Was a great time loading them boys up.
Live from Mississippi.
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It's been a while since I updated this thread with anything of quality. A buddy and I put in each year for mississippi alligator tags and he drew this year. We're allowed one large one over 7 foot and one slot gator between 4 and 7 foot. Season kicked off Friday and we filled the slot gator Saturday night. We're not allowed to use bait so it becomes a game of spotting them and getting close enough to cast a big 12/0 treble hook and snag them then get a harpoon in them with a bigger line.
6 foot female. Which for a female is about average as the. Ig female only get to be 9 foot. Probably 12-15 years old.
6 foot female. Which for a female is about average as the. Ig female only get to be 9 foot. Probably 12-15 years old.
That’ll get the heart racing getting that up close and personal!
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Really a fucking log pic? What you think your a duck hunter? 
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Really a fucking log pic? What you think your a duck hunter?
Yeah I should have done the over the shoulders picture like the instagram hunters. What those pictures don't show you is how bad those bastard stink.
It's like a combination of a musty puffball mushroom and a week old piss jug.
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They're pretty explosive at first but tire quickly. A couple good runs and some rolling at the boat but then they get stoved up. The biologist explained that they build up lactic acid and basically get stiff and sore. I was able to hold its head over the side of the boat and stick a knife behind his head and it didn't even flinch.
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Yesterday started at 3am at the ramp for a 98 mile run offshore to fish for tuna. It was 36 when we left the ramp in an open center console in the dark for a 2.5 hour sprint at 40mph. We got to the grounds and within the first two hours had two blackfin on the boat. We trolled around rigs and mounds for another 100mi and only managed some non-targets like Jack Crevelle, and a bunch of Bonita. We stopped trolling and started chunking which is basically free lining a chunk of cut bait without a weight and throwing a couple handfuls of chucked bait in at the same time. The idea being they'll all drift relatively together and the tuna will come up to feed. That produced a couple of good runs of tuna but every damn one of them got sharked during the fight. I cut half a Bonita on a big hook and threw it back in. The tax man was going to pay. After an hour and 5 wore out fishermen later he finally broke the surface and caught a hot one in the head. My neighbor the boat owner is an avid offshore spearfisheman that dives rigs and for him to say "Holy Shit that's a big ass bull shark" means something. we measured him against the gaf pole and he was a little over 8 feet, we guess around 300lbs. Right before he broke the surface we saw he had a big cobia tailing him and a guy threw a jig and hooked him so we had a big cobia and a bull shark on the line.
All in all it was a cold day but we had great seas, tight lines, and tuna on the boat. We hit the ramp at 6:30pm with everyone wore out. We ran a little over 297 miles total and got to see both a sunrise and sunset over the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
we measured him against the gaf pole and he was a little over 8 feet, we guess around 300lbs. Right before he broke the surface we saw he had a big cobia tailing him and a guy threw a jig and hooked him so we had a big cobia and a bull shark on the line.All in all it was a cold day but we had great seas, tight lines, and tuna on the boat. We hit the ramp at 6:30pm with everyone wore out. We ran a little over 297 miles total and got to see both a sunrise and sunset over the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
triple_duece
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Glad yall had a nice trip. Some days the fish give, and some days not. Caught a few and had some tight lines so that was good. 300 miles on water is like me driving to Ohio and back without stopping. Bet you slept good last night 
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, and 40* in a CC running in the ocean, badass and cold lol.