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<i>Just as gator season
gets going...</i>

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This is the lowest
I've seen the water

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in years and years.

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I ain't never seen it this low.

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<i>Mother Nature
throws another curveball.</i>

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There's a lot of horsepower
behind us

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and a lot of timber
underneath that water.

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That's a bad combination.

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<i>Water levels are dropping
to record lows.</i>

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This is how much the water
dropped this morning

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- since we've been out here.
- A whole foot?

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We don't need to get stuck,
Porkchop.

13
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That's the last thing we need.

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<i>For some, it's an opportunity</i>

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<i>to settle old scores...</i>

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Grand Betaille is an alligator

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that we've been trying to catch
for about 10 years.

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Whoo, it's a big one!
I know it's him.

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Whoo! Whoo-hoo!

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I think that's him.
He's gonna pop the line!

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<i>while others risk getting
stranded in the swamp.</i>

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Here we go.
Here we go, baby.

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We ain't gonna make it out.

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Feel like we might not make it.

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[blues guitar plays]

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<i>It's 7 A.M.
in Southern Louisiana.</i>

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<i>In the last 12 hours,</i>

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<i>water levels have dropped by
more than a foot and counting.</i>

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<i>In Lake Fausse Pointe,</i>

30
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<i>veteran swamper Joey Edgar
and his deckhand Zak Catchem</i>

31
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<i>are heading out
to run their lines,</i>

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<i>but Joey can see
they've got problems.</i>

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Water fell hard last night.

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[revs engine]

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Aw, [bleep].

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<i>The low water
is making conditions difficult</i>

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<i>for their outboard motor.</i>

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Well, we got some really good
hunting grounds to hunt today,

39
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but the problem is,
with this water falling,

40
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we probably shouldn't
be going in here.

41
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I didn't know the water
was gonna drop like this.

42
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Now we gotta run 'em.

43
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This water's falling,
but we have no choice.

44
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We gotta get back there
and make it happen.

45
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Come on. Shut it--
Cut the motor off.

46
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I told you we weren't
gonna fit back here.

47
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Aw, aw, that doesn't feel good.
That's nasty.

48
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If I lose a toe, are you gonna
pay for it or what?

49
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- Here we go, baby.
- Good job, pop.

50
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Here we go, baby boy.
Now we're picking up steam, huh?

51
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[laughs]

52
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I think we got it.

53
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- We're getting kind of deep.
- Yeah, you can get in.

54
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I don't know about
coming out, though.

55
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Coming out is gonna be tough.

56
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That's that horsepower, come on.

57
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Let's go kill some alligators.

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<i>With the extra push, they
reach their hunting grounds,</i>

59
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<i>but with the water
dropping fast,</i>

60
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<i>there's no time to waste.</i>

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Line's down, Zak.
Oh...

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It's a little deeper
over here, too.

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Oh, might have this one.

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Might be a good one.

65
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Oh, yeah.

66
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Whoop.

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It's a big alligator, pop.
Get the gun.

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Get the gun.
Get the gun.

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Whoa!

70
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- Whoa, he's strong.
- Yeah.

71
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Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!

72
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Ah!

73
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There he is, there he is.
Come on!

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There's that death roll.

75
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Oh! Oh! Come on.

76
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You can get that shot off.

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Aah! Death rolls.
Death rolls.

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I ain't gonna play with him.

79
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I missed him.

80
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Big alligator! Come on.

81
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Give me a shot.
He's rolling.

82
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[Zak grunts]

83
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I don't want him to break
that lead.

84
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Come on. Just shoot him.
Take him out.

85
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Ooh. [laughs]

86
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What a death roller.

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That's a big one.
Oh, my God.

88
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<i>This 11-footer
is a welcome prize,</i>

89
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<i>but the water continues to drop,</i>

90
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<i>and they'll need to work fast
before they get stranded.</i>

91
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Oh, man.

92
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Nice. Whoa!

93
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Oh, that's a fat alligator.

94
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- That's a fine one.
- My God.

95
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You know, we just caught
a nice alligator,

96
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but I'm worried
about this water falling.

97
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We got to try to get
these alligators killed

98
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as quick as possible.

99
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And I don't know
what we could do to come out.

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We'll figure that out
when it happens.

101
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We just gotta be careful.

102
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We got an ever-changing
environment right now,

103
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and Mother Nature,

104
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she's showing us
that we not in control.

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<i>75 miles east, in Bryson,</i>

106
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<i>veteran gator hunter
Willie Edwards</i>

107
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<i>and his son Little Willie</i>

108
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<i>are trying to use the low water
level to their advantage</i>

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<i>by hunting one of the family's
favorite honey holes.</i>

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Man, back there by Bryson,
if we can get back there.

111
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and lots of them.

112
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I don't wanna take a chance
of going back there

113
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and tearing that motor up,

114
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but looks like that's
what we gonna have to do.

115
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We always got low water
this time of the year.

116
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And Bryson is a hole
off in the woods,

117
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like a big lake
off in the woods.

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If the water's low,
that's the only hole

119
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they got to go to to have water.

120
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That's my time to catch 'em.

121
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I mean, if you ain't back there
right when they do all that,

122
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you ain't gonna catch
no alligators back there.

123
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They'll disappear
like you're hunting ghosts.

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<i>For Willie, the low water
creates an opportunity</i>

125
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<i>to catch big bulls in Bryson,</i>

126
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<i>but it also makes getting there
a challenge.</i>

127
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Now hold on. We're about
to make a little trip.

128
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Hope we don't tear nothin' up.

129
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Oh, Lord.

130
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Hold on, hold on.

131
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Hold on!

132
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Made for gator tails and stuff
and it's like mud motors.

133
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It's just a struggle
to get in there.

134
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It ain't his first rodeo.

135
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But it's beautiful back there.

136
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I mean, it's quiet
and big alligators everywhere.

137
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Little one swimming out there.

138
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- One right there swimming.
- That's little.

139
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We gonna go this way first.

140
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Caught one right there one time.

141
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He was 11-7,
but he was about that thick.

142
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He should've been
a 13 or 14-footer.

143
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Set of bubbles over there.
Over there, look.

144
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Yeah, right over there.
I see him.

145
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- Right there. Get your hooks.
- Yeah.

146
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I know for a fact,
a scientific fact,

147
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something right here.

148
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- Go ahead and throw it.
- OH, he's caught this time.

149
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<i>The treble hook</i>

150
00:08:07,562 --> 00:08:09,971
<i>is a tried and true method
to hunt gators</i>

151
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<i>and an Edwards family favorite.</i>

152
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Pull it. Pull it, Willie.

153
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Snatch.

154
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Soon as you feel it,
don't reach and grab for it.

155
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You gotta snatch him.

156
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- You got him?
- I don't know what I got.

157
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Oh, he's a big one.

158
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Eight foot?

159
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- Oh!
- Don't let him get off.

160
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Let him head down.
Don't--Don't force him.

161
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Don't force him,
don't force him.

162
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Go ahead,
get him up, get him up.

163
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[gunshot]

164
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- You all right?
- Yeah.

165
00:09:03,935 --> 00:09:06,436
Oh, let me help you, son.

166
00:09:06,454 --> 00:09:09,105
Oh, he's barely hooked.
Right in the toe.

167
00:09:09,124 --> 00:09:10,382
Get him up right there.

168
00:09:12,611 --> 00:09:15,369
- Good 10-foot alligator.
- Oh, a good 10-foot. Boom!

169
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<i>Bryson is living up
to its reputation</i>

170
00:09:17,632 --> 00:09:19,799
<i>as a big gator haven.</i>

171
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Keeping that average up.

172
00:09:21,303 --> 00:09:22,710
I mean, we gotta get
more than that,

173
00:09:22,729 --> 00:09:25,972
but, uh, we'll take him.
That's a fine gator.

174
00:09:26,066 --> 00:09:27,882
<i>But as hard as it is
to get back here,</i>

175
00:09:27,976 --> 00:09:31,644
<i>Willie won't be satisfied
till he gets a monster.</i>

176
00:09:31,738 --> 00:09:33,238
We made it back here.

177
00:09:33,389 --> 00:09:36,482
Now we wanna catch
some bullwinkles.

178
00:09:36,577 --> 00:09:38,301
I wanna treble hook the biggest
one they got on Earth.

179
00:09:38,394 --> 00:09:40,153
I mean, I know
they got one back there

180
00:09:40,305 --> 00:09:42,914
that's 14, 15 foot.

181
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Bullwinkle.

182
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<i>28 miles south, in Pierre Part,</i>

183
00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:02,601
<i>like the Edwards, veteran
alligator hunter Leron Jones</i>

184
00:10:02,752 --> 00:10:06,104
<i>and his deckhand
Anthony "Porkchop" Williams</i>

185
00:10:06,331 --> 00:10:08,422
<i>are struggling
to navigate the low water.</i>

186
00:10:08,442 --> 00:10:10,591
Whoo!

187
00:10:10,611 --> 00:10:12,777
Oh, watch it there, cap.

188
00:10:17,342 --> 00:10:19,600
Man, we barely
getting through this, man.

189
00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:21,511
It's gonna be hard to get
to some of the lines, cuz.

190
00:10:21,604 --> 00:10:23,346
It's gonna be hard
to get to some of them, bro.

191
00:10:23,365 --> 00:10:25,106
We don't need to get stuck,
Porkchop.

192
00:10:25,125 --> 00:10:26,532
That's the last thing we need.

193
00:10:26,685 --> 00:10:27,942
But it gonna be hard

194
00:10:28,036 --> 00:10:29,352
once this thing's
full of gators, man.

195
00:10:29,445 --> 00:10:31,037
Well, you know
we gonna fill it up.

196
00:10:31,131 --> 00:10:33,131
- You know we gonna fill it up.
- Oh, you already know that.

197
00:10:33,358 --> 00:10:35,449
<i>To make matters worse,
the hunters face</i>

198
00:10:35,469 --> 00:10:39,471
<i>an even more serious danger
below the surface.</i>

199
00:10:39,698 --> 00:10:41,288
When the water high,

200
00:10:41,383 --> 00:10:43,808
you can pass over stuff
that's underneath that water

201
00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,702
and you wouldn't even know
it's there.

202
00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:48,037
That's the kind of conditions

203
00:10:48,131 --> 00:10:49,722
we gotta go through, cuz,
low water.

204
00:10:49,875 --> 00:10:51,391
Hold up, young man.

205
00:10:51,543 --> 00:10:53,209
But the minute
it start dropping,

206
00:10:53,302 --> 00:10:54,969
there's a lot
of horsepower behind us

207
00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:57,063
and a lot of timber
underneath that water.

208
00:10:57,215 --> 00:10:58,448
That's a bad combination.

209
00:11:00,476 --> 00:11:02,719
Come on. We gotta
get in the back, cuz,

210
00:11:02,737 --> 00:11:04,554
by any means necessary.

211
00:11:04,572 --> 00:11:06,665
Oh, yeah, any means
necessary, Porkchop.

212
00:11:06,816 --> 00:11:09,742
Whew! Man!

213
00:11:09,895 --> 00:11:11,394
Yeah, we out
of the shallows now.

214
00:11:11,487 --> 00:11:12,587
I can drive us over there.

215
00:11:16,677 --> 00:11:18,843
Got the line down.
Looks like it tangled up.

216
00:11:20,681 --> 00:11:21,905
I see the rope.

217
00:11:21,998 --> 00:11:22,922
Yeah, you see the rope
over there?

218
00:11:23,016 --> 00:11:25,241
Look at that, cuz.

219
00:11:25,260 --> 00:11:28,244
All right.
Gotta be careful now, cuz.

220
00:11:28,263 --> 00:11:29,688
He on land now, you know.

221
00:11:31,766 --> 00:11:33,024
What you think?

222
00:11:33,176 --> 00:11:35,418
- Hold this gun for me, Porkchop.
- Oh, yeah, cuz.

223
00:11:35,437 --> 00:11:36,528
- We in a bad situation.
- And hold on tight.

224
00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,846
Imma drive us
some more in there.

225
00:11:38,865 --> 00:11:40,115
That's better.

226
00:11:41,943 --> 00:11:42,992
Hold up. Come on.

227
00:11:45,430 --> 00:11:46,621
[gunshot]

228
00:11:49,267 --> 00:11:51,960
Come on, cuz.
Come up here and get your gun.

229
00:12:04,632 --> 00:12:05,890
Whoo! Hey, cuz.

230
00:12:07,376 --> 00:12:08,968
- You bailed me out, cuz.
- That's all right, man.

231
00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:10,878
That's teamwork
makes the dream work, man.

232
00:12:10,972 --> 00:12:12,455
That's what we do, Porkchop.

233
00:12:12,548 --> 00:12:14,958
Now we got
a different situation.

234
00:12:15,051 --> 00:12:16,884
He's just tangled up back there.

235
00:12:16,903 --> 00:12:18,962
Hold on.
I got it. I got it.

236
00:12:19,055 --> 00:12:21,297
- You got it?
- Yeah. Help me out, cuz.

237
00:12:21,316 --> 00:12:23,408
All right, cuz.
I got him now, cuz.

238
00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,577
Whoo, man.

239
00:12:25,728 --> 00:12:26,745
Look at that, Porkchop.
Dead center, off the boat.

240
00:12:28,473 --> 00:12:31,082
10 yards away, man. Whoo!

241
00:12:31,309 --> 00:12:33,493
I was dead center,
but I wasn't centered on him.

242
00:12:33,645 --> 00:12:36,479
-Yeah, he-- [both laugh]

243
00:12:36,498 --> 00:12:38,405
<i>With these conditions
making it hard</i>

244
00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:40,666
<i>to land even
a small alligator...</i>

245
00:12:40,819 --> 00:12:42,076
We got him in, cuz. Whew!

246
00:12:42,170 --> 00:12:44,411
<i>Leron and Porkchop know</i>

247
00:12:44,506 --> 00:12:45,913
<i>they're in for a long day.</i>

248
00:12:46,007 --> 00:12:47,932
You can't predict the water.

249
00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:50,084
When it's high, it's high,
when it's low, it's low.

250
00:12:50,103 --> 00:12:51,995
But, you know,
you gotta be out there, man.

251
00:12:52,088 --> 00:12:53,772
Gotta go out there
and make it happen.

252
00:12:53,999 --> 00:12:55,589
That's a lot of weight
on this boat, boy.

253
00:12:55,609 --> 00:12:56,833
Yeah.

254
00:12:56,926 --> 00:12:59,110
- We gonna get it, cuz.
- Oh, yeah, man.

255
00:13:01,339 --> 00:13:03,865
- Almost to the promised land.
- Almost there.

256
00:13:19,858 --> 00:13:22,025
<i>Across the bayou,</i>

257
00:13:22,043 --> 00:13:24,193
<i>King of the Swamp Troy Landry...</i>

258
00:13:24,287 --> 00:13:27,046
- All right, Pee-wee, you ready?
- Mm-hmm.

259
00:13:27,198 --> 00:13:30,291
<i>heads out with his deckhand
Cheyenne "Pickle" Wheat.</i>

260
00:13:30,385 --> 00:13:33,127
Let's get moving, old man.

261
00:13:33,146 --> 00:13:35,388
<i>And for the lifelong
alligator hunter,</i>

262
00:13:35,482 --> 00:13:37,816
<i>the record low-water levels</i>

263
00:13:38,043 --> 00:13:41,569
<i>are an opportunity
he's been waiting for.</i>

264
00:13:43,806 --> 00:13:46,825
Ooh, that wind was blowing
about 20 miles an hour.

265
00:13:47,052 --> 00:13:49,569
Dropped about six or eight
inches last night.

266
00:13:49,663 --> 00:13:52,722
This is the lowest I've seen
the water in years and years.

267
00:13:52,740 --> 00:13:54,724
Yeah. I ain't never seen it
this low.

268
00:13:54,817 --> 00:13:56,559
- Hey, you know what that means?
- Hmm?

269
00:13:56,578 --> 00:13:58,086
We might be able to catch
that big alligator.

270
00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:00,654
Big Betaille.

271
00:14:00,674 --> 00:14:02,565
Grand Betaille is an alligator

272
00:14:02,584 --> 00:14:06,511
that we've been trying to catch
I'd say for about 10 years.

273
00:14:06,738 --> 00:14:09,405
We spotted him
at least nine or 10 years ago,

274
00:14:09,424 --> 00:14:13,017
and he got away from us
that first year we seen him,

275
00:14:13,244 --> 00:14:16,503
and we've been trying
to catch him ever since.

276
00:14:16,598 --> 00:14:18,523
He lives deep in the swamp.

277
00:14:18,750 --> 00:14:21,342
Grand Betaille don't never
come out of the swamp.

278
00:14:21,436 --> 00:14:23,027
And some of them big alligators

279
00:14:23,179 --> 00:14:25,588
that never come out
of the swamp gotta come out now.

280
00:14:25,607 --> 00:14:27,365
The swamps are drying up,

281
00:14:27,516 --> 00:14:30,109
so this is our opportunity
to try to catch him.

282
00:14:30,203 --> 00:14:31,536
The line looks tight.

283
00:14:31,763 --> 00:14:33,446
I see it.

284
00:14:33,598 --> 00:14:35,189
- See what?
- The line.

285
00:14:35,283 --> 00:14:39,043
Yeah. What we got, Pee-wee?

286
00:14:41,047 --> 00:14:42,772
That I don't know.

287
00:14:42,865 --> 00:14:44,941
Feels like a little<i> bébé.</i>

288
00:14:44,959 --> 00:14:46,551
- A baby?
- Yeah.

289
00:14:54,561 --> 00:14:56,786
Oh! Say what?!

290
00:14:56,879 --> 00:14:59,397
Whoo! It's a big one,
it's a big one.

291
00:14:59,624 --> 00:15:00,547
Oh, no, no, no, no.

292
00:15:00,642 --> 00:15:02,383
Show him who's the boss,
Pee-wee.

293
00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:03,568
Show him who's the boss.

294
00:15:13,154 --> 00:15:15,580
- Whoo!
- Watch him, watch him!

295
00:15:20,161 --> 00:15:21,994
Knock himself out!

296
00:15:22,147 --> 00:15:23,479
He's a big one, he's a big one.

297
00:15:23,572 --> 00:15:24,997
He's rolling, he's rolling.

298
00:15:25,091 --> 00:15:26,257
You ready?

299
00:15:29,245 --> 00:15:30,670
You gotta get him.

300
00:15:30,764 --> 00:15:32,722
Shoot him.

301
00:15:41,166 --> 00:15:42,256
All right, Pee-wee.

302
00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:44,108
Hey, hey, hey.

303
00:15:44,260 --> 00:15:48,004
<i>This nine-footer's not big
enough to be Grand Betaille,</i>

304
00:15:48,022 --> 00:15:50,931
<i>but the day is young
and Troy won't be satisfied</i>

305
00:15:50,951 --> 00:15:53,100
<i>until he finds
the elusive gator.</i>

306
00:15:53,119 --> 00:15:55,194
I would've never dreamed

307
00:15:55,346 --> 00:15:57,771
that we'd still be chasing
this alligator 10 years later.

308
00:15:57,791 --> 00:16:00,291
We would've caught him
or shot him by now,

309
00:16:00,443 --> 00:16:01,851
but he don't come out.

310
00:16:01,869 --> 00:16:03,127
He don't come out the swamp.

311
00:16:03,354 --> 00:16:05,705
You just gotta wait.
It's a waiting game.

312
00:16:05,857 --> 00:16:08,299
You gotta wait until
the conditions are right.

313
00:16:08,526 --> 00:16:11,803
Timing is everything,
in everything.

314
00:16:12,030 --> 00:16:15,381
All right, Pee-wee.
Talk to me. You good?

315
00:16:15,533 --> 00:16:17,809
Mm-hmm.

316
00:16:18,036 --> 00:16:20,127
Hey, that's a nice gator.
We catching good.

317
00:16:20,221 --> 00:16:21,980
Yeah, we catching good.

318
00:16:34,235 --> 00:16:37,478
<i>52 miles southwest, in Franklin,</i>

319
00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:40,665
<i>veteran swamper Bruce Mitchell
is answering a call</i>

320
00:16:40,816 --> 00:16:42,983
<i>to help a crab fisherman in need</i>

321
00:16:43,003 --> 00:16:45,652
<i>after Hurricane Ida.</i>

322
00:16:45,747 --> 00:16:46,987
I made it. How you doing?

323
00:16:47,007 --> 00:16:48,322
Mr. Edgar said
you needed some help.

324
00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,732
Yeah, I need some help today.

325
00:16:49,751 --> 00:16:52,084
- Let's go.
- That's what I'm here for.

326
00:16:52,237 --> 00:16:52,993
- Let's go.
- Let's go.

327
00:16:53,013 --> 00:16:54,570
Careful, careful.

328
00:16:54,589 --> 00:16:55,513
What happened? Your deckhand
couldn't make it?

329
00:16:57,166 --> 00:16:58,574
Yeah, I know
everything's tore up.

330
00:16:58,593 --> 00:17:00,184
Mr. Edgar called last night

331
00:17:00,336 --> 00:17:01,577
and said you was having
a little trouble

332
00:17:01,670 --> 00:17:03,262
finding a deckhand and stuff.

333
00:17:03,414 --> 00:17:05,506
So I said I'll come
do what I can out here.

334
00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:06,749
Try to help you.

335
00:17:06,842 --> 00:17:09,193
- Let's go.
- Let's get it.

336
00:17:09,345 --> 00:17:12,605
- You ready? Let's go.
- Yes, sir.

337
00:17:12,699 --> 00:17:17,684
I met Mr. Sung Ly years ago
through Mr. Daniel Edgar.

338
00:17:17,779 --> 00:17:19,111
You know, he's a crabber.

339
00:17:19,264 --> 00:17:21,447
He said his deckhand's house
got tore up,

340
00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:22,932
and he's working on his house.

341
00:17:23,025 --> 00:17:25,025
So if I could come
help him crab,

342
00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:27,045
it would really
help things out a lot.

343
00:17:27,272 --> 00:17:28,695
That's what I've been doing
since the storm,

344
00:17:28,790 --> 00:17:30,864
basically helping people.

345
00:17:30,884 --> 00:17:32,717
And the way you look at this,
you know,

346
00:17:32,944 --> 00:17:34,110
I'm not only helping Mr. Sung
Ly,

347
00:17:34,203 --> 00:17:36,220
I'm helping Mr. Daniel out, too,

348
00:17:36,447 --> 00:17:38,872
because he sells his crabs
to Mr. Daniel.

349
00:17:38,892 --> 00:17:41,284
Mr. Daniel sells 'em
to somebody else,

350
00:17:41,377 --> 00:17:42,802
and that's the way
the world rolls.

351
00:17:42,954 --> 00:17:46,022
So actually I'm helping
two or three people.

352
00:17:48,568 --> 00:17:50,234
Yeah.

353
00:17:54,816 --> 00:17:56,574
- One?
- One.

354
00:18:04,233 --> 00:18:05,399
Good heavy crab.

355
00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:08,477
Yeah. All good crab right there.

356
00:18:08,571 --> 00:18:10,088
Mainly what I'm doing today

357
00:18:10,315 --> 00:18:12,998
is grading these crabs
and sizing them,

358
00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:14,667
putting different sizes
in different buckets.

359
00:18:14,761 --> 00:18:17,987
You have your big number ones.
They good and heavy.

360
00:18:18,005 --> 00:18:21,841
You got your lighter ones,
little bit smaller ones.

361
00:18:21,935 --> 00:18:23,326
Then you got your kites.

362
00:18:23,419 --> 00:18:25,511
A kite is just
a real light crab,

363
00:18:25,663 --> 00:18:28,681
and they use that
for gumbo crabs and stuff.

364
00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:31,500
They all sell different,
so you have to divide them up.

365
00:18:31,519 --> 00:18:33,427
Crabbing's a lot of work.

366
00:18:33,521 --> 00:18:34,904
Yeah. A lot of work.

367
00:18:39,935 --> 00:18:42,787
Nothing in there. [laughs]

368
00:18:50,538 --> 00:18:52,279
Sometimes it's a lot of work
for nothing.

369
00:18:52,298 --> 00:18:53,297
Yeah.

370
00:18:56,694 --> 00:18:58,970
Ooh. Three.

371
00:19:05,052 --> 00:19:06,535
I used to crab.

372
00:19:06,629 --> 00:19:08,312
Me and my father-in-law
used to crab.

373
00:19:08,539 --> 00:19:12,875
And we'd run 500 pots
every morning.

374
00:19:12,968 --> 00:19:16,154
This is my crab puller, my arms.

375
00:19:16,381 --> 00:19:18,990
We would pull these crab pots
up by hand.

376
00:19:19,141 --> 00:19:21,808
Mr. Sung Ly
got an automatic puller,

377
00:19:21,828 --> 00:19:23,903
so that thing is pretty neat.

378
00:19:24,055 --> 00:19:26,055
If I had one of them,
I might still be crabbing.

379
00:19:26,148 --> 00:19:28,666
Just throw your string in there
and it sucks it off the bottom.

380
00:19:28,893 --> 00:19:31,060
You grab it, empty it,
put the bait in it,

381
00:19:31,153 --> 00:19:32,912
throw it back,
and on to the next one.

382
00:19:33,064 --> 00:19:35,006
It's a lot of work.
Crabbing's a lot of work.

383
00:19:35,157 --> 00:19:36,174
A lot, a lot of work.

384
00:19:39,237 --> 00:19:42,513
Any kind of fishing's a lot
of work if you do it right.

385
00:19:59,757 --> 00:20:03,183
<i>43 miles north,
in Lake Fausse Pointe,</i>

386
00:20:03,203 --> 00:20:06,262
<i>after barely making it
to their hunting grounds,</i>

387
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,949
<i>Joey and Zak are racing
to run their lines</i>

388
00:20:10,101 --> 00:20:12,710
<i>before they get trapped.</i>

389
00:20:12,937 --> 00:20:14,787
- Look right here, pop.
- The trees?

390
00:20:14,939 --> 00:20:16,789
This is how much
the water dropped this morning

391
00:20:16,941 --> 00:20:18,107
since we been out here.

392
00:20:18,125 --> 00:20:19,700
- A whole foot?
- You see where it's wet?

393
00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:20,943
Yeah.

394
00:20:21,036 --> 00:20:22,369
That's how much
the water dropped

395
00:20:22,388 --> 00:20:24,780
since we been out here
this morning, bubba.

396
00:20:24,873 --> 00:20:26,224
We catching a few alligators.

397
00:20:26,375 --> 00:20:27,558
We gotta make fast time.

398
00:20:27,710 --> 00:20:28,968
We gotta hurry
and get outta here.

399
00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,043
Yeah.

400
00:20:30,063 --> 00:20:31,378
It's dropping.

401
00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:33,305
We don't wanna
get hung up back here.

402
00:20:33,399 --> 00:20:35,882
All you gotta do is look
how fast the water's moving.

403
00:20:35,902 --> 00:20:37,793
That's how fast she's falling.

404
00:20:37,812 --> 00:20:39,386
She's running through here.

405
00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:41,722
I'm seeing that the water marks
while we are out here

406
00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,574
that the bank
and the water's falling.

407
00:20:43,726 --> 00:20:46,986
You can see what was wet
and was dry.

408
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,305
Now we taking a chance
loading the boat with alligators

409
00:20:49,323 --> 00:20:50,414
and then we gotta come out.

410
00:20:50,641 --> 00:20:52,583
It's gonna be a hard day
and a rough day,

411
00:20:52,735 --> 00:20:54,159
but we have lines out.

412
00:20:54,312 --> 00:20:55,736
We have to get it done.

413
00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:57,162
Off the edge, you see it?

414
00:20:57,257 --> 00:20:58,998
That's him, Zak?

415
00:20:59,150 --> 00:21:00,591
Yeah. Head's up
right there.

416
00:21:00,743 --> 00:21:03,094
- Yeah.
- That's him.

417
00:21:06,173 --> 00:21:08,415
Watch yourself, pop.

418
00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:09,767
Look at all them bubbles here.

419
00:21:09,918 --> 00:21:12,061
Yeah, a lot of 'em.

420
00:21:16,442 --> 00:21:17,850
I can almost reach that.

421
00:21:18,002 --> 00:21:19,259
Got it.

422
00:21:19,353 --> 00:21:20,444
- All right?
- Oh, yeah.

423
00:21:22,189 --> 00:21:23,406
He's a big boy.

424
00:21:24,951 --> 00:21:27,934
- What? Oh, yeah.
- Oh, yeah, he's big.

425
00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:29,620
- Oh!
- Whoa.

426
00:21:31,349 --> 00:21:34,107
Oh, watch it.
Don't get him in the motor!

427
00:21:34,201 --> 00:21:36,127
Don't get him in the motor!

428
00:21:36,278 --> 00:21:38,796
You got him or he got you?

429
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:42,358
Oh, yeah!

430
00:21:42,376 --> 00:21:43,542
Aah!

431
00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:44,877
Man-eater.

432
00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:46,429
Give me a shot.

433
00:21:48,474 --> 00:21:49,598
Whoa.

434
00:21:53,313 --> 00:21:54,219
Give me a shot.

435
00:21:54,314 --> 00:21:56,129
Here he comes.

436
00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:58,482
Ooh, come on.

437
00:22:01,988 --> 00:22:04,655
[gunshot]

438
00:22:07,051 --> 00:22:08,492
- What?
- Nice one.

439
00:22:10,071 --> 00:22:11,996
Oh, that's a nub.

440
00:22:12,223 --> 00:22:14,406
<i>Joey and Zak
continue their hot streak,</i>

441
00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:15,833
<i>landing a 10-footer.</i>

442
00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:19,170
That's how you do it.

443
00:22:19,321 --> 00:22:21,063
We got a little color
in the boat.

444
00:22:21,156 --> 00:22:22,673
Yeah, baby.
Look at that thing.

445
00:22:22,825 --> 00:22:24,249
<i>But Joey's concerned</i>

446
00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:27,345
<i>their success might end up
being a problem.</i>

447
00:22:27,572 --> 00:22:29,347
I'm excited
that we catching well

448
00:22:29,574 --> 00:22:32,165
and I'm happy
that we doing that good,

449
00:22:32,259 --> 00:22:34,334
but it's also a concern of mine

450
00:22:34,354 --> 00:22:37,429
because I think that if we
keep catching 'em like this,

451
00:22:37,582 --> 00:22:40,524
we may have issues to come home.

452
00:22:40,676 --> 00:22:43,252
And we don't wanna sleep in
the swamp, we wanna come home.

453
00:22:43,270 --> 00:22:46,105
We're stacking them up
pretty heavy.

454
00:22:46,199 --> 00:22:49,367
Water's dropping fast.

455
00:22:49,518 --> 00:22:51,184
We may be in trouble.

456
00:22:51,204 --> 00:22:53,019
If we catch
too many alligators today,

457
00:22:53,114 --> 00:22:54,330
we gonna be in trouble.

458
00:23:07,053 --> 00:23:08,869
<i>Back in Bryson,</i>

459
00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:12,539
<i>Willie and Little Willie
are banking on the low water</i>

460
00:23:12,633 --> 00:23:14,183
<i>to flush out the giants.</i>

461
00:23:15,878 --> 00:23:17,544
They got a lot of fish
right here.

462
00:23:17,638 --> 00:23:19,230
They got so many in here,
look at where they going across

463
00:23:19,381 --> 00:23:20,956
that back of that dike
right there.

464
00:23:21,049 --> 00:23:22,883
See them trails going up
that hill?

465
00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:25,069
That's alligator trails.

466
00:23:28,241 --> 00:23:29,407
Off the sides of Bryson,

467
00:23:29,634 --> 00:23:30,908
you got main bayous
that come in.

468
00:23:31,135 --> 00:23:32,743
The water drains
all down to that main hole.

469
00:23:34,972 --> 00:23:36,639
That's where
all your fish is at,

470
00:23:36,657 --> 00:23:38,307
and that's where all
your alligators gonna be at.

471
00:23:38,325 --> 00:23:40,251
They gonna come
to where the food's at.

472
00:23:40,478 --> 00:23:41,644
When it's that low,
that's to our advantage.

473
00:23:41,662 --> 00:23:42,878
That means we can catch 'em.

474
00:23:44,757 --> 00:23:46,072
You see that?

475
00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:47,758
- All them bubbles right there?
- Yeah.

476
00:23:51,264 --> 00:23:52,838
What is this?

477
00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:55,491
Waves coming out right there,
out from that grass.

478
00:23:55,584 --> 00:23:57,935
Yeah, that's a alligator,
or something.

479
00:24:02,333 --> 00:24:03,774
That's what I was about to say.

480
00:24:15,179 --> 00:24:16,102
Yeah, big one.
Get your hook.

481
00:24:16,122 --> 00:24:17,362
Yeah, that's him right there.

482
00:24:17,515 --> 00:24:18,581
There's one right there
for sure.

483
00:24:21,127 --> 00:24:22,609
Back up a little bit
from the steering wheel

484
00:24:22,703 --> 00:24:23,794
when you throw it, son.

485
00:24:28,042 --> 00:24:30,468
See some bubbles underneath
the boat right here.

486
00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:34,363
He turned around.
I watched him turn around.

487
00:24:34,456 --> 00:24:35,698
He's right there
against the bank.

488
00:24:35,791 --> 00:24:37,366
See his back up in there
against the bank?

489
00:24:37,384 --> 00:24:39,977
He's right beside that log.

490
00:24:41,296 --> 00:24:42,646
Right beside that log.

491
00:24:50,156 --> 00:24:52,138
Grab it, son, grab it.

492
00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:53,899
Oh, that's a bull.

493
00:24:54,051 --> 00:24:55,284
He gonna pull hard.

494
00:24:57,330 --> 00:24:58,387
What the hell?

495
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,122
Don't let him get back there.

496
00:25:01,408 --> 00:25:02,833
Here it goes, here it goes.

497
00:25:04,987 --> 00:25:06,504
- Big gator.
- Big gator.

498
00:25:08,323 --> 00:25:10,341
Gonna have to watch him.

499
00:25:27,434 --> 00:25:28,859
[both laugh]

500
00:25:33,941 --> 00:25:35,699
Loading the boat up.

501
00:25:35,851 --> 00:25:37,684
That is how it's done.

502
00:25:37,778 --> 00:25:40,262
<i>With another impressive catch,</i>

503
00:25:40,281 --> 00:25:42,022
<i>it looks like Willie's
decision to come to Bryson</i>

504
00:25:42,041 --> 00:25:43,165
<i>is paying off.</i>

505
00:25:44,769 --> 00:25:46,101
Oh, Lord!

506
00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,545
When you hook a big one

507
00:25:47,772 --> 00:25:49,529
and you snatch back
and he snatches you forward,

508
00:25:49,623 --> 00:25:51,048
instead of you going back,

509
00:25:51,275 --> 00:25:52,608
you know you've got
something on the line

510
00:25:52,701 --> 00:25:54,385
that's worth putting on a tag.

511
00:25:54,612 --> 00:25:56,295
And I hope Willie's hands
are doing a lot better.

512
00:25:56,447 --> 00:26:00,115
Because back in Bryson,
they'll make him learn.

513
00:26:00,134 --> 00:26:02,059
They'll make a believer
out of him.

514
00:26:16,892 --> 00:26:20,319
<i>27 miles south,
Leron and Porkchop</i>

515
00:26:20,413 --> 00:26:23,247
<i>are navigating through
a swamp minefield.</i>

516
00:26:23,398 --> 00:26:26,066
Whoa, whoa.
Hold up there, cuz.

517
00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:27,810
What the hell?

518
00:26:27,828 --> 00:26:29,161
Back us up.

519
00:26:29,313 --> 00:26:31,146
When I'm driving that boat
on low water,

520
00:26:31,239 --> 00:26:32,923
I know how dangerous it is.

521
00:26:33,150 --> 00:26:36,168
And from experience,
I be extra-careful.

522
00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:37,428
I know what to look for.

523
00:26:37,579 --> 00:26:39,263
You're still
gonna hit something,

524
00:26:39,414 --> 00:26:42,157
but you hit it on the right
amount of speed, you're good.

525
00:26:42,176 --> 00:26:44,326
You gotta respect these swamps.

526
00:26:44,419 --> 00:26:47,087
You know, when that water's low,

527
00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:48,497
you gotta respect it,

528
00:26:48,515 --> 00:26:49,998
because you got
a ton of stuff down there

529
00:26:50,017 --> 00:26:53,444
that can hurt you
by just traveling in a boat.

530
00:26:53,595 --> 00:26:55,838
Whew! All right.

531
00:26:55,856 --> 00:26:58,282
Let's go see what
we got over there, cuz.

532
00:27:00,102 --> 00:27:01,619
Oh, we got one over there.

533
00:27:03,364 --> 00:27:05,180
Yeah, coming in hot.

534
00:27:05,273 --> 00:27:07,199
Hold up here. Slow it down.

535
00:27:07,351 --> 00:27:10,185
Slow it down.
Slow it down, cuz.

536
00:27:10,278 --> 00:27:12,129
Let me see something there.

537
00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:15,758
It's hung up, cuz.

538
00:27:17,470 --> 00:27:20,120
Big gator, man.
See right there?

539
00:27:20,139 --> 00:27:21,472
No, I got this here.
You see that pole?

540
00:27:21,699 --> 00:27:22,306
Don't put your hand
in that water, man!

541
00:27:22,457 --> 00:27:23,641
Move outta the way.

542
00:27:23,792 --> 00:27:24,642
Don't put your hand
in that water.

543
00:27:26,479 --> 00:27:28,036
Hey, bro, don't do that.

544
00:27:28,055 --> 00:27:29,647
You see the hook?

545
00:27:29,874 --> 00:27:30,981
No.

546
00:27:31,133 --> 00:27:32,465
Come around this tree
right here.

547
00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:34,376
Get back, get back.

548
00:27:34,395 --> 00:27:35,819
Cuz, don't put your hand
in that water.

549
00:27:39,216 --> 00:27:43,051
- It's a gator, man.
- Let me see.

550
00:27:43,070 --> 00:27:45,162
Whoo! Whoo!

551
00:27:46,573 --> 00:27:47,998
Whoo! Nice one there, cuz.

552
00:27:51,729 --> 00:27:53,653
Whoo! Whoo!

553
00:27:53,673 --> 00:27:55,839
Lemme get it right, cuz.

554
00:27:57,677 --> 00:27:58,676
Get him, cuz, get him.

555
00:28:00,495 --> 00:28:02,179
Gotta shoot him.

556
00:28:08,688 --> 00:28:10,145
Good shot, boy.

557
00:28:12,340 --> 00:28:14,358
Another one down, cuz.

558
00:28:14,509 --> 00:28:16,101
All right, that's it.

559
00:28:16,253 --> 00:28:19,922
All right, now look right there.
You pull him.

560
00:28:19,940 --> 00:28:21,347
I got a leg.

561
00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:23,516
<i>Landing this nine-footer
wasn't easy,</i>

562
00:28:23,610 --> 00:28:27,520
<i>but veteran hunter Leron
knows the risk was worth it.</i>

563
00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:31,709
When that gator gets stuck
down there on them cypress,

564
00:28:31,936 --> 00:28:35,695
I mean, it's a huge
pain in the butt, you know.

565
00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:39,049
And if you're not built
for this, it's scary as hell.

566
00:28:39,276 --> 00:28:41,443
But we out here
alligator hunting.

567
00:28:41,462 --> 00:28:43,036
I know what's down there
in that water.

568
00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,297
Nobody put a gun to my head
to do it.

569
00:28:45,449 --> 00:28:47,966
But Porkchop always, "Man, don't
stick your hand in the water.

570
00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:48,967
Don't do that."

571
00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:50,543
It's like, Porkchop,

572
00:28:50,563 --> 00:28:51,878
sometimes you gotta do
what you gotta do

573
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:53,397
to make it happen.

574
00:28:53,624 --> 00:28:55,548
Thought I had to put
my boxing gloves on

575
00:28:55,642 --> 00:28:57,125
with you just now, man.

576
00:28:57,144 --> 00:29:00,571
You try to make me get my hand
out of that water.

577
00:29:00,722 --> 00:29:04,908
That's right.
Looking out for you, cuz.

578
00:29:19,908 --> 00:29:23,168
<i>10 miles away, in Pierre Part,</i>

579
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,505
<i>Troy and Pickle
are tracking the colossal gator</i>

580
00:29:26,657 --> 00:29:28,673
<i>known as Grand Betaille.</i>

581
00:29:28,826 --> 00:29:32,269
Look at the size of them tracks.

582
00:29:32,496 --> 00:29:34,162
We don't normally see
a lot of signs

583
00:29:34,256 --> 00:29:35,922
along the bayou
of Grand Betaille

584
00:29:35,941 --> 00:29:38,942
because he don't come out
other than in the springtime.

585
00:29:39,094 --> 00:29:41,186
But right now
the water's so low,

586
00:29:41,338 --> 00:29:44,597
I'm seeing giant tracks along
the bank, and I know it's him.

587
00:29:44,691 --> 00:29:46,283
You can see where they climbing

588
00:29:46,510 --> 00:29:47,785
up and down on the bank
right there.

589
00:29:47,936 --> 00:29:49,361
They got it wore out.

590
00:29:49,455 --> 00:29:52,197
This is our little small
window of opportunity.

591
00:29:52,349 --> 00:29:54,607
Pee-wee and I are gonna
take advantage of this.

592
00:29:54,627 --> 00:29:57,869
Can you tell if they got one
on that next line over there?

593
00:29:58,022 --> 00:29:59,279
Look like I see something, huh?

594
00:29:59,373 --> 00:30:01,114
Right there, right there.

595
00:30:01,133 --> 00:30:04,092
We got something, Pee-wee.
I just saw the water splash.

596
00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:07,471
Until you pick up that line,

597
00:30:07,698 --> 00:30:09,765
you don't know
what's on the end of it.

598
00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:17,773
It's making a lot of bubbles.

599
00:30:20,468 --> 00:30:22,820
This is a good alligator,
I guarantee you.

600
00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:33,813
Whoo! It's a big one.
Get the gun, get the gun!

601
00:30:33,907 --> 00:30:35,290
Hurry, hurry, hurry.

602
00:30:37,394 --> 00:30:38,335
Whoa.

603
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:47,970
Whoo!

604
00:30:49,998 --> 00:30:51,256
Shoot him!

605
00:30:51,408 --> 00:30:53,575
Give me a shot.
You gotta give me a shot.

606
00:30:53,594 --> 00:30:54,977
Oh, oh, oh.

607
00:30:58,916 --> 00:31:00,082
Oh, yeah.

608
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:01,099
Oh, he's rolling, he's rolling.

609
00:31:01,193 --> 00:31:02,693
Shoot him! Shoot!

610
00:31:06,365 --> 00:31:08,323
[gunshot]

611
00:31:09,593 --> 00:31:12,018
Good shot, Pee-wee.

612
00:31:12,037 --> 00:31:15,097
Man, you're getting good
with that gun, huh?

613
00:31:15,115 --> 00:31:17,708
That's a big one,
but that's not him, Pee-wee.

614
00:31:17,859 --> 00:31:20,118
- Ready? One, two, three.
- One, two, three.

615
00:31:20,270 --> 00:31:21,953
Oh, yeah.

616
00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:25,774
<i>At 10 feet long,
this is an impressive catch,</i>

617
00:31:25,792 --> 00:31:28,460
<i>but it's not the quarry
Troy's after.</i>

618
00:31:28,554 --> 00:31:30,888
I can't believe that ain't him.
That thing is huge.

619
00:31:31,115 --> 00:31:33,949
Pee-wee and I gonna do
whatever we gotta do

620
00:31:33,967 --> 00:31:35,300
to catch this big alligator.

621
00:31:35,452 --> 00:31:37,452
This thing is giant, he's black,

622
00:31:37,471 --> 00:31:38,896
he's gonna be full of slime.

623
00:31:39,047 --> 00:31:42,307
Real slimy
from living in the swamp.

624
00:31:42,459 --> 00:31:44,793
We gonna get this alligator
one way or another.

625
00:31:44,811 --> 00:31:46,069
We have to.

626
00:31:46,296 --> 00:31:47,553
I won't be able
to live with myself

627
00:31:47,573 --> 00:31:49,389
if we don't get him right now.

628
00:31:49,483 --> 00:31:52,634
Might be 10 more years before
we get another chance at him.

629
00:31:52,653 --> 00:31:54,653
That's a nice gator,
but that ain't him.

630
00:31:54,805 --> 00:31:56,988
When we gonna catch him,
you gonna know it's him.

631
00:31:57,141 --> 00:31:58,749
Believe me.

632
00:32:08,168 --> 00:32:09,760
<i>Back in Franklin,</i>

633
00:32:09,987 --> 00:32:13,338
<i>Bruce traded in his gator lines
for crab traps</i>

634
00:32:13,490 --> 00:32:16,508
<i>as he helps a fellow fisherman
get back on his feet.</i>

635
00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:19,269
[speaking Asian language]

636
00:32:21,589 --> 00:32:23,106
That's your cousin over there?

637
00:32:24,184 --> 00:32:26,109
- Nephew.
- Mm-hmm.

638
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,614
He talks back and forth
to his nephew,

639
00:32:30,765 --> 00:32:32,432
checks on his nephew,

640
00:32:32,526 --> 00:32:33,784
and a little while later,

641
00:32:34,011 --> 00:32:34,767
his nephew will call back,
check on him.

642
00:32:34,787 --> 00:32:36,119
They're just making sure

643
00:32:36,271 --> 00:32:38,346
everybody's all right
out there on the water.

644
00:32:38,365 --> 00:32:40,123
Water's dangerous out there.

645
00:32:40,350 --> 00:32:42,626
Not bad.

646
00:32:42,777 --> 00:32:46,797
Feels good to have a fishing
buddy out there, for sure.

647
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:48,966
So where you from?

648
00:32:55,382 --> 00:32:57,457
- Oh.
- Yeah, born in Vietnam.

649
00:32:57,476 --> 00:32:58,550
South Vietnam.

650
00:32:58,702 --> 00:32:59,884
How long you been here?

651
00:32:59,979 --> 00:33:02,128
Uh, 32 years.

652
00:33:02,222 --> 00:33:03,796
- 32 years.
- Yup.

653
00:33:03,890 --> 00:33:06,224
A lot of these Southeast Asians

654
00:33:06,376 --> 00:33:08,226
come here from the Vietnam War,

655
00:33:08,378 --> 00:33:11,321
and they become shrimpers,
crabbers, and fishermen,

656
00:33:11,548 --> 00:33:12,897
just like they was
in their homeland.

657
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:14,640
One good one.

658
00:33:14,735 --> 00:33:17,219
They Louisiana people now.

659
00:33:17,312 --> 00:33:20,646
<i>Following the fall of Saigon
in 1975,</i>

660
00:33:20,741 --> 00:33:23,725
<i>nearly 150,000 refugees,</i>

661
00:33:23,744 --> 00:33:26,061
<i>many of which
were women and children,</i>

662
00:33:26,154 --> 00:33:28,063
<i>fled Vietnam and Cambodia</i>

663
00:33:28,081 --> 00:33:30,732
<i>for a better life
in the United States.</i>

664
00:33:30,825 --> 00:33:32,676
<i>Thousands of these refugees</i>

665
00:33:32,903 --> 00:33:35,012
<i>settled along the coast
of Louisiana,</i>

666
00:33:35,239 --> 00:33:37,663
<i>where they could work
as commercial fishermen</i>

667
00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:39,808
<i>like they did in their homeland.</i>

668
00:33:41,261 --> 00:33:42,744
You been doing this
for about 20 years?

669
00:33:42,837 --> 00:33:45,355
Yeah, about 20 years.
20 years.

670
00:33:53,699 --> 00:33:55,657
How did you learn how to crab?

671
00:34:01,098 --> 00:34:02,330
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah, I have two boats.

672
00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:08,286
Yeah.

673
00:34:08,438 --> 00:34:10,288
Mr. Sung Ly seems like
a pretty happy fellow

674
00:34:10,382 --> 00:34:11,623
all the time.

675
00:34:11,775 --> 00:34:13,383
He likes what he's doing,
you know.

676
00:34:13,535 --> 00:34:15,385
I guess that's what he's done
his whole life.

677
00:34:15,537 --> 00:34:18,704
His daddy's done it.
His daddy's daddy done it.

678
00:34:18,724 --> 00:34:20,057
They just hard-working people.

679
00:34:20,284 --> 00:34:21,541
That's all they are,
hard-working people.

680
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,635
About how many traps
you run a day usually?

681
00:34:23,787 --> 00:34:27,472
- About 500 traps.
- 500? Whoo.

682
00:34:27,624 --> 00:34:29,900
Crabbing's a rough life.
It's just a lot of work.

683
00:34:32,963 --> 00:34:34,237
Yeah.

684
00:34:46,643 --> 00:34:50,478
<i>24 miles north,
in Lake Fausse Pointe,</i>

685
00:34:50,497 --> 00:34:53,665
<i>Joey and Zak are rushing
to run their lines</i>

686
00:34:53,817 --> 00:34:55,650
<i>before the water drops too low</i>

687
00:34:55,743 --> 00:34:57,761
<i>and they're trapped
in the swamp.</i>

688
00:34:57,912 --> 00:35:01,431
Look at the roots.
Look at 'em all.

689
00:35:01,583 --> 00:35:03,749
That water's
running through here.

690
00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:06,419
The current, dang.

691
00:35:06,513 --> 00:35:08,254
Dude, I don't know.

692
00:35:08,348 --> 00:35:10,941
Boat's riding really low.

693
00:35:11,092 --> 00:35:14,444
The water's dropping so fast,
Zak and I have to move fast

694
00:35:14,671 --> 00:35:16,762
and we have to get
these alligators killed

695
00:35:16,782 --> 00:35:18,115
and we have to get outta here.

696
00:35:18,342 --> 00:35:21,509
Losing this much water this fast
is bad news.

697
00:35:21,603 --> 00:35:23,528
If Zak and I don't move fast,

698
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,105
we may not be able
to come out of the swamp.

699
00:35:26,199 --> 00:35:27,958
Line's down, bubba.

700
00:35:33,023 --> 00:35:34,614
Right there.

701
00:35:34,708 --> 00:35:36,299
That's a solid alligator.

702
00:35:37,861 --> 00:35:39,636
Hope he's not wrapped up.

703
00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:47,702
He's good.

704
00:35:47,721 --> 00:35:49,437
Ohh.

705
00:35:54,544 --> 00:35:56,153
Oh, my God!

706
00:35:56,304 --> 00:35:58,488
Whoa! He's pulling the boat.
Come on.

707
00:35:58,715 --> 00:36:00,215
Whoa.

708
00:36:00,308 --> 00:36:02,993
He's trying to get in the boat?

709
00:36:06,890 --> 00:36:07,572
Pull him up!

710
00:36:07,908 --> 00:36:09,499
Shoot, pop, shoot!

711
00:36:11,003 --> 00:36:12,627
[gunshot]

712
00:36:14,731 --> 00:36:16,322
- Nice!
- Bring him up.

713
00:36:16,416 --> 00:36:17,674
- Sucking water.
- Yeah.

714
00:36:17,901 --> 00:36:20,010
I'm not messing
with these things anymore.

715
00:36:21,738 --> 00:36:23,663
He's bigger than you think.

716
00:36:23,757 --> 00:36:25,807
Come on, little nub.

717
00:36:27,077 --> 00:36:28,076
Good job.

718
00:36:28,094 --> 00:36:31,688
Another big, big, big boy.

719
00:36:31,839 --> 00:36:33,690
- Yeah.
- Nice, man.

720
00:36:33,841 --> 00:36:36,584
<i>This 11-footer
put up a good fight,</i>

721
00:36:36,603 --> 00:36:39,512
<i>but Joey knows the biggest
battle of the day</i>

722
00:36:39,531 --> 00:36:41,031
<i>is yet to come.</i>

723
00:36:41,258 --> 00:36:43,942
The more you catch,
the worse it is

724
00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:47,204
because this ditch is shallow
and the water's falling.

725
00:36:47,431 --> 00:36:49,206
And if the bottom of the boat
touches,

726
00:36:49,357 --> 00:36:51,115
I don't know how
we gonna come outta here.

727
00:36:51,210 --> 00:36:54,044
You know, usually I wanna fill
as many tags as I can,

728
00:36:54,271 --> 00:36:56,454
but right now
with this water falling,

729
00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:58,030
whatever's on the line,
we gonna get that killed

730
00:36:58,124 --> 00:36:59,791
and try to get outta here.

731
00:36:59,943 --> 00:37:03,035
We gotta hurry up and get these
gators caught and get back.

732
00:37:03,055 --> 00:37:04,888
Because fast
like the water's dropping,

733
00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:06,848
I don't know
if we gonna make it out.

734
00:37:16,142 --> 00:37:17,567
<i>Meanwhile, in Bryson,</i>

735
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,736
<i>the Edwards are treble hooking</i>

736
00:37:19,887 --> 00:37:21,796
<i>the behemoths that
come out of their holes</i>

737
00:37:21,815 --> 00:37:23,631
<i>when the water drops.</i>

738
00:37:23,650 --> 00:37:25,633
See how muddy this bank is?

739
00:37:25,652 --> 00:37:27,652
That's a big alligator
coming out here,

740
00:37:27,804 --> 00:37:28,653
back and forth in here.

741
00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:30,705
It's muddy, too.

742
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,736
That tells you
what they got in that area.

743
00:37:36,830 --> 00:37:38,588
Back off in them woods, if you
got a little pothole back there,

744
00:37:38,740 --> 00:37:40,665
that water gets hot
in that pothole,

745
00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:42,759
and he don't like staying
in that kind of water.

746
00:37:48,508 --> 00:37:51,175
That tells me they got
big alligators back there,

747
00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:53,770
and that's all I'm after
is straight big alligators.

748
00:37:53,921 --> 00:37:55,438
[imitating baby gator]

749
00:38:00,762 --> 00:38:02,737
[imitating baby gator]

750
00:38:09,121 --> 00:38:10,528
This big old thing

751
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,580
been coming through this ditch
right over here.

752
00:38:20,023 --> 00:38:22,206
See where his track
went in the ground.

753
00:38:22,359 --> 00:38:24,876
That's his tail dragging.

754
00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:28,363
And that's the slide where
he been coming in and out.

755
00:38:28,381 --> 00:38:30,473
He's way bigger than anything
we got in the boat right now.

756
00:38:33,036 --> 00:38:34,311
Yeah, that's a big old gator
right there.

757
00:38:37,557 --> 00:38:40,708
- Bet he's 12-foot for sure.
- He's in there?

758
00:38:40,802 --> 00:38:41,818
He's out of there right now.

759
00:38:45,807 --> 00:38:48,733
<i>Willie's tracking skills
are unmatched in the swamp,</i>

760
00:38:48,885 --> 00:38:51,828
<i>and he knows there's
a prized gator close by.</i>

761
00:38:53,314 --> 00:38:54,998
We got one right here, Willie.

762
00:38:55,225 --> 00:38:57,000
Got some bubbles right here
gonna come up.

763
00:38:57,227 --> 00:39:00,670
He's right here somewhere.
Right out there.

764
00:39:07,754 --> 00:39:09,679
Yeah, that's a big one.

765
00:39:16,930 --> 00:39:18,355
We'll take him.

766
00:39:36,099 --> 00:39:37,832
[gunshot]

767
00:39:43,865 --> 00:39:45,030
You gonna go up?
Come on up with him.

768
00:39:45,125 --> 00:39:47,050
Grab his head. I got him.

769
00:39:47,201 --> 00:39:50,128
<i>Willie's strategy to use
the low water to his advantage</i>

770
00:39:50,222 --> 00:39:51,554
<i>is paying off.</i>

771
00:39:51,781 --> 00:39:53,965
Yeah, I want an alligator
bigger than that.

772
00:39:54,059 --> 00:39:57,802
<i>But the veteran swamper
isn't satisfied just yet.</i>

773
00:39:57,954 --> 00:40:00,212
Going to Bryson,
I wanna catch 10-foot and up.

774
00:40:00,232 --> 00:40:02,047
I mean, the alligators are huge.

775
00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:04,550
I like to catch the biggest
thing they got back there.

776
00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:07,145
But when you treble hooking,
you can't tell what it is.

777
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,572
I mean, you can be trying
to hook for a 10, 11-footer

778
00:40:09,724 --> 00:40:11,241
or 12, 13, 14-footer,

779
00:40:11,392 --> 00:40:12,984
but you wind up getting
an eight-footer, nine-footer.

780
00:40:13,136 --> 00:40:14,652
You never know what size he is

781
00:40:14,804 --> 00:40:16,746
until you actually get him up
and see him.

782
00:40:16,898 --> 00:40:19,732
Look at that now.
That's how it's done.

783
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:22,252
I'm still looking
for that 12 or bigger.

784
00:40:32,413 --> 00:40:34,264
<i>Back in Pierre Part,</i>

785
00:40:34,491 --> 00:40:36,991
<i>Troy and Pickle
are still on the hunt</i>

786
00:40:37,010 --> 00:40:40,511
<i>for a legendary gator
that rules this bayou.</i>

787
00:40:40,605 --> 00:40:43,164
Pee-wee, this is where
the Grand Betaille is at.

788
00:40:43,257 --> 00:40:44,182
This is the swamp he lives in.

789
00:40:44,334 --> 00:40:45,758
Mm-hmm.

790
00:40:45,777 --> 00:40:48,019
<i>And with the current
water conditions,</i>

791
00:40:48,171 --> 00:40:50,521
<i>they might finally have
a chance to catch him.</i>

792
00:40:50,674 --> 00:40:52,173
He ain't got
no water back there.

793
00:40:52,192 --> 00:40:53,524
He ain't got nowhere to go.

794
00:40:53,618 --> 00:40:56,344
It's about 1,000 acres,
1,500 acres right here

795
00:40:56,362 --> 00:40:58,513
that you can never get in.

796
00:40:58,531 --> 00:41:00,606
Now he's got to come to us.

797
00:41:00,625 --> 00:41:02,684
He's got to come out.

798
00:41:02,702 --> 00:41:06,204
This alligator,
we named him Grand Betaille

799
00:41:06,356 --> 00:41:08,447
the first year
when we seen him 10 years ago.

800
00:41:08,467 --> 00:41:10,115
I would've never dreamed

801
00:41:10,210 --> 00:41:12,469
that we'd still be chasing
this alligator 10 years later.

802
00:41:12,620 --> 00:41:16,639
I know he's living right here,
so this is our opportunity.

803
00:41:16,791 --> 00:41:18,933
Oh, I see the line moving
a little bit.

804
00:41:36,069 --> 00:41:38,161
- Alligator?
- Yeah, got one.

805
00:41:38,388 --> 00:41:39,478
Hunh!

806
00:41:39,572 --> 00:41:40,830
- What?
- It's a good one.

807
00:41:40,982 --> 00:41:42,332
- A good one?
- Yeah.

808
00:41:48,398 --> 00:41:50,081
That's a big gator.

809
00:41:50,233 --> 00:41:53,901
Whoo, I think that's him.

810
00:41:53,995 --> 00:41:56,346
He's gonna pop the line.
I can't--

811
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,575
I can't see the head.

812
00:42:00,593 --> 00:42:02,018
There he goes.
He popped it.

813
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:14,030
Motherfricker.

814
00:42:18,762 --> 00:42:20,036
I see some bubbles that way.
You see 'em?

815
00:42:20,263 --> 00:42:21,445
Where?

816
00:42:21,598 --> 00:42:23,039
I smell him.

817
00:42:26,378 --> 00:42:27,785
We lost a big one.

818
00:42:27,937 --> 00:42:30,288
I knew we was going after
Grand Betaille,

819
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,125
and I knew we'd be lucky
to have one chance at him,

820
00:42:34,219 --> 00:42:35,610
and he got away from us.

821
00:42:35,628 --> 00:42:36,961
Because the water's so low,

822
00:42:37,113 --> 00:42:39,280
we might have a chance again,

823
00:42:39,299 --> 00:42:40,965
but we gonna be lucky if we do.

824
00:42:41,059 --> 00:42:43,208
If you miss that first chance,
you're really screwed.

825
00:42:43,228 --> 00:42:45,544
It is what it is.

826
00:42:45,638 --> 00:42:48,064
Won't pay to cry about it.

827
00:42:51,811 --> 00:42:56,130
<i>Meanwhile, Leron and Porkchop
have been catching well so far,</i>

828
00:42:56,223 --> 00:42:57,965
<i>but the trees
beneath the surface</i>

829
00:42:57,984 --> 00:43:00,134
<i>are putting them in peril.</i>

830
00:43:00,153 --> 00:43:03,913
Porkchop, look like...
like we riding

831
00:43:04,065 --> 00:43:06,249
- in inches of water, buddy.
- Man.

832
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:07,900
Got the jack plate
all the way up,

833
00:43:07,919 --> 00:43:09,586
got the motor trim
all the way up.

834
00:43:09,737 --> 00:43:11,162
Yeah, look at that.

835
00:43:11,256 --> 00:43:14,482
You know, and we barely
getting through here, man.

836
00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:17,409
Yeah, that water low, baby.

837
00:43:17,429 --> 00:43:19,429
When you get out there on
the water with that low level,

838
00:43:19,580 --> 00:43:22,915
the challenge is when that water
level low, we catching good.

839
00:43:23,009 --> 00:43:26,661
And when our boat fill up like
that and the water level low,

840
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:28,179
man, it's too much weight
in the boat.

841
00:43:28,273 --> 00:43:31,332
Man, you get stuck back there,
it's hard, man,

842
00:43:31,351 --> 00:43:33,351
'cause ain't nobody
know you're back there.

843
00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:35,686
Get in there.

844
00:43:35,839 --> 00:43:39,282
I am. See what I'm kicking up
behind us there.

845
00:43:41,435 --> 00:43:42,619
That's why I'm coming in here.

846
00:43:42,846 --> 00:43:45,455
I got better eyes than you,
Porkchop.

847
00:43:45,606 --> 00:43:47,865
- Man, shut up, shut up.
- [laughs]

848
00:43:48,017 --> 00:43:49,626
Man, come on, where you going?

849
00:43:49,777 --> 00:43:53,296
Come on, don't get on top
of him, cuz. Back up.

850
00:43:57,377 --> 00:44:00,119
Do what you do, Porkchop.

851
00:44:00,138 --> 00:44:02,454
Get ready now, cousin.

852
00:44:02,548 --> 00:44:05,124
Watch yourself, cuz.

853
00:44:05,143 --> 00:44:06,643
Already got a big winner
here already.

854
00:44:08,629 --> 00:44:10,647
Oh. Watch it.
Hold up. Hold up.

855
00:44:12,317 --> 00:44:14,317
- Whoa!
- Whoo!

856
00:44:14,468 --> 00:44:16,319
Hold him, cuz.

857
00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:19,471
Whoo-hoo!

858
00:44:19,565 --> 00:44:21,491
That what you wanted, eh?

859
00:44:28,892 --> 00:44:30,241
Come on.

860
00:44:30,393 --> 00:44:32,168
He gonna wrap around
the motor, cuz. Hold on!

861
00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:37,840
Come on! Come on!

862
00:44:38,067 --> 00:44:39,467
Whoo!

863
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:41,511
What you waitin' on?

864
00:44:44,924 --> 00:44:46,140
Whoo. Gimme some.

865
00:44:50,930 --> 00:44:52,747
Just like that.

866
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,358
All right.
Hold on, big boy.

867
00:44:55,585 --> 00:44:57,694
You hold him tight.
Just hold that.

868
00:44:57,921 --> 00:45:00,254
Don't worry about him
being a big boy.

869
00:45:00,273 --> 00:45:02,590
Worry about flipping
his big ass over.

870
00:45:02,683 --> 00:45:05,350
All right, we got the head in.

871
00:45:05,370 --> 00:45:06,703
Hold on.
Let me get the other leg.

872
00:45:06,854 --> 00:45:08,020
I got this, boy.

873
00:45:08,114 --> 00:45:09,539
<i>This 12-foot colossus</i>

874
00:45:09,766 --> 00:45:11,615
<i>is a great way
to finish the day,</i>

875
00:45:11,710 --> 00:45:13,601
<i>and for Leron,</i>

876
00:45:13,619 --> 00:45:16,862
<i>it's proof that all
the struggles were worth it.</i>

877
00:45:16,956 --> 00:45:18,456
We did real good today.

878
00:45:18,550 --> 00:45:19,716
It started off...

879
00:45:21,961 --> 00:45:23,794
And, you know,
at the end of the day,

880
00:45:23,947 --> 00:45:26,630
it was way better
than the way it started off,

881
00:45:26,725 --> 00:45:28,725
and that's how alligator
hunting's supposed to be.

882
00:45:28,952 --> 00:45:30,785
You know,
it makes you come out there,

883
00:45:30,878 --> 00:45:33,045
not knowing what to expect.

884
00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:34,731
It's a challenge.

885
00:45:34,958 --> 00:45:37,458
That will make you
a real alligator hunter.

886
00:45:37,477 --> 00:45:39,218
We gotta move it on on, cuz.

887
00:45:39,237 --> 00:45:43,130
I know you can't go too fast,
but go as fast as we can.

888
00:45:43,149 --> 00:45:45,199
Ooh, man.

889
00:45:56,996 --> 00:45:59,404
<i>Meanwhile, in Franklin,</i>

890
00:45:59,499 --> 00:46:04,910
<i>Bruce is seeing the lasting
impact of Hurricane Ida.</i>

891
00:46:05,004 --> 00:46:07,989
See? Nothing.
Nothing there.

892
00:46:08,007 --> 00:46:09,824
Look like the storm
affected a lot of the crab.

893
00:46:09,842 --> 00:46:12,935
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The water, you know, the water.

894
00:46:13,087 --> 00:46:14,512
Yeah, the water's
kind of bad over here.

895
00:46:14,664 --> 00:46:16,847
Yeah, real bad, bad.

896
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,165
See, this crab just died.

897
00:46:18,184 --> 00:46:19,942
Yeah, see?

898
00:46:21,428 --> 00:46:23,946
You get all the waves
and the wind...

899
00:46:24,098 --> 00:46:26,674
Wind changes everything
on the bottom.

900
00:46:26,692 --> 00:46:28,192
- People don't see it.
- Right, right, right.

901
00:46:28,344 --> 00:46:31,103
Everything changes.
Nothing.

902
00:46:31,122 --> 00:46:33,289
- The bottom not good, you know.
- Yup.

903
00:46:36,686 --> 00:46:41,205
It might take a month or two
for this to get right again.

904
00:46:41,357 --> 00:46:43,691
When we have a storm like this,
a big storm,

905
00:46:43,784 --> 00:46:45,134
it just--
It messes everybody up.

906
00:46:45,286 --> 00:46:46,803
So that's why we do--

907
00:46:47,030 --> 00:46:48,638
We just come out of the woodwork
and start helping.

908
00:46:48,789 --> 00:46:49,972
Everybody helps everybody.

909
00:46:50,124 --> 00:46:51,532
We're getting some traps

910
00:46:51,625 --> 00:46:53,384
that don't have nothin' in them.

911
00:46:53,478 --> 00:46:54,626
They'll be dead crabs.

912
00:46:54,646 --> 00:46:56,145
Just after a storm like this,

913
00:46:56,297 --> 00:46:57,980
shakes the bottom up pretty bad.

914
00:47:01,319 --> 00:47:03,319
It's just a struggle right here,

915
00:47:03,470 --> 00:47:04,821
so I think what we gonna do,
we gonna switch spots.

916
00:47:05,048 --> 00:47:06,823
He got more crab pots
further down.

917
00:47:06,974 --> 00:47:08,157
We gonna go run them.

918
00:47:11,162 --> 00:47:14,997
- Well, got one, huh?
- Yeah.

919
00:47:15,224 --> 00:47:18,000
I'm thinking the water
is a lot better over here.

920
00:47:19,412 --> 00:47:21,003
Look better.

921
00:47:22,248 --> 00:47:23,989
How much will you get for that?

922
00:47:24,083 --> 00:47:25,566
- Oh, that box?
- Yeah.

923
00:47:25,585 --> 00:47:27,234
- About $200.
- Oh, really?

924
00:47:27,253 --> 00:47:28,235
You might make enough
to cover gas.

925
00:47:28,254 --> 00:47:29,178
Yeah, yeah.

926
00:47:33,926 --> 00:47:35,426
- Really?
- Yeah.

927
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,927
This year, no.

928
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,171
No, this year not good.

929
00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:40,505
Wind's starting to blow
a little bit.

930
00:47:40,525 --> 00:47:41,673
It's gonna get
a little choppy, huh?

931
00:47:41,693 --> 00:47:43,008
Yeah.

932
00:47:43,027 --> 00:47:44,085
I know he can't
come out here by himself

933
00:47:44,103 --> 00:47:45,528
and do this by himself,

934
00:47:45,755 --> 00:47:47,421
so that makes me feel good
that I'm helping him.

935
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,031
But these waves is starting
to pick up out here.

936
00:47:49,258 --> 00:47:50,941
Mr. Sung Ly's starting
to kind of worry about it.

937
00:47:51,094 --> 00:47:52,443
We got a good many crabs.

938
00:47:52,595 --> 00:47:54,929
I think he can go on to the dock
and sell them.

939
00:47:54,947 --> 00:47:56,372
At least he gonna make
a few dollars.

940
00:47:58,859 --> 00:48:00,209
- No problem, no problem.
- All right.

941
00:48:02,046 --> 00:48:03,546
But we gotta keep going.

942
00:48:04,883 --> 00:48:06,123
- Tomorrow will be better.
- Yeah.

943
00:48:06,217 --> 00:48:07,383
Hopefully.

944
00:48:11,890 --> 00:48:15,132
<i>Meanwhile, in Bryson,
Willie and Little Willie</i>

945
00:48:15,284 --> 00:48:18,043
<i>have been loading up the boat
with 10-footers,</i>

946
00:48:18,062 --> 00:48:19,878
<i>but they're expecting
even better</i>

947
00:48:19,972 --> 00:48:21,455
<i>from their favorite honey hole.</i>

948
00:48:21,474 --> 00:48:23,048
Them alligators always come

949
00:48:23,067 --> 00:48:25,309
to this back corner right here
and right over there.

950
00:48:25,461 --> 00:48:27,478
It's what we had to do last
year, wash 'em out of here.

951
00:48:27,572 --> 00:48:28,738
Hold on, now.

952
00:48:30,299 --> 00:48:31,574
Uh-huh.

953
00:48:32,818 --> 00:48:34,818
We normally go back

954
00:48:34,971 --> 00:48:37,638
to catch all the 11-footers
you wanna get your hands on.

955
00:48:37,731 --> 00:48:38,915
They got monsters back there,

956
00:48:39,066 --> 00:48:40,399
something that'll
size up the boat,

957
00:48:40,418 --> 00:48:42,734
something that you don't see
every day.

958
00:48:42,754 --> 00:48:44,645
It's a total different ballgame.

959
00:48:44,664 --> 00:48:46,330
Yeah, you catch
a 10-foot alligator.

960
00:48:46,482 --> 00:48:48,649
People call that humongous.

961
00:48:48,742 --> 00:48:50,167
But we're hoping
to come back here

962
00:48:50,319 --> 00:48:51,743
and catch way bigger than that.

963
00:48:51,763 --> 00:48:54,672
See where them bubbles
is at over there?

964
00:48:54,766 --> 00:48:57,249
Throw your treble hook
out there if that's his bubbles.

965
00:48:57,268 --> 00:49:00,603
- That's his bubbles.
- Yup.

966
00:49:05,351 --> 00:49:06,442
What you got out there?

967
00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:11,781
Eh? He got off?

968
00:49:14,285 --> 00:49:16,410
Ooh, yeah.

969
00:49:21,701 --> 00:49:23,084
- That's an alligator.
- Watch him right here.

970
00:49:30,134 --> 00:49:32,784
We got a big one.

971
00:49:32,878 --> 00:49:34,470
Don't pull that hook out.

972
00:49:56,828 --> 00:49:58,719
- Talking about a big one.
- There we go.

973
00:49:58,738 --> 00:50:01,388
<i>After hunting all day,
Willie and Little Willie</i>

974
00:50:01,407 --> 00:50:04,667
<i>have finally landed
their Bryson beast.</i>

975
00:50:04,818 --> 00:50:07,061
Oh, this thing
got a big old head.

976
00:50:07,079 --> 00:50:10,064
<i>But the hunters still need to
navigate through a shallow cut</i>

977
00:50:10,082 --> 00:50:12,341
<i>in order to make it back home.</i>

978
00:50:16,405 --> 00:50:18,180
Man.

979
00:50:20,076 --> 00:50:21,408
Damn.
[motor grinds]

980
00:50:21,502 --> 00:50:24,928
Might not be able to get out.

981
00:50:25,081 --> 00:50:26,764
Coming back out,
we got a load on the boat,

982
00:50:26,858 --> 00:50:29,025
and it's sunk down in the water,
a foot and a half, two foot,

983
00:50:29,252 --> 00:50:30,693
and you ain't got
but a foot of water.

984
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,086
Come on.

985
00:50:32,104 --> 00:50:34,530
Let's go, baby.

986
00:50:37,927 --> 00:50:40,036
Too shallow.

987
00:50:40,187 --> 00:50:41,445
Too much weight in the ass end.

988
00:50:41,597 --> 00:50:43,205
When you put your weight
in the back of the boat,

989
00:50:43,357 --> 00:50:45,616
you're drawing too much water
and your foot's down in the mud

990
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:47,543
and you can't get out and run it
like you're supposed to.

991
00:50:49,363 --> 00:50:52,790
Yeah, we gonna have to get
the alligators out the back.

992
00:50:52,942 --> 00:50:55,609
Grab them by the head
and swing them this way.

993
00:50:55,628 --> 00:50:57,111
Put them all against the front.

994
00:50:57,129 --> 00:50:58,946
Once you put your weight
in the front of the boat,

995
00:50:58,964 --> 00:51:00,205
get all the weight toward
the front of the boat,

996
00:51:00,299 --> 00:51:01,706
it'll push a wave,

997
00:51:01,726 --> 00:51:03,951
and you'll break over
on top of that wave

998
00:51:03,969 --> 00:51:05,227
and it'll pick the foot up.

999
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,482
<i>- The shallow channel...</i>
- I got it, Willie.

1000
00:51:18,634 --> 00:51:21,410
<i>and a full boat
is a recipe for disaster.</i>

1001
00:51:21,637 --> 00:51:23,704
There we go!

1002
00:51:28,311 --> 00:51:30,311
<i>But thanks to some
clever maneuvering,</i>

1003
00:51:30,404 --> 00:51:32,421
<i>the Bryson gamble pays off.</i>

1004
00:51:32,648 --> 00:51:33,923
I didn't think
we was gonna make it,

1005
00:51:34,150 --> 00:51:36,241
but, uh, it paid off
going back there.

1006
00:51:36,260 --> 00:51:40,096
We caught some big alligators
and brought my size up.

1007
00:51:40,247 --> 00:51:42,598
And I was tickled
when we got outta there.

1008
00:51:51,609 --> 00:51:54,110
<i>Back in Pierre Part,</i>

1009
00:51:54,261 --> 00:51:59,006
<i>Troy and Pickle are regrouping
after losing Grand Betaille.</i>

1010
00:51:59,099 --> 00:52:00,841
Look real good along the bank

1011
00:52:00,860 --> 00:52:02,767
for that big one
we lost earlier.

1012
00:52:02,862 --> 00:52:07,123
<i>The King of the Swamp knows
his target is still nearby.</i>

1013
00:52:07,274 --> 00:52:08,958
Big alligator's never
gonna die in the water.

1014
00:52:09,109 --> 00:52:11,943
He's gonna get on a log
or crawl on the bank and die.

1015
00:52:11,963 --> 00:52:15,539
Might be our only chance for
the next 20 years to catch him

1016
00:52:15,691 --> 00:52:17,800
if we--
You know what I'm saying?

1017
00:52:18,027 --> 00:52:19,284
You can't afford
to let a alligator like this

1018
00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:21,119
get away from you.

1019
00:52:21,213 --> 00:52:24,715
He's not gonna keep giving us
them opportunities, you know.

1020
00:52:24,867 --> 00:52:26,958
We messing up big time.

1021
00:52:26,978 --> 00:52:29,645
He slipped away from us
twice already.

1022
00:52:29,872 --> 00:52:32,873
He might not take the bait
again forever.

1023
00:52:32,966 --> 00:52:36,043
Oh, look,
we got one on that line.

1024
00:52:36,136 --> 00:52:37,802
Look at the water splashing.

1025
00:52:37,822 --> 00:52:38,896
That might be him.

1026
00:52:38,990 --> 00:52:40,214
Might be.

1027
00:52:40,307 --> 00:52:42,307
- Might be him.
- I hope so.

1028
00:52:42,326 --> 00:52:44,827
Oh, yeah, look like a good one.

1029
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,164
Look like a good one?
You saw him?

1030
00:52:48,315 --> 00:52:51,167
Yeah, I saw his head.

1031
00:52:51,394 --> 00:52:54,503
All right, Pee-wee,
show him who's the boss.

1032
00:53:01,420 --> 00:53:04,087
That's him, Pee-wee! That's him!
That's Grand Betaille!

1033
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:05,681
Don't let it go,
whatever you do.

1034
00:53:05,908 --> 00:53:07,165
We got him.

1035
00:53:07,185 --> 00:53:09,018
Hold on to him, Pee-wee,
hold on to him.

1036
00:53:09,245 --> 00:53:10,186
We got him.

1037
00:53:15,359 --> 00:53:16,859
Whoo! Don't panic.

1038
00:53:17,086 --> 00:53:19,269
Yeah, don't panic.
Rolling, he's rolling.

1039
00:53:19,422 --> 00:53:20,587
Oh, Lord, oh, Lord.

1040
00:53:20,606 --> 00:53:22,531
Let him go, let him go,
let him go.

1041
00:53:22,683 --> 00:53:24,683
He's gonna pop it.
If he rolls, he's gonna pop it.

1042
00:53:24,777 --> 00:53:26,017
We gotta shoot him.

1043
00:53:26,037 --> 00:53:30,097
This alligator
is a pain in my behind.

1044
00:53:30,115 --> 00:53:34,543
He goes back under,
likes to rip my fingers off,

1045
00:53:34,695 --> 00:53:38,956
so I let the rope go,
which is a big, huge no-no.

1046
00:53:39,108 --> 00:53:42,701
He is not so much as
Mr. Troy's problem anymore.

1047
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:43,944
He's starting to be
my problem, too,

1048
00:53:44,037 --> 00:53:46,204
and I'm tired of losing him.

1049
00:53:46,224 --> 00:53:48,390
I have to take him out,
and I have a vendetta now.

1050
00:53:50,210 --> 00:53:51,727
Show him who's the boss.

1051
00:53:54,306 --> 00:53:57,066
Get him, Pee-wee, get him.

1052
00:53:57,217 --> 00:53:59,384
Want me to fight him?
You got him?

1053
00:53:59,403 --> 00:54:01,478
- You got him?
- Yeah, I got him.

1054
00:54:01,572 --> 00:54:04,481
Bring him up, bring him up,
bring him up, Pee-wee.

1055
00:54:04,575 --> 00:54:06,984
- Just need to go for it.
- That's a freaking dinosaur.

1056
00:54:07,136 --> 00:54:09,394
Don't move, don't move, don't--

1057
00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,396
Bring him up, bring him up,
bring him up.

1058
00:54:11,490 --> 00:54:14,065
I hate to lose this gator.

1059
00:54:14,085 --> 00:54:15,751
You gotta get him!

1060
00:54:15,902 --> 00:54:16,827
You ready?

1061
00:54:16,921 --> 00:54:18,328
Watch him, watch him!

1062
00:54:18,481 --> 00:54:20,923
[gunshot]

1063
00:54:21,074 --> 00:54:23,241
Whoo, Pee-wee!

1064
00:54:23,261 --> 00:54:25,761
Man, you turning
into a killing machine.

1065
00:54:30,342 --> 00:54:31,508
Tell me when you're ready.

1066
00:54:31,660 --> 00:54:33,269
- One, two, three.
- One, two, three.

1067
00:54:36,274 --> 00:54:38,774
Thank you, Jesus.

1068
00:54:38,925 --> 00:54:40,592
Pull that towards you.

1069
00:54:40,611 --> 00:54:44,338
I don't know how Pee-wee
held on to that giant alligator,

1070
00:54:44,356 --> 00:54:46,615
but she did.

1071
00:54:48,119 --> 00:54:50,268
You know,
I'm so pumped up right now,

1072
00:54:50,288 --> 00:54:52,846
words can't describe
how pumped up I am

1073
00:54:52,865 --> 00:54:56,292
after 10 years of waiting
to catch this alligator.

1074
00:54:56,443 --> 00:54:58,201
That's him,
that's him, baby girl.

1075
00:54:58,354 --> 00:55:00,687
- We finally got him.
- We got him!

1076
00:55:00,781 --> 00:55:01,964
I ain't never seen one that big.

1077
00:55:02,115 --> 00:55:03,632
I'm so glad we caught him.

1078
00:55:03,784 --> 00:55:06,618
This thing been here
for years and years and years.

1079
00:55:06,637 --> 00:55:08,211
If that stops pumping you up,

1080
00:55:08,306 --> 00:55:10,639
you might as well just quit
fishing 'cause... Lord.

1081
00:55:14,553 --> 00:55:16,203
<i>In Lake Fausse Pointe,</i>

1082
00:55:16,296 --> 00:55:18,630
<i>with the water falling fast,</i>

1083
00:55:18,724 --> 00:55:21,800
<i>Joey and Zak are trying
to make it out of the swamp</i>

1084
00:55:21,819 --> 00:55:26,563
<i>through a shallow canal
with a boatload of gators.</i>

1085
00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:29,158
Oh, no, pop, it's looking
a little shallow back there.

1086
00:55:35,057 --> 00:55:36,239
I bet we'll be all right.

1087
00:55:36,392 --> 00:55:38,167
And if we're not,
who's pulling the boat?

1088
00:55:38,394 --> 00:55:39,835
You.

1089
00:55:41,063 --> 00:55:43,005
We had a really good day
hunting,

1090
00:55:43,232 --> 00:55:44,898
but we got our work
cut out for us.

1091
00:55:44,917 --> 00:55:46,825
The battle ain't over yet.

1092
00:55:46,844 --> 00:55:49,236
We're fixing to try to come out
of this shallow ditch.

1093
00:55:49,254 --> 00:55:50,587
I'm worried.

1094
00:55:50,739 --> 00:55:52,514
This is not looking good for us.

1095
00:55:52,741 --> 00:55:54,016
Send it.

1096
00:56:06,755 --> 00:56:08,179
Come up.

1097
00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:10,032
Send it, send it,
send it, send it, send it.

1098
00:56:16,615 --> 00:56:18,189
Ah!

1099
00:56:18,209 --> 00:56:20,709
I feel like the whole
"send it" part didn't work out.

1100
00:56:20,936 --> 00:56:22,544
I tried.

1101
00:56:24,382 --> 00:56:25,455
We're stuck, pop.

1102
00:56:25,549 --> 00:56:28,175
What we gonna do?

1103
00:56:33,039 --> 00:56:34,372
Don't look at me like that.

1104
00:56:34,392 --> 00:56:35,224
Don't even look at me.

1105
00:56:35,375 --> 00:56:36,950
I'll pay for the pedicure.

1106
00:56:37,043 --> 00:56:38,060
Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate you.

1107
00:56:38,211 --> 00:56:39,286
I'll pay for the pedicure.

1108
00:56:39,304 --> 00:56:40,729
I don't want you to pay for it.

1109
00:56:40,881 --> 00:56:42,731
I just want you
to do it yourself.

1110
00:56:42,883 --> 00:56:43,715
- No.
- Yeah?

1111
00:56:43,809 --> 00:56:47,144
- No. No.
- Damn it.

1112
00:56:47,296 --> 00:56:49,405
Oh, my God, we messed up.

1113
00:56:49,556 --> 00:56:51,148
We got this boatload
of alligators.

1114
00:56:51,242 --> 00:56:53,817
Now we're stuck.

1115
00:56:53,969 --> 00:56:58,472
My boat can probably float
in six inches of water empty.

1116
00:56:58,565 --> 00:57:00,082
But if you have
a thousand pounds

1117
00:57:00,233 --> 00:57:03,477
of alligators on the boat,
it's bad.

1118
00:57:03,570 --> 00:57:05,254
Would it be better if I drag it?

1119
00:57:05,481 --> 00:57:06,755
You can try.

1120
00:57:08,759 --> 00:57:10,592
Whew.

1121
00:57:19,753 --> 00:57:22,496
It's like back in college.

1122
00:57:22,514 --> 00:57:24,422
This sucks.

1123
00:57:24,442 --> 00:57:26,850
This thing ain't going anywhere.

1124
00:57:27,002 --> 00:57:29,019
Sure it gets better
once you get in there.

1125
00:57:29,171 --> 00:57:31,672
We got to drag this boat
across this sandbar

1126
00:57:31,765 --> 00:57:33,190
or we ain't gonna make it out.

1127
00:57:33,284 --> 00:57:36,860
[Zak grunting]

1128
00:57:37,012 --> 00:57:39,029
The boat's heavier
than it looks.

1129
00:57:39,123 --> 00:57:41,014
I know it is.

1130
00:57:41,033 --> 00:57:43,959
You're really not helping
with that little stick.

1131
00:57:44,110 --> 00:57:44,960
No, I'm helping.

1132
00:57:45,187 --> 00:57:46,520
[Zak laughs]

1133
00:57:46,538 --> 00:57:48,188
I'm helping.

1134
00:57:48,281 --> 00:57:49,206
If I step on
a 12-foot alligator,

1135
00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:50,357
can you please shoot it?

1136
00:57:50,375 --> 00:57:51,633
They don't have enough water

1137
00:57:51,860 --> 00:57:53,860
to hold a 12-foot alligator
right there.

1138
00:57:53,879 --> 00:57:54,861
Starting to sink.

1139
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,640
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.

1140
00:57:58,867 --> 00:58:00,309
No!

1141
00:58:00,460 --> 00:58:01,885
Come on, man.

1142
00:58:02,037 --> 00:58:03,795
That alligator ain't big enough
to mess with you.

1143
00:58:03,889 --> 00:58:06,373
[scoffs]
Think there's 200 pounds

1144
00:58:06,391 --> 00:58:08,299
that you can get rid of
in the boat?

1145
00:58:08,319 --> 00:58:11,970
- Maybe help push or pull?
- Oh, I'm good.

1146
00:58:11,989 --> 00:58:15,549
[Joey laughs]

1147
00:58:15,567 --> 00:58:18,643
The boat is still floating
a little bit,

1148
00:58:18,662 --> 00:58:20,887
but somebody's gotta pull
the boat while I drive the boat.

1149
00:58:20,981 --> 00:58:23,499
Imma just bump it with the motor

1150
00:58:23,650 --> 00:58:25,834
and try to get
a little bit to help him.

1151
00:58:26,061 --> 00:58:28,319
I'm really worried
we may be stuck back here

1152
00:58:28,413 --> 00:58:29,838
for the rest of the night.

1153
00:58:32,843 --> 00:58:35,235
That did a whole lot of nothing.

1154
00:58:35,254 --> 00:58:37,513
Feel like we might not make it.

1155
00:58:40,242 --> 00:58:41,575
[exhales]

1156
00:58:41,668 --> 00:58:43,744
If you can just
get me past this spot,

1157
00:58:43,762 --> 00:58:46,522
once I get to that spot,
I can work it.

1158
00:58:46,673 --> 00:58:49,432
I don't have anything
to dig into.

1159
00:58:49,585 --> 00:58:52,919
Zak's pulling
and we making a little ground.

1160
00:58:52,938 --> 00:58:54,271
Thank God he's a young man.

1161
00:58:54,365 --> 00:58:56,532
There you go.

1162
00:58:56,759 --> 00:58:57,866
You enjoying your vacation
up there?

1163
00:58:58,093 --> 00:58:59,609
Good.

1164
00:58:59,762 --> 00:59:01,928
Three years ago,
I don't think he'd ever do that,

1165
00:59:01,947 --> 00:59:04,447
but he's progressed
as a deckhand and a swamper.

1166
00:59:04,542 --> 00:59:07,358
Now he's a horse.

1167
00:59:07,452 --> 00:59:10,453
Aah! It's called manpower.

1168
00:59:10,548 --> 00:59:12,864
No damn horse.

1169
00:59:12,958 --> 00:59:14,291
Starting to get deeper.

1170
00:59:14,443 --> 00:59:16,777
Good job.

1171
00:59:16,870 --> 00:59:19,888
I'm good.
You can get in.

1172
00:59:20,115 --> 00:59:21,539
Damn it.

1173
00:59:21,633 --> 00:59:23,892
<i>Zak's hard work pays off</i>

1174
00:59:24,044 --> 00:59:27,804
<i>as the hunters barely make it
through the shallow passage.</i>

1175
00:59:27,898 --> 00:59:30,065
I'm relieved that we got
this boat out of there.

1176
00:59:30,292 --> 00:59:31,958
We had a good day
alligator hunting,

1177
00:59:32,052 --> 00:59:34,403
but I don't think we'll be able
to hunt this again this season.

1178
00:59:34,630 --> 00:59:36,963
It's over for this season.
Not enough water.

1179
00:59:37,057 --> 00:59:39,724
We made it, son.
Thank God.

1180
00:59:39,818 --> 00:59:41,318
Only a few leeches.

1181
00:59:41,412 --> 00:59:44,079
- You got a few leeches on you?
- Yeah, a few.

1182
00:59:44,230 --> 00:59:45,914
- That's good.
- A little workout.

1183
00:59:46,066 --> 00:59:47,398
That's all we can do.

1184
00:59:47,492 --> 00:59:49,476
Let's go home, baby.

1185
00:59:49,569 --> 00:59:52,646
My toenails feel
so uncomfortable.

1186
00:59:52,664 --> 00:59:55,882
[both laugh]

1187
00:59:59,671 --> 01:00:01,004
<i>Back in Pierre Part...</i>

1188
01:00:01,098 --> 01:00:03,673
Mmm. Smells good.

1189
01:00:03,826 --> 01:00:07,661
<i>The Landrys are celebrating
a successful day of hunting</i>

1190
01:00:07,679 --> 01:00:10,922
<i>by having a family meal
with a swamp twist.</i>

1191
01:00:10,941 --> 01:00:12,515
Hog spaghetti.

1192
01:00:12,668 --> 01:00:14,517
People call it wild boar.

1193
01:00:14,670 --> 01:00:16,594
- Boar.
- Wild boar spaghetti.

1194
01:00:16,688 --> 01:00:21,358
But besides wild boar spaghetti,
we got award-winning cornbread.

1195
01:00:21,510 --> 01:00:23,360
[laughs] Award-winning.

1196
01:00:23,512 --> 01:00:26,121
To me, there's nothing more
important than your family.

1197
01:00:27,850 --> 01:00:29,791
I don't want no success

1198
01:00:29,943 --> 01:00:31,701
if I can't share it
with my family

1199
01:00:31,854 --> 01:00:33,629
and my kids and my grandkids.

1200
01:00:33,780 --> 01:00:35,372
Try that, bubba. Here.

1201
01:00:35,524 --> 01:00:37,633
Boy, that's some good stuff,
huh, bubba?

1202
01:00:37,784 --> 01:00:39,025
Ridge, be careful now.

1203
01:00:39,044 --> 01:00:41,544
Get you a cup of water
when you eat.

1204
01:00:41,697 --> 01:00:43,972
Ridge, get him some water.
Hurry, hurry.

1205
01:00:44,124 --> 01:00:45,715
- I don't need no water.
- Hurry.

1206
01:00:45,868 --> 01:00:47,458
What, Mama?

1207
01:00:47,552 --> 01:00:51,480
Isn't that the best cornbread
you ever ate in your life?

1208
01:00:51,631 --> 01:00:53,798
I need water.

1209
01:00:53,817 --> 01:00:55,542
[laughs]

1210
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:57,544
That's what you live for,
your family.

1211
01:00:57,562 --> 01:01:00,138
You all right?
What happened, Ridge?

1212
01:01:00,157 --> 01:01:01,657
He ate the cornbread.

1213
01:01:01,808 --> 01:01:02,991
Hey, hurry up
and drink your water

1214
01:01:03,143 --> 01:01:04,809
so don't dehydrate.

1215
01:01:04,828 --> 01:01:07,979
What's the use of being
successful and getting somewhere

1216
01:01:07,998 --> 01:01:10,073
if you don't have somebody
to share it with?

1217
01:01:10,167 --> 01:01:12,742
Oh, no! Oh, no!

1218
01:01:12,895 --> 01:01:14,060
Don't choke.

1219
01:01:14,079 --> 01:01:15,504
[all laugh]

1220
01:01:15,731 --> 01:01:17,005
Need something
to moisten up your throat?

1221
01:01:17,232 --> 01:01:18,248
Yeah.

1222
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:19,824
- It scratched you?
- Yeah.

1223
01:01:19,918 --> 01:01:21,251
Let me tell you something.

1224
01:01:21,403 --> 01:01:23,086
I've eaten cornbread
all my life.

1225
01:01:23,180 --> 01:01:25,013
Mine is the best.

1226
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,331
At least Don likes it.
Don got good taste.

1227
01:01:27,426 --> 01:01:29,926
Ain't that the best cornbread
you ever ate in your life?

1228
01:01:30,020 --> 01:01:31,019
That's so good.

1229
01:01:32,748 --> 01:01:35,190
-Do I get my paycheck now?
Mm-hmm, yeah.