, huh?
Oh, what you talkin' about, man.
Hey, I'm gonna try something.
You see how he bent that first one?
Just that one? I'm gonna put two of 'em on here.
You can't bend two shark hooks at one time.
You might be able to bend separate and break one,
but two together, we're gonna try it.
He might straighten one, but he ain't gonna straighten two.
Putting two.
Puttin' two hook?
Two hooks and two pieces of chicken.
Look at that rigamaroo.
I think we going to...
if the clothespin hold, we gonna catch him,
we gonna catch him right here.
-Oh, yeah. -He ain't gonna get away
from two hooks.
No, he ain't bending that.
Can't bend two of 'em, bud.
We gonna run more lines,
and late this evening we gonna come back over here.
Hopefully, hopefully we can hold him on this.
I think that's a good idea to put two hooks.
Oh, yeah.
Over in the shell fields,
midway through the day,
the Edwards have caught only eight
of the 25 gators they're targeting.
Oh-ho-ho.
Yeah, filling all these tags and everything,
you feel the pressure, I mean, we treble hook
99.9% of our alligators,
and now treble hooking just ain't working.
Something's not right.
With their treble sharpened, they're ready to hunt again.
There he is.
Had enough?
[bleep]! The tail.
Big gator.
Ready?
Pick up that rope right there, Willie.
[soft chatter]
At 11 feet, this gator's a giant,
but he still only fills one tag,
leaving the Edwards with 16 tags left to fill.
I'm kind of worried, because we still got
a good bit of tags to fill.
But I'm willing to show everybody
that I got what it takes
and I'm willing to fill these tags like it's nothing.
In Sanders Slough,
Leron and Porkchop continue to fill tags,
but they've failed to lure
the catfish-loving monster Whiskers
with his favorite food.
Man, we doing real good.
We catching gators, catching nice gators.
So, our game plan is coming along well,
but it's not coming along as well as we like it
because we ain't caught Whiskers yet.
And the mission's just not completed without Whiskers.
Oh, yeah.
Lemme get up there, lemme get up there, cuz.
Huh.
Man.
You cooling it up there or coming down here?
Man.
I got him, man.
Be careful, cousin.
-Give me a shot, Porkchop. -I'll give you a shot.
Hold on.
That's one pissed-off gator, cousin!
Yeah, cuz.
-Whoo! I got him, cuz. -Give me a shot, Porkchop,
-give me a shot! -I'mma get you one.
He's death-rollin', cuz. He's death-rollin'.
You sure you got him? I don't want him
to pop that string, cuz.
He ain't goin' nowhere, cuz.
Give me a shot, cuz.
I got him, cousin. Watch him, cuz.
-Give me a shot, cousin. -I'm gonna give you one.
Whew, cuz, he wore me out trying to get him here, cuz.
Give me a shot. Give me a shot, Porkchop!
I'm trying, cuz. I'm trying to get you one.
There you go, cuz. There he is.
You gotta take him now when you get him.
[gunshot]
Good job.
He wore that fish out, huh?
-He wore you out, too? -Yeah.
Man. We got him though, cousin.
Whew!
Every gator helps Leron and Porkchop
fill their tags and reclaim their fishing hole,
but they have yet to catch the one they're after.
Catching all these gators out of our fishing hole
is gonna help the fishing hole much
because them fish, they're gonna get comfortable
going back in there and swim freely.
But what would be great for the fishing hole
and great for our tags
is if we get Whiskers out of there.
There you go, cousin.
-Look at this, man. -What's that?
That's something else, boy.
Whiskers is like the big kahuna
of this fishing hole. I mean, he the top dog.
Whiskers beat this gator up and fought him.
When we get that Whiskers, bro,
we gonna kill two birds with one stone, you know.
-Oh, yeah. -He taking the catfish
-and he taking our alligators. -Oh, yeah, cuz.
Oh, yeah.
In Bayou L'Orange,
with just four Landry tags left to fill,
Bruce decides to check the catfish jugline
he deployed earlier.
Now I'm looking for gator lines and juglines.
But I set 'em all right here,
so if it ain't here, that means they moved up some.
I gotta set my mind,
I'm gonna catch ten more gators for Troy today,
and I've already got six of 'em.
I got a few more lines left,
but I wanna check on these juglines
I set earlier to catch a catfish.
So I just can't wait to see what happens.
Oh, boy.
Think I got something on this one.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, God, that's gotta be a big one.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, he's barely hooked in the mouth.
About to lose him. I'm about to lose him.
Ha-hey!
Fish fry tonight!
That's what I'm talking about.
With supper safely in the boat,
Bruce turns his attention
to filling his remaining four tags.
I really don't wanna let Troy down the last day.
I still got my work cut out for me.
But the good news is,
hey, I got catfish to eat.
Let's go catch some gators.
Back on Lake Verret,
Troy and Pickle return to the line
Pickle baited with two shark hooks,
hoping to catch the monster they've named Jaws.
We'll see if he's there.
We can't let him show us up.
This could be one of the biggest alligators we ever caught.
But, you know, alligators are just like people.
Every one of them has a different attitude.
Some of 'em learn, they get smarter.
If they get off of a hook, you--
a lot of times you're never able to catch 'em again.
Look tight there, P.
This is the double hook.
Oh, oh, oh, you saw
-how tight the line got? -Yeah-yeah-yeah.
Shake the branch, shake the branch.
-Look like a big one? -Yeah.
-Huh? -Yeah. Uh-huh.
He's under the boat.
Oh, he must be big.
You pull towards the bank.
I am pulling.
Pick him up, pick him up, Peewee, what's the hold up?
I'm trying not to piss him off.
Trying to do what you taught me to do.
Aah! Uh!
That-- oh, yeah, come on, come on, come on.
Look like Moby Dick.
That's Jaws down there, dude.
You see the size of that thing?
-Oh! -Don't let it go.
Whatever you do, don't let it go.
Don't let it go. Oh, oh!
-Oh! -Aah!
Oh!
Ooh, we need a bigger boat and a bigger gun.
Big boy.
Look like Jaws.
Watch him, Peewee.
-Oh! Yeah. -You all right?
-Whoo! We got him. -You got him.
You seen the size of that thing?
That's Jaws, Peewee, that's Jaws.
-That's your gator. -Couldn't beat that double hook.
God, I can barely lift him.
At 13 feet long,
this is Troy and Pickle's biggest dinosaur of the year.
This one is Jaws for sure, Peewee.
I know it's him.
We have a massive alligator.
I'm talking about as big as they get.
He looks like a dinosaur, he's so old,
this thing's been giving us problems
most probably for years and years in this area,
and we had no idea he was even here.
We got him! [laughs]
He's a horse.
Oh, yeah.
Outside of Calumet...
Ashley and Anna are searching for a huge gator
that escaped them earlier.
-You see that? -Anna.
Is that him?
Grab the steering wheel, Anna, that's a big gator.
You see him?
He's gonna have to come back out today, Ash.
You know, he likes to hang out right there.
I'm hoping that he'll go across
that little shallow point right there.
Yeah.
Right before that big water.
Yeah, we gotta get this gator, Anna.
Based on what I saw,
that is the biggest gator we've seen all season,
and this could be a record setter.
We're in the right area, you know, we're willing to try
whatever it takes to get the job done.
He's just like any other man.
He doesn't do what you want him to do at the right time.
But we gonna find him.
Men are a lot like gators.
They're pretty easy to figure out though, you know.
They just wanna eat and know where the ladies are.
Look at him. He's swimming out there.
Confident that they've spotted their target,
the hunters decide to wait
for the monster gator to emerge again.
We gotta find him.
In Bayou L'Orange,
on his final day in the swamp,
Bruce has a single Landry tag left to fill.
I just need one more gator,
and I'll have my ten for Troy, and everything'll be good.
Oh, that one's stretched out.
Oh, yeah.
I think this is the last one. I got the last tag,
but... he gonna fight you all the way to the end.
Come on, buddy. Uh!
Gotta watch him because he'll pull you overboard.
Uh!
He saw me slowing down.
Whoo! It's hard to believe an animal got that much power.
Think I'll put him on this side.
With this massive ten-footer caught,
Bruce has successfully met his commitment to Troy
and helped out his old pal.
I mean, it feels good to catch a big gator like this,
especially my last gator for Troy.
I done caught 150, 200 gators.
I know I helped Troy some. I know it.
I mean, that's just what we do in Louisiana.
Neighbor needs some help, you go do it.
And that's what the whole world needs to do.
Somebody needs some help, you need to go give it to 'em.
I got a new grandbaby that needs me to be rocking her.
Oh... all right.
I'm going home to see the wife and the grandkids.
Back in the shell fields,
Willie and Little Willie are way behind on their quota,
with only 11 of 25 gators caught
and less than an hour left before they need to head back.
It's a big responsibility when you got that many tags
on your hands, and you're just one boat fishing
and you ain't got but 30 days of a season.
-Throw it. -He's stirred up.
No, it didn't. Throw it.
Oh, [bleep]!
Told you it was a big one!
Don't let it get slack in it!
Get him, Daddy!
-[gunshot] -Oh!
You made him mad with that.
-I got him. -Yeah, but he can
come off of that, son.
He about to come off. He about to come off.
[gunshot]
Big gator!
Whoo!
This 12-foot beast is massive...
But the hunters are still desperate to fill more tags
when they suddenly spot another target.
Look right there.
Oh!
[exclaiming]
Pull it, Daddy.
[gunshot]
Whoo!
Another brute.
Even with back-to-back 12-foot monsters,
the Edwards end their day way behind schedule.
And with 57 tags yet to fill,
the hunters will need a miracle to save their season.
-Man, big ones, huh? -Yeah.
Yeah, when you ain't got much season,
a month long, I mean, it's hard,
hard to keep going and stay on track and everything.
And, I mean, it can be rough,
and we gonna try the best we can
and see what we come out with.
But I don't want to turn in no tags.
I ain't turned in none yet, and I ain't about to start.
Outside Calumet,
thanks to tips from local hunters,
Ashley and Anna have loaded their boat,
but they still haven't caught
the monster gator Troy tipped them about.
We need that big one that we saw swimming this morning.
That's bigger than any one I've ever seen out here.
Let's go see if we can get him in the boat.
All this information has really paid off,
but I wanna go back where we saw that big gator
that Mr. Troy was talking about.
I really have a goal set out to catch our biggest gator.
I've seen this gator with my own eyes.
I know he's huge.
I had a perfect shot, and I missed it.
I just wasn't able to get a good shot on him.
We just need to go back out there
and see if we can get him.
Oh, what's that right out there, Anna?
-Where, where, where? -It looks like a wake.
Right there where the end of our line would be.
-You see it right there? -Uh-huh.
Oh, my gosh, Anna. Please be that gator.
Oh, whoa, it's already--
Ash, that thing's a tree shaker.
Oh, he's about to pull that tree
-right out of the root. -Oh...
This is gonna be crazy.
Get that gun ready.
He's big, he's real big.
He ain't coming up.
Look at all those bubbles, Ash.
-Get a shot right away. -Oh, my God, Anna!
Hold on to him!
Oh!
Right here, Anna.
Whoo!
Watch out.
There he is.
Pull him up just a little bit further.
Get that shot.
[gunshot]
Oh, my God, Anna, look at this gator.
We freaking got him, Anna.
-This is gonna be-- -This is it.
--the record, you hear me?
-This is it. -The biggest gator, Anna.
All right, where do you want to pull him in, Ash?
Yeah, we got a whole new problem now, don't we?
All right, ready?
One... two...
-three. -Three.
You got the foot? Come on.
Ashley, I'm just going in. I'm just gonna pick it up.
It's gonna be deep right here.
It's not deep. Here, put my gun up there.
One, two, three.
It's going.
All right, I think we got him enough.
Oh, he's about to plop back.
This 12-foot leviathan is the record-breaking monster
they've been searching for all day.
There you go, Anna.
There's no doubt
that this is Anna and I's season's best gator.
We've never caught a bigger gator than this.
Got him, Anna!
It's just like, are you kidding me?
Everything that we've done
to get this to pull together paid off.
We came here and did what we came to do,
and we not only did it, but we did a damn good job.
It don't even look like it belongs there, it's so big.
Check that one off.
We pulled it off.
Ready for this sound?
Click-click.
Music to my ears.
Back in Sanders Slough,
Leron and Porkchop
have been clearing out their fishing hole,
but as they head to their last line,
they still don't have Whiskers.
We doing a good job in our fishing hole.
We catching gators, you know what I'm saying?
But the gators that we catching, they ain't Whiskers.
And time ain't on our side.
We can't be out here day after day
trying to catch Whiskers. It's either gonna be
now or never.
Oh, yeah.
You see it? Let me get out your way.
-I see it. -Go straight in on it.
-Go straight in. -Hang tight, I'm gonna try
to push us on the bank just a little.
All right. Get in there.
Might be Whiskers, huh?
We gotta get him, cuz, you ready?
Oh yeah, cousin.
Boy, that's a big boy.
Boy!
-Give me a shot, Porkchop. -I'll give ya one, cuz.
-Oh, yeah. -Oh, yeah.
-Whoa. -Hold up, cuz.
Come on, cousin, give me a shot, give me a shot, man.
I'm trying, cousin, I'm trying.
I got you, cuz, there you go, cuz.
Good job, cuz.
Whoo, boy, we got him, cuz.
-That's Whiskers, all right. -We got him, cuz.
Oh, yeah, I know that's Whiskers.
Yeah, we got him, huh, cuz.
All right, cousin, get that out the way.
Oh, man.
Gotta help me out.
I feel good now.
We gonna catch some catfish now, cuz.
-Oh, yeah. -We got him, cuz.
Oh, yeah.
I got this part. Look, lemme get the legs.
I got this here. I got this.
All right.
We got his ass now, cuz.
At 11 feet long
and the jugline hanging from its mouth,
Leron and Porkchop know they caught their monster.
Man, I feel so good about this situation, cuz.
We got a big old gator with a jugline in his mouth.
Cuz, the plan worked, man. We got Whiskers, bro.
Another few weeks, cousin,
fishing gonna be back like normal over here, man.
Back at Duffy's,
Bruce delivers his last load of gators
caught on Troy's tags.
-Bruce! -What's up?
What you got, Bruce?
Hi, Mr. Troy. I got 'em all done.
It's my last day. I'm heading home.
No, oh, no. It's not your last day?
Oh, yeah. We got some nice ones.
You got 'em all? All them tags I gave you?
Yeah, yeah. Yup. Yeah, they gone.
Thank you, man, thank you.
-Oh, no problem, brother. -That was a big help.
Bruce really saved me a lot of time and trouble.
Bruce been hunting alligators as long as I have,
maybe longer than me.
He's a good hunter and a good friend of ours,
of the family. He's laid back,
he's very dependable, very honest guy.
Bruce is over there.
Bruce is over there cooking some choupique.
Choupique and catfish.
Before he heads back home,
Bruce and his friends celebrate a commitment made and kept
with a good old fish fry.
-Ooh, what you got? -I got all these catfish.
If felt good, you know,
being over here helping Troy out.
I'm kind of happy it's over,
but I love to gator fish.
I'm gonna miss it.
-Hey, Mr. Bruce. -Hey, y'all made it.
Mr. Bruce is sweet.
He's just like an old grandpa
that's gonna tell stories.
I love being around him
because he's always in a good mood.
He's a teacher at heart,
so he doesn't mind explaining to me why he does things,
and so I enjoy learning from him.
Got the fish frying in the skillet.
Mr. Bruce is a teddy bear.
He's always there when I need him.
If I call him, he'll be there at 3:00 in the morning
and give me the shirt off his back.
It's just code of the swamp
and what we grew up with.
If somebody needs a hand, you lend it.
Why don't you take it and pass it around, Bruce?
Pass it around to everybody.
-All right, Mr. Bruce. -Thanks, Mr. Bruce.