Early Saturday, an alligator was caught by a group of Alabama Hunters. The Monster gator as what they have referred it weighed over a thousand pounds and was fifteen feet long.
The Alabama hunters who have caught the said monster gator during the state's alligator hunting season were celebrating the catch of their lifetime. As per reports, the monster gator was tugged from the water in South Alabama early Saturday.
Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries biologists were successful in measuring the alligator but weighing the alligator posed a great challenge. On their first attempt, it destroyed a winch assembly used to weigh average alligators. So they use a backhoe as a last resort to lift the animal. The alligator weighed over a thousand and eleven and a half pounds.
The Monster Gator is the largest by far that was killed legally by the team of Alabama Hunters. It was caught by husband and wife Mandy and John Stokes together with Mandy's brother Kevin Jenkins and Savannah Jenkins and Parker Jenkins, his two teenage children aged sixteen year old and fourteen year old correspondingly, all from Thomaston, Alabama.
The caught covered the preceding record of Keith Fancer and his team who killed a fourteen foot, two inches, and an eight hundred thirty-eight pound alligator from the Alabama River in 2011.
Alligators are endangered animals in Alabama but like in other US states, the Alabama authorities grant licenses for an inconsequential number of hunts every August. The authorities say that it is important to control populations of these gators in areas where they pose a greater risk.
These gators are hunted by using bow or rod and line as an initial hold, and then it will be drawn to the boat using grab hooks, trapped when close and killed with a shotgun or rifle.
The over a thousand pound alligator is the biggest that was caught ever in the state of Alabama by this group of Alabama Hunters.
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