As hunters race
to the finish line of another season,
mother nature steps in
with a surprise that drives gators into hiding.
-Nothing? -Nope. Another empty line.
This changes the game big time.
I'm worried we ain't gonna catch crap.
Hunters scramble to take out these monsters
before it's too late.
Boy, that wind is picking up.
Whether we gonna make it or break it,
we about to find out. [gunshot]
and some go to extremes to lure them back.
[zak coughs]
how long have you had these things?
It's gonna give a scent out
that alligators are gonna come
from miles and miles to come and see.
Unh! Aah!
That's a big alligator, bubba.
Take him out right now!
♪ when I was just a little boy ♪
- ♪ ♪ ♪
eks left in gator season,
a north wind has brought a cold front to the bayou,
dropping overnight temperatures into the fifties
and driving gators into hiding.
On the bank of the atchafalaya river,
king of the swamp troy landry
meets up with his team
to go over their plan of attack.
Ho, it's a little chilly this morning!
Feels good.
Feel good, huh?
North wind, dude. Look at that.
I told you it was gonna cool off.
For a change, it's nice.
The only problem is with this nice, cool weather
the gators aren't gonna bite.
These reptiles have to have heat to digest their food,
so they're gonna stop eating for a week or two.
This changes the game big time.
I didn't really think it was gonna cool off this much.
I'm afraid we gonna run lines for nothing today.
We ain't got nothin' to run, huh, don?
Nothin'.
What you mean you ain't got nothing to run?
That's our line we gonna run right there.
- Red, white, and blue. - Oh, lord.
It's not good to pick up all your lines, jacob,
and depend on just sniping.
You know that.
We'll see what's what at the end of the day.
We decided that we were just gonna go out with the big guns.
We're gonna cruise and try to snipe gators.
With that cold air, they'll sit up on the bank
a lot longer than normal, and a lot of times
you can get opportunities at shooting 'em a lot better,
you know, when it's cool like that.
I don't agree with y'all's strategy,
but y'all do what y'all can and we gonna do what we can.
- You ready, pee wee? - I'm ready.
- Good luck, boys. - Y'all be careful.
Go try to be productive.
We set a bunch of lines yesterday...
But with this cool front this morning,
I'm worried we ain't gonna catch crap.
That's it going down the tree.
Yeah, right here in front the tree.
Nope.
- Nothing? - Nope. Another empty line.
See how they chewed the bait but they didn't swallow it?
- Yeah. - It makes them not hungry.
They'll chew on it, but they won't swallow it.
It's just what I expected. We're not catching crap.
I can see all the next lines are still hanging.
So I'm thinking we might have to move further deep,
because that river,
the water's always seven or eight degrees cooler
than deep in the swamp.
We gotta hit the warm water.
The gators are still a little bit hungry.
We gotta head there and try to fill tags.
They don't like that cold water.
28 miles to the northwest, in lake fausse pointe,
joey edgar and his deckhand zak catchem
are enjoying the cooler temperatures.
But joey knows his comfort comes with a price.
Think that north wind took that humidity out the air.
Man, it just feels so good.
Not good for the alligator bite, but good for the men.
Any kind of cool weather during alligator season
slows the bite down.
And when that happens,
sometimes you have to think outside the box.
Zak, I got a surprise for you, bubba.
Look in the back of the boat under that tarp.
That's what that smell was?
- Yes, sir. - Dude.
I brought crawfish sacks.
We gonna put about 10 pounds in a sack,
mash it real, real good,
and we gonna hang it right here where we gonna hang this line.
So you're trying to chum
like we do for fish or sharks, huh?
- Correct. - Okay.
That's the chum bag.
So I had the idea with this cold front moving in,
maybe we'll use some of the bait
that we use at st. Mary's seafood.
Fish is a natural prey item for alligators,
especially if it stinks and starts to rot.
But once they smell the fish, they gonna bite on my chicken.
[coughs and gags]
how long have you had these things? Rotten already?
- They're not that rotten. - [coughs]
- augh. - Put some more.
I brought 100 pounds. Put some more.
This is worse than anything I've ever used for bait.
All right, how are we gonna crush these things?
You just walk on them, just mash them. Step on them.
All right.
Pogie fish is a really, really smelly bait,
and once it starts to ferment some,
it's gonna give a scent out
that alligators are gonna come from miles and miles
to come and see.
We wanna wake the swamp up.
- No. Look at this. - Yeah.
It's worse when you squish them like that.
- Ugh. - Yeah.
[coughs]
it's not that bad.
Zak is having a hard time bagging this fish
because his stomach is turning
and he's getting a little bit queasy.
But I guess in south florida,
they don't make them like they make them in south louisiana.
And what I'm gonna do to get it started dripping, watch.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's a real chum bag right there.
Yeah.
Hey, if it works, man, whatever, let's do it.
But if it doesn't work,
this is the last time I'm touching anything like that.
That's too much.
26 miles southeast, on the atchafalaya river,
jacob and don are looking to show troy
that sniping is the best way to hunt during this cold snap.
All right, d, we just gonna watch this left-hand bank
- real good. - Okay.
With this cool front coming through,
they should be in the sun.
Got it.
I'm one of those that try to adapt
to the curveball thrown at you,
and this is our gamble.
Whether we gonna make it or break it,
we gonna about to find out.
And they go and run lines,
so we'll see just how well lines are gonna produce
on a day like today to compare.
Hold on. I'm gonna run this up on the bank so we're steady.
Perfect, perfect, perfect.
See anything, d?
I got one down there. See that willow tree?
- See it overhanging? - Yeah.
Squeeze it off.
All right.
[gunshot] you smoked him.
He's done. Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him!
Oh, yeah.
He's in a shallow area right there, too.
It's perfect.
Perfect, perfect, perfect.
Oh, look, his legs just came up.
He disappeared.
Feel it?
- Got it? - I got him.
I got him, I got him! Unh!
Oh, yeah. That's a swamp donkey.
Watch that hook. Make sure we don't get it in us.
One, two, three.
There we go.
Whew!
Good shot.
That's what I'm [bleep] talking about.
- Hey, mr. Brewer. - Damn!
Jacob's gamble's already paying off
with an 11-foot monster in the boat.
Putting this big alligator in the boat right away,
it's kinda got my hopes up
and I'm thinking that our way of hunting
is probably gonna pay off at the end of the day
if we cover a lot of ground.
I don't think that old cold front's gonna stop me and you.
Nope.
I don't know if daddy's catching or not, but--
we gonna stack them up today.
We slowly filling the boat and fun, too.
Ain't gotta deal with that old funky chicken.
Oh, chicken's rough, man.
Had all I want of it.
- [laughs] - whew.
80 miles southwest, in pecan island,
gator queen liz choate and her stepson destin
have caught a few small gators,
but liz is worried that the north wind
will push more gators into hiding.
The north wind's confusing them right now.
They think it's time to go down,
but you still got a lot of heat to go through, destin.
We just in September. Still got a lot of heat to go.
But when you get that first little north wind come through,
it's deceiving them.
They think it's time to go down and bury.
This time of the year,
the alligators are normally feeding right now
to go in for the wintertime, go in their holes.
And when that first north wind comes down,
those alligators get skittish.
These animals might not like this north wind,
but I'm sure loving it.
Feels good.
Sometimes you get lucky.
They come out of the water and take the line.
But sometimes they just complete lockjaw.
Meaning lockjaw, they're not eating,
they're not moving, they're not anything.
They're just bedded down waiting.
Oh, definitely something.
That string's pulling.
We got one on this one.
- Hoo-hoo-hoo. - Whoa there.
You wanna keep that string underneath that boat
because it will pull us out and pull you out.
- Gol! - Whoa!
Hand burner.
He's not happy.
He's mad.
Powerful animal.
Whoo! Be careful. Uh!
He can pop that line real easy.
- Whoo! - You got him, miss liz?
Whoa!
In pecan island,
liz and destin wrestle with an aggressive beast.
Whoo! Be careful. Uh!
He can pop that line real easy.
- Whoo! - You got him, miss liz?
Whoa! He is not happy.
Choo! Damn!
Get ready.
[gunshot]
good gator.
Oh, he's green. Look at that.
The alligator's body is covered with green slime.
That tells me
they are bedded down in that marsh mud.
So looks like that's where the bigger gators are,
definitely in the marsh.
And since the gators are not coming to our house,
so we have to bring it to their house.
Maybe if that north wind backs off,
they might start coming out.
Meanwhile, 78 miles northeast,
after the cold front drove their gators into hiding,
troy and pickle have moved upriver
in search of warmer water.
We further away from the main river,
and the water's gonna be a little more warmer.
You can feel the difference.
- Oh, yeah, feel that. - Feel how much warmer?
This morning the water was milky and cool.
Yeah.
When you're close to the river that's current,
the water's flowing, it's a lot cooler.
And when you get deep into the swamp, it's muck.
Look right there. Look all the bubbles in the water.
You see that? That's because the water's so hot back here.
I bet you it's 10 or 12 degrees warmer
than where we started this morning.
- It's a lot hotter than it was. - Yup. We lucky.
The bubbles in the water is the methane gas
from the decaying planks and the vegetation,
and it's a lot, lot warmer.
And I really think,
I really think this is where we're gonna do good.
All right, what we got here, mr. Troy?
Ooh, I see a tight line.
- Huh? - Looks a little wet.
- It's tight? - It is tight, yeah.
Finally we caught a alligator.
We gonna see.
Uh-oh. What we got here?
Ain't got nothin'?
I think we got something on here.
What we got, cinderella, what we got?
Bring him up!
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Whoo! Watch him, baby girl, watch him!
Come on. Give him a headache.
- Come on! - Oh!
- You gonna shoot him? - Yeah, I'm gonna shoot him.
- You gotta give me a shot. - Well, shoot him. Go ahead.
Oh, watch him, watch him.
Oh! Whoo!
- You ready? - Yeah.
Aah!
[gunshot]
hey.
[laughs]
that's what I'm talking about.
Huh?
That girl don't play.
While not a giant, the first gator proves
that the king of the swamp's years of experience
are invaluable.
We ran 25 lines
before we caught our first gator,
so I think we onto something.
I think this is where we need to fish
while this cool front is still here.
Where we going, further back deep into the swamp,
it's gonna be even a little bit warmer than here.
All right, let's go.
Meanwhile, four miles north,
jacob and don started off hot,
but cold winds are picking up,
driving the gators deeper into hiding.
Boy, that wind is picking up.
That front moved through, partner.
Man, that wind's getting up.
Well, as we traveling along the big bayou,
it's very chilly, a lot chillier
than we ever had it during alligator season.
But, you know, I'm the captain of my own boat,
and I decided we wanted to go and snipe
and see, you know, what kind of day we can have.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Look way up ahead on the right.
Look with the binoculars right quick.
Just wanna look before I get close and it goes down.
See that shining every once in a while?
About one o'clock?
There he is.
[gunshot]
go, go, go, go, go!
All right, d, grab your treble hook.
Look, he just rolled over.
Straight out from that lily.
Look, you saw the bubbles?
I got it.
Perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
- Got him? - I got him, I got him.
He's gonna come under the boat or he's smoked too long.
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
Grab that other leg.
Although they were able to bag this seven-footer,
the cold wind seemed to have scared the gators off the bank,
and jacob's plan for the day is quickly falling apart.
We realizing just how cool it is,
and I'm starting to second guess my thought process
because we not seeing any alligators.
We gotta change something
and change our strategy for sure.
Hopefully, we load the boat, but I ain't seein' much.
Don't look too promising.
26 miles away, in lake fausse pointe,
having spent the morning
hanging chum bags of smelly fish,
joey and zak hope their cold-weather strategy pays off.
Let's see it, the old stink bait.
Oh, it's gonna work.
I'll believe it when I see an alligator on the line.
That's gonna work.
We've never tried this before,
but it's such a smelly bait.
We use it to crab and crawfish,
and I'm curious to see what's gonna happen.
Oh, my god, he bit the sack.
He's on the line.
Oh, yeah, it's tight out there.
Yeah, he's on the line.
I told you.
The proof's in the pudding.
- You ready? - Yeah.
Uh-oh.
He's heavy?
He feels heavy.
He's coming.
Gimme a shot.
Aah!
That's a big alligator, bubba.
Give me a shot. Let's kill this bad boy.
Oh!
Where's he hooked at? [gunshot]
- oh, yeah! - No!
In lake fausse pointe,
joey and zak are battling a juggernaut.
Oh, that's a big one.
Where's he hooked at? [gunshot]
- oh, yeah! - No!
Give me another one.
- That's a nice one. - Give me a shot.
Come on.
Oh, yeah. Here we go, here we go.
I'm gonna kill this alligator.
Death roll. Death roll, death roll.
Take him out.
Take him out right now!
- Nice shot. - Good job.
- That's a big one. - That fish.
That fish.
I guess it's working, huh?
You guess? The proof's in the pudding.
He's not a monster-monster, but that's a big one.
Ooh. This one has the worst breath
of any alligator we ever caught.
All right.
Mm-hmm. Oh, missed him. Hold on.
There we go. Ready? One, two...
Got that big boy.
Not a bad gator. Come on.
He bit my sack.
In other words, he went at the fish,
and then he was hungry enough,
he just hit the chicken.
That was a great indicator that this is gonna work
and that we made the right move today.
You're never too old to stop learning, huh?
- Yeah. - Never too old.
Wish I was too old to stop smelling, though.
Whatever it takes.
- [retches] - come on.
[gags]
57 miles southwest,
as liz and destin head into the marsh
looking for sheltering gators,
a storm moves in,
adding another obstacle to their day.
God, dd, I can't see with all this drizzle.
You have to take them off?
Yeah. I can't do it. Just can't see.
You gonna have to be my eyes today.
The weather's just been crazy.
A lot of wind. Got rain coming in.
So I don't know what's gonna happen.
Those alligators are so skittish right now to begin with
because of the north wind.
And I got a good feeling we're gonna have a lot of trouble.
- That our pole? - Yeah.
That one, too.
Look, he's on the bank. He looks like a nice one.
Destin, he's going in, he's going in!
- That's a big one. - That's a big one.
Going this way.
That's a tight line right there, buddy boy.
- Whoa! - Whoa!
Hold on, buddy.
He's pretty mad.
He's all wrapped up around that tree. That's the problem.
Just watch your hands.
Okay, let's get ready.
Hold him tight, destin.
Ready?
[gunshot]
- nice shot. - Hold on.
Gotta reposition him.
- Ready? - He's slippery.
Aah!
Whew!
Wanna roll him to the front or back?
Front. Front.
Yeah.
Let him come this way.
Aah!
We needed something like that.
Whoo!
Nice one. Whoo!
The change of strategy's paying off.
We catch a big alligator in the marsh,
but in the back of my mind, it's constantly there.
Are we gonna catch more?
Is it gonna get worse?
Hopefully, it gets better,
but it's like a gambling game going on throughout the day.
Even with this weather, they're still pretty hungry.
Oh, I'm glad he came out to eat.
To the southeast, back on the atchafalaya river,
jacob and don are having serious trouble
finding gators to snipe.
See anything, jacob?
Nothing at all. Not even a little one.
They decide it's time
to head back to the dock for reinforcements.
You know, halfway through the day,
we just not catching
what we need to be catching by now.
But I had a secret weapon in my back pocket.
I had chase there.
- You ready? - Oh, yeah.
You already know that. Where we going?
We gonna take the spillway going this way,
and then you take it this way.
Okay. I know don and jacob could use a little help,
so here I am.
I might be the deciding factor
in kind of humbling my dad a little bit.
It doesn't take long
before chase spots a gator swimming in open water.
Oh, look, look, he's over there.
Ooh, ooh, oh.
It's a monster.
Look right here, up the front.
Think we about to make us a move.
Fire in the hole. [gunshot]
near the atchafalaya river,
chase has a monster in his sights.
Fire in the hole.
[gunshot] I got him.
Look at that.
There he is. There, I got him.
Oh, yeah, that's him.
That's him. I got him there.
Ooh, big boy.
Oh, yeah.
Good shot.
That's your ass now.
Now I got you.
Whew.
Feels real good to know
that I might play a part in my brother and don
kinda teaching my dad
something, you know, about sniping.
Maybe changing his mind, hopefully.
Meanwhile, jacob has given in
to the pressure to beat his dad
and has stopped off for some bait to hang lines.
The landry family has always been competitive.
You know, it's what drives us every day.
So me and don, we're going to set lines
back in the area where the water's real shallow,
stays warm.
So hopefully them gators are still active.
I sure in the hell don't wanna come back in
with less gators than my old man,
because you ain't never gonna hear the end of it.
I hear you, I hear you.
Back in lake fausse pointe,
after some success running lines using chum bags
full of the worst-smelling fish you can imagine,
joey and zak have hit a dry spell.
The pogies not working anymore, zak.
We got to come up with something.
It stops working because as the day goes on,
the side with the sun that morning turns into shade.
So now we have to move the bait to the sunny side.
Oh, don't bring that back in the boat.
- Got to, son. - [retches]
- please. - Got to.
On a fish to chicken scale,
these oily fish are pretty, pretty bad.
While I'm in the boat with them,
I feel like the smell is getting stuck
to every crevice and every part of my body.
These fish are just terrible.
I got an idea.
Instead of hanging it in a tree, hanging it up
like we did earlier... - Yeah?
We're gonna pour it on the ground right here.
We're gonna pour it on the ground right here, buddy.
During the cold front situation,
alligators, they will find a sunny bank and bask.
They'll open their mouth and just try to warm up.
And we figure that if we put some in a spot
where--a sunny bank where an alligator would come to bask
and then hang a line close to it,
that would just trigger his bite.
We're gonna put some bait right here, zak,
and we're gonna try to pull 'em out.
They living in that back hole.
This is a highway. This is a perfect spot to put it.
Oh, my god.
Like that. Like that.
And then we're gonna put our line right there.
We're gonna get him.
They gonna come for that.
I don't know why anyone...
I don't know why anyone would want to come for that.
You all right?
Yeah. Thank god that's out of the boat.
Ahh, but that's what we want.
Whose idea was the fish thing again?
Think I like that person less now.
Was that you? [laughs]
28 miles away, troy and pickle
are turnin' and burnin' through their lines.
The decision to move to warmer waters has paid off.
Now that we deep, deep in the middle of the swamp,
you feel the heat?
Yeah, that water warmed up, huh?
Them bubbles are coming up like that.
It's just this area. The water's hot here.
That's why we starting to catch a lot better right here.
There's no current and no oxygen in the water there,
and it's a lot warmer.
And I know that as soon
as we started getting deeper in the swamp,
we started catching pretty good.
- We got something here. - Oh, yeah.
There's bubbles all over the water.
It's a good area back here.
What we got? What we got?
Whoo-hoo! It's a good one.
Ooh, look at the size of that thing.
Whoo! Bring him up, baby. Bring him up!
- Whoo-hoo! - Feisty, huh?
Don't let him go around the front.
He's so mean.
- Boy, aggressive, huh? - Yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa, watch it!
Deep in the swamp,
troy and pickle wrangle a bucking beast.
Whoa, whoa, watch out.
- Huh? - Be careful.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Whoo! - Careful.
Hurry. Give me a shot.
[gunshot] there you go.
- Whoo! - Whoo!
I guess maybe level off the boat.
- I think he's good. - Put him on the other side.
Doesn't have a hole in the plate, but he's all right.
- He dead. - Yeah.
- He dead. - Should be all right.
Ready? One, two, three.
Another eight-footer brings the team's total to 12 gators.
Even with a cold front, troy is pleased with the total
despite not knowing how jacob and don are doing.
We caught good after we moved locations.
And if don and jacob could snipe a few, it would help.
But I don't think they gonna do much.
Tuck you in real good.
Take a good nap.
Take care now.
78 miles southwest, the storm has passed,
and liz hopes her plan to move to the marsh
will pay off with more giants in the boat.
This is one of those pretty cuts
coming in and out the marsh right here.
This is prime territory for big gators.
Well, when you're alligator hunting,
you have to make adjustments as you go,
because you almost have to think like the alligator.
You try to put those lines out
where you think they're gonna be,
but then you have to move things around
because, well, alligators are not biting here.
So a bunch of different strategies you have to do
when you're alligator hunting.
You just have to try to outsmart 'em.
See something, buddy.
Is that its head right there?
That's a first for me
to see north wind blowing and they're still coming out.
Normally, they lockjaw completely, but this is awesome.
Good lord is on our side today.
You're grabbing the gun instead of the hook pole.
Oh, he took off back that way.
You got the line or you want me to get it?
I got it.
Oh, yeah. Got a nice one.
Big boy's pissed off.
Look like he just took that line.
Go ahead. Put it right on him.
[gunshot]
good gator. Slime on that sucker.
Tells you they've been sitting in the marsh.
See 'em on the line that aggressive,
like almost coming for you,
that's...That's crazy.
On a day where I thought it was gonna be a complete bust,
we wound up with an awesome catch.
Not bad on a north wind blowing day.
Not bad at all.
But we had to go in their home to try to catch 'em,
and it paid off.
Okay, I'm done. Let's go home.
[both laugh]
80 miles northeast,
chase continues his mission
helping jacob and don raise their gator count.
[gunshot]
got him.
Ooh, there he is.
There he is. There I got him.
Ooh, [bleep].
There I got him.
Whoo, big boy.
Sniping this 10-footer convinces chase
his favorite hunting method reigns supreme.
So I know my dad is running lines, okay,
and that's his bible.
He preaches the bible about that.
Not to say that shooting them in open water or sniping them
doesn't come with its fair share of difficulties or problems,
but that's just part of the risk, you know,
and with risk comes reward.
It ain't easy for sure
putting them big ones in the boat by yourself.
Psh-shew. High five.
Meanwhile, after struggling to find gators to snipe,
jacob and don turned to the tried and true: Running lines.
Now they've come to the last line of the day.
Got one.
Got one? Dang.
Lookie here. Lookie here.
Looks good, huh?
Tore the branch clean off the tree up here.
Oh, that's a good sign.
Oh, no, he's moving, he's moving, he's moving.
That's a good sign.
Here he comes.
Aah!
Hell, yeah!
Come here, turn around, turn around.
Aah!
There he goes, there he goes, there he goes!
Man.
Put a hole in him, jacob, put a hole in him.
He's on the boat, he's on the boat!
On the atchafalaya river...
Aah!
Jacob and don have a swamp donkey
on their final line of the day.
Watch yourself. Watch that line.
Flex them old oklahoma muscles, boy.
- Get him, jacob! - I'm trying.
[gunshot]
whew! That's a big daddy right there. [laughs]
one, two, three.
- Pull that head your way. - Damn.
This thing's heavy, jacob.
Got an old nubby. Nubby foot.
Oh, he's long, too.
Big slimy sucker.
This 11-foot, 500-pound monster
is the biggest catch of the day,
but jacob is not about to tell his old man
that he gave in and ran lines.
I just hope that we shoot more than what dad actually caught
so we have a little bragging rights to ourselves.
That's a good one there, buddy.
You eat your wheaties this morning?
26 miles away, in lake fausse pointe,
joey and zak head back to see if their rotting fish bait
has lured a monster out of hiding.
Looks like something messed with the bait.
Something came there.
Hunting alligators, fishing, hunting,
it's all trial and error.
A lot of times we encounter situations that change
and weather patterns that change
and it may change the bite or the catch.
In this particular instance with an early cold front,
we just had to think outside the box and make something happen.
One alligator for sure.
Yeah. Look at all the tracks, though.
- Yeah. - The tracks, raccoons,
there's alligators all over the place.
Yeah, yeah. It's working.
We put like 50 pounds of fish down there.
At least we're seeing a sign of activity.
Correct.
It doesn't take the boys long
to spot a monster staying warm on the shore.
Oh, my god.
He's up on the bank, bubba.
It looks like he's tangled pretty hard.
- Yeah. - You want me to get him?
Yeah, go get him.
I don't know how well he's hooked, though.
Now be careful.
'cause they fast.
You think he's alive?
He's alive. Look at his eye.
Get close to him.
- Whoa! Whoa! - Watch it, watch it!
Whoa, he's pissed.
Oh. He's fixing to straighten that hook.
Whoa!
Watch him, zak. He's fixing to pull the hook!
Whoa.
Shoot! Shoot!
[gunshot]
you got him, son.
Why are they so aggressive out here, man?
I don't know.
Dude, he was after me. He didn't care.
We got him with the pogie fish.
Unbelievable. It worked.
It feels really good to know that our actions aren't in vain
and that I'm just not throwing around rotten bait
all over the place for no reason.
It's a nice size gator, huh?
It's a nice gator, buddy.
Gator could've ate you up.
Came for the bait.
What a blessing. Right there.
This big alligator ended up biting,
and it's a really good feeling to get him in the boat
and just to have a plan executed.
Job well done.
For years we fished alligators and never thought about that?
- Yeah. - Chumming. But that works.
Hey, pop, next time you ask me to do something,
you just do me a favor?
Yeah.
Just don't ask me.
[laughs]
back in pierre part,
it's time to see whose style of cold-weather hunting
brought in the most gators.
You know, as we get back to duffy's,
I knew we had a load of gators in the boat
and it was gonna be hard to beat.
And sure enough, dad and pickle pulls up,
and there's a stack of alligators in the boat.
And I'm just shaking my head like there's no way
they caught all them alligators on lines this morning
as cold as it was.
Lines paid off after all.
Damn, got a couple of good'uns.
Not too bad.
We wasn't catching crap at first,
and then we went deep, deep in the back
where the water's hot, and then we caught good there.
So how y'all did with the sniping?
Not too bad. Don's gun hit the mark a few times.
Jacob, he has quite a few alligators in his boat.
He impressed me.
He had more than I expected him to have for sniping.
But chase is there, too.
But between both of 'em,
they still didn't outdo pickles and I.
We still caught more than them.
Yeah, not a bad day for cool like it was
between y'all's and ours.
Yup.
All right, let's get them unloaded.
Yup, let's unload them.
Got it. Oh. Oh!
For a cold front day, I figured we were gonna be lucky
to have four or five alligators this evening,
and we got two boats full.
So we did good. We did real good.
It's a good day.